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.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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