Documentary filmmaker explores the new visual language of virtual reality

When we get our first box of crayons in preschool, the primary rule that the teachers drill into us is to draw within the lines of a flat piece of paper. Our imaginations may be infinite, but our two-dimensional representation of it has a limit that ends at the four borders of a rectangle.

As the Oculus Rift and virtual-reality technology matures, artists whose traditional craft requires respect for the frame are going to find themselves in a new world that expands far beyond the edge of the 2D canvas.