A Conversation with the Creator of the Award-winning ‘The Night Café’

The Night Café is an amazingly surreal immersive VR experience of walking through a space that's inspired by a painting by Vincent van Gogh. I speak with Mac Cauley about the inspiration behind the experience, which won both the...

Sundance Announces Over 30 VR Experiences Coming to 2016 Festival

Sundance's New Frontier program, the yearly showcase supported by the Sundance Institute for works in new media, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Over 30 virtual reality installations will be present within New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival. The New Frontier...

Tony Parisi’s ‘Learning Virtual Reality’ Book Now Available

At the end of November, around 60 people gathered at the offices of Rothenberg Ventures in downtown San Francisco to celebrate the release of VR pioneer Tony Parisi's new book Learning Virtual Reality. For the uninitiated, Tony is recognized...
video

Inside ‘Ixian Gate’ – An Otherworldly, Surrealist Dream Come to Life

Ixian Gate is a beautiful, infectiously weird VR demo created by Jess Johnson, a New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne. Johnson takes a measure of inspiration from Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi tome Dune (1965) to produce an otherworldly experience that is an enigmatic trip through tessellating shapes and bodies...

What $136 Million Invested in November Alone Says About the VR Industry

Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is...

Valve Adds Support for Latest Oculus Rift SDK in SteamVR Update

Amidst ongoing development of Valve's SteamVR platform, a recent update has brought support for the latest version of the Oculus Rift SDK and Runtime. Apparently in an effort to ensure continued support for the Oculus Rift through SteamVR, a November...

Oculus to Talk Rift “Family Screen Time” at CES 2016

Oculus' Head of Display Technology is set to talk at CES on the subject of how the Oculus Rift VR Headset, due for launch in Q1 2016, might just be the "The Family Friend" when it comes to entertaining...
video

Watch Halo Played on Microsoft HoloLens in Augmented Reality

This is a video of Microsoft project manager Varun Mani, streaming a game of Halo: Guardians to his HoloLens, presented through the magic of augmented reality, straight onto his walls. Microsoft's augmented reality wonder-toy HoloLens has flirted with the idea of becoming...
video

New England Patriots Giving Away 10K Cardboard Viewers at Today’s Game

The push to 360 video for marketing experiences continues as Bank of America and Visa collaborate with US football team the New England Patriots to deliver a Google Cardboard 360 video experience which aims to give you a glimpse...
video

‘Uncanny Valley’ Explores a Dystopian Vision of Virtual Reality and Drone Warfare

A new short film from Federico Heller explores a well travelled dystopian sci-fi narrative territory—addiction to future technologies, war and murder’s gamification, a lone male protagonist’s sudden epiphany regarding a virtual reality’s illusion—in a brightly polished vehicle. Aside from interviews with...