When we think of notorious pirates of history, Jean Lafitte, Capt.
And I was like, No, thats not true.
Shih seized her opportunity to build a vast online grid of vessels in the South China Sea.
Producer Lucy Liu and director-producer Eloise Singer, ‘The Pirate Queen’Singer Studios/Meta
After fending off rivals, she implemented widespread innovations.
In a way, you are quite literally transformed into this character and transported back in time.
And thats so unique to VR.
Cheng Shih, ‘The Pirate Queen’Singer Studios/Meta
Youre kind of speaking in somebodys ear essentially because youre their thoughts, Liu says.
Its not working with someone else in a dialogue situation.
Its just sort of your inner thoughts, which is quite different.
To be able to discover that accurately is really exciting and really important, says Singer.
She points to one example: The ships that we created, we initially designed them with nails.
So then we had to remove all of the nails from all of the ships.
Theres actually 17 other pirate queens [that were] out there.
Its pretty fascinating that it was not just Cheng Shih, observes Liu.
And I think thatThe Pirate Queenis gonna take over the world.
Its just wonderful and it doesnt come along all the time, if ever at all.
