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These VR Experiences are critical moments in the development of XR. Ranging from apps on your smartphone to fully immersive experiences, they reveal the potential of immersive tech to transform business, education, and entertainment. VR experiences are not about technology, but about creativity, about understanding ourselves as human beings. We are developing a new language of storytelling – immersive stories that will shape the human experience.

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The Best New Year’s Events in VR to Ring in 2021

December 31, 2020
The best New Year's events in VR to ring in 2021.

We all know this is not the year to go anyplace where there are crowds, so here are the best New Year’s events in VR. It’s either flat screens or virtual reality, …

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VR Concert in Notre-Dame with Jean-Michel Jarre

December 31, 2020December 19, 2020
Live VR concert in Notre-Dame de Paris on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2020.

Jean-Michel Jarre returns for his second immersive music event with a VR concert in Notre-Dame on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2020. His first effort, Alone Together, was an innovative attempt to …

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A Harrowing VR Story: Carne y Arena Returns for a Global Tour

November 11, 2020
CARNE y ARENA: A compelling VR Story returns for a global tour fall 2020 and spring 2021.

CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) originally premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in 2017. It was the first VR story featured at the festival, which like most film festivals, …

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David Attenborough’s Fascinating Look at Insects in VR

October 11, 2020
David Attenborough's insects in VR experience is now available for the Oculus Quest. The focus was on the storytelling, not the technology, in creating the project.

David Attenborough never ceases to delight with his innovative use of virtual reality to expand our knowledge of the natural world. His latest project, Micro Monsters, shrinks you down to the micro-level …

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Haptic Feedback Belt Offers Innovative Solution for Immersive Experiences

June 7, 2020
Haptic Feedback Belt from Feelbelt is an ingenious solution to enhance our sense of immersion in VR experiences and music.

Expanding the range of sensations is essential to the development of virtual reality. A new haptic feedback belt from the German company Feelbelt is an innovative solution to the technical challenges. Unlike …

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Sundance: Exploring Movement and Play in VR

February 8, 2020
Exploring movement and play in VR through the Metamorphic VR experience at Sundance.

The Sundance 2020 New Frontier program offered an amazing selection of VR experiences. One of the highlights this year was Metamorphic, an exploration of movement and play in VR. Designed by Lead …

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St. Jude’s Moving VR Memorials for Child Cancer Patients

February 7, 2020December 4, 2019
St. Jude's VR memorials for child cancer patients

Few health organizations are as remarkable as the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, so it’s no surprise to see their VR memorials for child cancer patients. In the past 50 years, they’ve …

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Violinist Lindsey Stirling to do Live Performance in VR

September 21, 2020August 25, 2019
Lindsey Stirling live performance in VR

With virtual reality, artists continue to push the boundaries of art and performance in fascinating ways. Tomorrow (Monday, August 26th), you’ll have the chance to see the incredibly energetic violinist Lindsey Stirling …

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Plunge into Infinite VR Space with Tea for God in the Oculus Quest

February 7, 2020August 16, 2019
Tea for God Infinite VR Space

Let’s face it. An infinite VR space is incredibly compelling. Especially when you live within the confines of a small 19th century New York City apartment. I’ve been playing with the proof-of-concept VR …

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VR in Classical Music – Michel van der Aa’s Breakthrough Project

May 6, 2020July 9, 2019
VR in classical music

As Joshua Barone notes in The New York Times, VR in classical music hasn’t resulted in the most exciting immersive projects. Like other disciplines, both opera and classical music wrestle with how …

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Visualize Code in Virtual Reality

February 6, 2020June 10, 2019
Visualize Code in Virtual Reality

Here’s a fascinating immersive experience that lets you visualize code in virtual reality. It’s a platform from Primitive, a startup that pitched at an HTC venture capital accelerator this week in San …

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Walking on the Moon in VR with Lunatick

May 6, 2020April 17, 2019
Walking on the Moon in VR

Few people have actually walked on the lunar surface – 12 to be exact. Lunatick is your chance to follow in their footsteps and walk on the moon in VR. It’s been 50 …

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The Messy Truth VR Experience wins a Lumiere™ Award

February 1, 2020February 3, 2019
The Messy Truth VR Experience wins a Lumiere™ Award

We’re soaking up all the VR that the Sundance Film Festival has to offer this week and missed the recent Lumiere™ Awards. But it’s worth noting the recognition for Van Jones and Elijah …

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“I Am A Man” VR Experience puts you inside the Civil Rights Movement

February 7, 2020January 21, 2019
A scene from the I am a Man VR Experience

On the holiday celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it’s time to look at the award-winning “I am a Man” VR experience. Set during the African-American Civil Rights Movement, …

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The VR experience Fisherman’s Tale arrives on January 22

February 7, 2020December 16, 2018
The fascinating VR experience Fisherman's Tale arrives on January 22, 2019

If you’re waiting for the deeply creative VR experience Fisherman’s Tale, your wait is almost over. The experience, co-developed by Innerspace VR, and ARTE, the Franco-German TV network, will be released on January 22, …

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Dreamscape Immersive VR arcade opens in Los Angeles

February 6, 2020December 3, 2018
The first Dreamscape Immersive VR arcade opens in Los Angeles

The Dreamscape Immersive VR arcade project showed up in Hollywood last year flush with cash ($30 million) and a vision of what virtual reality could be. Big-name backers included AMC Entertainment, and …

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Discovering Ancient Rome through Virtual Reality

February 6, 2020November 28, 2018
Ancient Rome through Virtual Reality

Ready to discover Ancient Rome through virtual reality? Take a look at the new version of Rome Reborn. It’s an international project dating back to the mid-1990s. But VR has finally caught …

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The amazing SPHERES VR experience is now on Oculus Rift

February 6, 2020November 13, 2018
SPHERES VR Experience now on Oculus

The SPHERES VR experience made news in the spring when it scored the million-dollar-plus deal at the Sundance Film Festival. That distribution agreement had us all guessing when and where it would show …

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EFF’s VR Experience – Spot the Surveillance

February 6, 2020November 5, 2018
EFFs VR experience - Spot the Surveillance

There’s no shortage of applications for Virtual Reality but here a new one – EFF’s VR Experience – Spot the Surveillance. The Electronic Freedom Foundation is using technology in the battle against …

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Everything is Alive: VR and Aboriginal Cultures

February 7, 2020September 5, 2018
Awavena - VR and Aboriginal Culture

Awavena is the most recent project of the Emmy® Award-winning artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth. You may recall that she and her partner Nicole Newnham was behind the remarkable VR experience, Collisions, at …

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Categories Art, VR Experience

Virtual Reality artist live performance at the Louvre Museum in Paris

September 10, 2020August 27, 2018
virtual reality artist live performance

Working under the title, Anna’s Dream Brush, the Virtual Reality artist Anna Zhilyaeva has done fascinating work with Google Tilt Brush. This weekend, a live performance at the Louvre Museum in Paris surfaced on YouTube. …

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David Bowie in VR – The exhibition lives on

May 6, 2020July 24, 2018
David Bowie in VR and AR

The incredible David Bowie Is exhibit may have wrapped up but we’ll soon get to see David Bowie in VR – or at least major parts of the incredibly popular exhibition. After being …

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Categories Future, VR Experience

Diving into the future with Virtual-Virtual Reality

November 18, 2019July 17, 2018
Virtual-Virtual Reality Experience

Jamie Felton in VentureBeat reminds us to take a look at Virtual-Virtual Reality, a surreal VR experience that’s impossible to categorize. Part game, part story, part experience of the future, this is just something …

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Tilt Brush VR update – Google makes it easier for everyone

November 18, 2019June 27, 2018
Tilt Brush VR Update

Google just released a Tilt Brush VR update, making its immersive painting program easier to use for beginners and creatives. We’ve been longtime fans, seeing it as one of the best VR …

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VR and Hollywood – John Cusack & Christina Ricci in ‘Distorted Reality’

November 18, 2019June 20, 2018
VR and Hollywood - John Cusack & Christina Ricci in ‘Distorted Reality’

VR and Hollywood continue to dance around each other as John Cusack & Christina Ricci make their VR debut in ‘Distorted Reality’. The ten minute VR experience is based on the movie ‘Distorted‘ …

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You will soon be an astronaut in Virtual Reality

November 18, 2019May 18, 2018
Astronaut in virtual reality - virtual space tourism

The Guardian has a fascinating piece on space tourism – how you will soon have the opportunity to be an astronaut in Virtual Reality. Even though there’s a number of space tourism …

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Vestige VR Experience Acquired Before World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

March 10, 2020April 19, 2018
Vestige VR Experience debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival

Well, that was fast. The Tribeca Film Festival opened tonight and the Vestige VR experience already got a distribution deal. The emotional room-scale documentary was picked up by the VR distributor and …

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ASU ShapingEDU Humersive Learning Project

Humersive Learning Project - a project that considers human and student experience in the context of emerging technologies and the convergence of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI).-

We’re delighted to announce our ASU ShapingEDU Humersive Learning Project, an actionable exploration of the intersection of humanity and immersive learning and our new roles as Innovators in Residence.

News, Media, and Events

  • Join us at the ShapingEDU Winter Games this week! Lunch Session: Wednesday January 6, 12:30-1:00pm MST for the latest on the Hummersive Learning Project and a breakout session on Thursday, 10:45am MST on "Learning with Emodied Avatars in the Future."

  • Maya Georgieva is quoted in The Economist on Using augmented reality in marketing.

  • Join us today at the iLRN Conference where we'll present as co-authors the Executive Summary of the State of XR Report at 1:00pm (EST), June 23rd - immersively in VirBELA.

  • Maya Georgieva is quoted in The Atlantic It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram on the use of AR during the Coronavirus.

  • Emory Craig did a keynote at the GESSDubai Conference in Dubai, UAE, "Reinventing Learning for the Future: A World of Virtual Reality and AI Avatars."

  • Emory Craig spoke at the XR in Education Summit at Yale University on "The Future of XR."

  • Maya Georgieva was on a panel at the Saleforce conference, "The Evolution and Power of Disruptive Technologies" in San Francisco.

  • We'll be at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago with a Preconference workshop and other sessions the week of October 14th.

  • We'll be at the OC6 conference and reporting on the latest news from Oculus in San Jose on Sept. 25th and 26th.

  • We're on an XR and Learning panel at the The Chronicle of Higher Education and HP Leadership Summit, September 17, 2019, at The City University of New York (CUNY) The Graduate School.

  • We're at several conferences this summer, including AWE, SIGGRAPH 2019, and Singularity University's Global Summit.

  • We're delighted to be joining faculty in the College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University for a full day Professional Development Workshop, "Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Nursing Education." June 2019.

  • Ready for a discussion on "Ethics and Digital Fluency in VR and Immersive Learning Environments"? Join us at the NYS-CIO Conference in June 2019.

Our EDUCAUSE-ELI Series, “VR/AR: Stepping into the New Frontier of Learning”

Article Series: Stepping into the New Frontier of Learning

Here are the articles from our New Frontier of Learning series for the EDUCAUSE Review (and summaries of the articles):

  • From VR and AR to Our XR Future: Transforming Higher Education
  • VR and AR: The Ethical Challenges Ahead
  • VR and AR: The Art of Immersive Storytelling and Journalism
  • VR and AR: Learners as Creators and World Builders of Our Immersive Future
  • VR and AR: Designing Spaces for Immersive Learning
  • VR and AR: Transforming Learning and Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • VR and AR: Driving a Revolution in Medical Education & Patient Care
  • AR and VR in STEM: The New Frontiers in Science
  • A New World: VR and AR Tech Developments
  • Introducing the VR and AR Series: Stepping Into the New Frontier of Learning Series

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AR? VR? XR?

There are multiple terms covering the broad spectrum of immersive technologies from AR, which superimposes data and images on the user’s space to VR, which is a digitally simulated immersive environment where users can look, move around, or interact with virtual space or objects. Mixed Reality (MR) is a hybrid of the physical and the virtual that feels more immersive than AR since digital entities can be occluded by objects in the real world. And then there is XR (or Extended Reality), which is an umbrella concept covering augmented, mixed, and virtual reality. XR does not refer to specific technologies but the entire category of immersive technologies that extend and enhance human experience. 

 

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We offer talks highlighting augmented and virtual reality developments, future trends, design thinking sessions, and provide experiential workshops for education, nonprofit and corporate clients.

About Digital Bodies

Digital Bodies provides news and analysis of VR, AR, and AI and how these developments will impact education and society. The convergence of these technologies will transform how we communicate, learn, understand the world, and ourselves. We focus on a future where experiences will be available on demand, and the boundary between the real and the virtual disappear – and all that these developments imply for education and human experience.  The possibilities are exciting, the ethical challenges profound. 

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