Learning and Living in AR, VR, and AI
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 26), 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 …
Read more “I Am A Man” VR Experience puts you inside the Civil Rights Movement
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. …