VR Art
‘Tilt Brush’ Update Adds Direct Sketchfab Export Function
Tilt Brush (2016), the VR art app from Google, now has the ability to directly export VR creations to Sketchfab, the popular online repository for 3D models.
Tilt Brush has had the ability to import from Sketchfab for some time now, although...
BBC Launches ‘Micro Kingdoms’ Experience for Magic Leap, Narrated by Stephen Fry
BBC Studios and AR/VR studio PRELOADED today launched BBC Earth - Micro Kingdoms: Senses, the interactive documentary for Magic Leap 1. Narrated by Stephen Fry, the AR experience brings user into the tiny world of insects and arachnids.
Created in collaboration with the BBC...
Mind-bending VR Art Showcase ‘Museum of Other Realities’ Exits Early Access
The Museum of Other Realities (MOR) first launched into Early Access on PC VR headsets in June 2019, bringing with it a curated selection of multi-sensory art pieces from some of the medium's most talented illustrators, animators, and engineers. Now,...
Sketchfab Launches Public Domain Program so Museums Can Share Cultural Relics in 3D
Sketchfab is a great resource for developers looking for a place to share and download 3D models—all of which can be viewed in VR headsets. Now, the company has launched a new program that makes it easier for museums...
MasterpieceVR Launches ‘Studio’ Suite for Sculpting & Animating Models in VR
MasterpieceVR recently released its latest set of VR creation tools which aim to get artists quickly sculpting and animating characters by hand from the comfort of their VR headsets.
Called Masterpiece Studio, the 3D content creation suite combines the 3D...
Adobe Acquires Facebook’s ‘Oculus Medium’ VR Sculpting Tool
Facebook today announced that Adobe—the company behind industry-leading creative tools like Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance—has acquired Oculus Medium, the company's VR sculpting tool.
Oculus Medium launched back in 2016 alongside the company's Touch motion controllers, and began as an exploration...
The Louvre is Bringing The Mona Lisa to Life Soon in a New VR Experience
Housed in Paris' Lovure Museum, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is almost always surrounded by throngs of tourists, desperate for a glimpse and maybe a photo or two of the 16th century painting. Now, HTC Vive Arts and the Louvre...
American Museum of Natural History’s T. Rex VR Experience Comes to Viveport
HTC and the American Museum of Natural History announced early this year that the Manhattan-based institution's 'T. rex: The Ultimate Predator' exhibit was getting a VR experience that would let museum-goers collaborate to build a Tyrannosaurus rex bone-by-bone in...
Knight Foundation Offers $750K in Grants for Immersive Tech in the Arts
The Knight Foundation, focused on journalism and the arts, is opening a call-for-ideas from creatives and organizations using immersive technology to bring art to their audiences. Selected projects will be awarded a share of a $750,000 grant pool, as...
Google’s VR Painting App ‘Tilt Brush’ is Coming to Quest at Launch, Cross-Buy with Rift
Already own a copy of Google's VR creation tool Tilt Brush (2016) from the Oculus Store? Then you'll be able to hop right into the company's intuitive painting app with Oculus Quest, the upcoming standalone VR headset.
Update (April 18th, 2019):...
Madefire Releases 3D Comics App for Magic Leap One
Madefire, the minds behind the Motion Books 3D comic format and publishing platform, today released a new app for Magic Leap One that will let users not only publish their own 3D 'motion comic' creations directly to the AR...
Oculus Hosts Halloween Pumpkin-carving Contest in ‘Oculus Medium’
There's only a few days left until the trick-or-treaters come knocking at your door, but as you break out the dull kitchen knife and inevitably cut yourself on your real pumpkin this year to make a haphazard Jack-o-lantern, you...
Facebook Artist Makes a Case for VR Manga in Homage to Iconic ‘Dragon Ball’ Scene
As a current artist-in-residence on the Facebook Social VR team, Goro Fujita has been making some pretty impressive "quillistrations" as a part of his daily creative regime using Quill, Oculus' first-party VR paint and drawing tool that he helped develop. In a...
Oculus ‘Medium’ 2.0 Overhauls Performance and Tools, Allows Exporting to ‘Home’
Medium, Oculus' first-party VR sculpting and modeling tool, today gets a major update in version 2.0, bringing better performance, improved tools, and the ability to export your creations into your own Oculus Home space.
Having launched Medium initially back in...
‘Quill’ Artwork Can Now Be Shared With Friends in ‘Facebook Spaces’
Quill, Facebook's VR painting and animation tool, is now getting a new and immersive avenue for sharing artwork created in the application. With today's update, users can now share their artwork into Facebook Spaces, letting friends experience it together....




















