Google is shutting down Spotlight Stories, the group tasked not only with pushing forward virtual reality as a storytelling medium, but creating a number of highly polished and thoughtful VR pieces in the process.
A copy of an email written by executive producer Karen Dufilho was obtained by Variety.
“Google Spotlight Stories is shutting its doors after over six years of making stories and putting them on phones, on screens, in VR, and anywhere else we could get away with it,” Dufilho said.
Variety also managed to get confirmation of the studio’s shutdown from a Google spokesperson:
“Since its inception, Spotlight