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if you've been dying to see Pixar and VR your wait is over Pixar is the gold standard of animation on the big screen but it has never brought its stories to life in virtual reality before until now Pixar's first VR is set in the world of Coco its upcoming film you can take journeys with people that you can't take in real life and I think you create special kinds of memories that you can't otherwise journalists got a preview in New York the experience takes you into Coco's glimmering land of the dead where we got to dress our skeletons and paint our kolakozhi ends we rode a train through the Pixar metropolis of the Dead you can even take a picture of yourself and a friend as skeletons in VR at a photo booth my CNN colleague and our resident VR addict Scott Stein compares it to virtual Disneyland because you're entering this world that feels like a ride that's yet to be built where you enter this whole world of Coco and it even has this entry world where you know we were setting up at first putting on costumes realizing we could take off our heads thrown our heads back and forth and then it invites you down this doorway and you enter into the expanse of space and that's where we started to feel like you know almost like a mini theme park Pixar's films set a high bar so going into this first attempt at Bieber I was bracing myself to be disappointed but I wasn't when an elevator lifts me above the town square to get a full view of the land of the dead I felt like I was living inside a big star movie here are stepping it effects our film it wasn't the perfect one to do it because the visuals are stunning but in addition to that you're also able to experience things on this that you can't in the film we both had fun exploring the land of the dead for these Easter eggs you can watch a deleted scene and explore concept art for the movie it's like DVD extras but on steroids you can explore the land of the dead yourself starting today on an oculus rift VR headset but even if you don't have a $400 headset you can still check it out Disney is offering sneak peeks at some Disney stores and movie theaters now until the film's release on November 20 seconds a version will also be available for gear VR when the movie opens I spoke to Pixar and they said this is only the beginning the company says it is just starting to crawl when it comes to the art but those are the baby steps before it can walk and then run now that's something worth losing your head over