Marlon Wayans to host “Oh Hell No!,” a fear-inducting VR series for Meta - REVOLT

Meta’s caller anxiety-inducing bid is conscionable successful clip for Halloween.

On Wednesday (Oct. 19), the tech institution announced its caller virtual world show, “Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans,” acceptable to premiere connected Thursday, Oct. 26. As portion of the series, Marlon Wayans volition situation his personage friends to look their fears head-on utilizing a Meta Quest 2 VR headset.

The six-episode series, produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, volition aerial connected Wednesdays astatine 9 a.m. PT connected the actor’s Facebook and Instagram pages and connected Meta Quest TV. According to Variety, successful each episode, Wayans volition power the antithetic phobias of guests, including Anthony Anderson, Kelly Rowland, Bryce Hall, Nikki Bella and Brie Bella, Loren Gray, and comedian Loni Love. Among the fears are phasmophobia — a fearfulness of ghosts; galeophobia — a fearfulness of sharks; acrophobia — a fearfulness of heights; and zoophobia — fearfulness of animals. 

In a associated statement, Collins, laminitis and CEO of Jesse Collins Entertainment, said: “It has ever been a extremity to enactment with Marlon Wayans, truthful partnering connected this task with Meta is simply a imagination travel true.”

In addition, Wayans said successful the property release: “There’s thing much amusive than horror, pranking, and scaring friends. This amusement has each the above.”

Mina Lefevre, Meta’s caput of improvement and programming, added: “We are thrilled to collaborate with the hilarious and talented Marlon Wayans arsenic helium brings his closest friends face-to-face with their fears acknowledgment to the powerfulness of virtual reality. We’re excited to spouse with Jesse Collins Entertainment to bring these immersive experiences to beingness utilizing Meta Quest 2.”

Two different horror-themed VR experiences person been commissioned by Meta, including Eli Roth’s Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat,” starring Vanessa Hudgens, and a VR acquisition successful Horizon Worlds based connected Jordan Peele’s 2022 film, Nope.

You tin ticker the trailer of “Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans” down below: