Former Oculus Co-founder Launches Showrunner AI Entertainment Platform with Amazon Funding
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Edward Saatchi, co-founder of Oculus Story Studio, is launching Showrunner, a generative AI platform for entertainment that recently received funding from Amazon. The platform aims to create AI-generated content and position itself as the 'Netflix of AI'. Saatchi draws from his experience with VR movies at Oculus, which won an Emmy but ultimately failed to gain public traction, leading Meta to shut it down in 2017. He believes Showrunner can succeed where VR entertainment failed by leveraging generative AI technology for content creation.
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· 3 pulledEdward Saatchi knows how hard it can be to sell people on new tech that bills itself as revolutionary
Even though Story Studio snagged an Emmy for one of its three animated features, a general lack of public interest in VR movies led Meta to shutter Oculus Story Studio back in 2017
The VR era has come and gone, but Saatchi is confident that Showrunner, his new pivot to generative AI that just received an influx of cash from Amazon, can succeed
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