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. The VR experiences here are not about the technology, but about creativity, moments that push innovation forward, that reveal where we are headed in the virtual realm. It’s about bringing a sense of immersion, presence, and interactivity in Virtual Reality.
As new tools and platforms arrive, we are beginning to develop a new language of storytelling – stories that will shape the human experience.
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 complex gloves or bulky …
Read more Haptic Feedback Belt Offers Innovative Solution for Immersive Experiences
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 Artists Matthew Niederhauser, Wesley …
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 helped improve the childhood …
Read more St. Jude’s Moving VR Memorials for Child Cancer Patients
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 do a live performance …
Read more Violinist Lindsey Stirling to do Live Performance in VR
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 experience, Tea for God, …
Read more Plunge into Infinite VR Space with Tea for God in the Oculus Quest
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 to integrate this new …
Read more VR in Classical Music – Michel van der Aa’s Breakthrough Project
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 Francisco. According to the …
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 years since the first …
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 Allan-Blitz’s project, The Messy Truth …
Read more The Messy Truth VR Experience wins a Lumiere™ Award
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, it takes you through …
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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, 2019. Not surprisingly, it’s …
Read more The VR experience Fisherman’s Tale arrives on January 22
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 21st Century Fox, and …
Read more Dreamscape Immersive VR arcade opens in Los Angeles
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 up to the vision …
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 up. We got the …
Read more The amazing SPHERES VR experience is now on Oculus Rift
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 the abuses of technology. …
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 the 2016 Sundance Film …
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. She recreates Eugène Delacroix’s …
Read more Virtual Reality artist live performance at the Louvre Museum in Paris
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 seen by over 2 …
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 you need to step …
Read more Diving into the future with Virtual-Virtual Reality
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 experiences available. We never …
Read more Tilt Brush VR update – Google makes it easier for everyone
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‘ which will be out …
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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 projects underway, the vast …
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 sales agent Other Set. …
Read more Vestige VR Experience Acquired Before World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Flyview is the new tourist attraction where you’ll find yourself flying over Paris in Virtual Reality. Not that the city is lacking for birds-eye perspectives – you already get incredible views from the Montparnasse tower, the Place de …
If your only driving experience involves gripping a steering wheel, you might want to check out Waymo’s VR 360 experience of the self-driving car. You could watch this using Google Cardboard, Daydream or Samsung’s popular Gear VR …
One of the more amazing virtual reality experiences at the Sundance Film Festival this week is SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime. Directed by Eliza McNitt, it transports you into a black hole in VR. It’s a virtual experience …
The new VR experience, Wolves in the Walls debuts at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this week. At a time when some see virtual reality failing (see here and here), this short VR …
There have already been major projects in using VR in medicine – from education and patient care to break-through developments in Exposure Therapy and surgery. At the University of New South Wales, researchers have taken immersive …
Read more VR in medicine – taking a journey inside your own body
BBC’s VR spacewalk experience marks a new beginning for the network. Like other traditional media, the BBC has funded a few VR experiences but it’s never been clear how they fit with its mission. All that …
Read more New BBC Virtual Reality Division begins with a VR Spacewalk
The new Titanic VR Experience has arrived and it is both haunting and beautiful. Initially funded through Kickstarter, it is “an interactive exploration game and an immersive historical experience”. Incorporating gameplay and scientific missions, it’s not …
Read more The new Titanic VR experience arrives and it’s stunning