VR Art
Oculus Artist’s ‘Quill’ Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR
Quill, Oculus' VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to...
‘Quill’ Gets Animation Tools to Bring Your VR Paintings to Life
Quill, Facebook's VR painting tool, has been a great way to sketch in VR since its launch back at the end of 2016, but today a new update transforms it into something entirely new. Now, with tools for animating Quill artwork...
Tate Modern’s ‘Modigliani VR: The Ochre Atelier’ Experience Comes to Viveport
HTC has now published the Modigliani VR experience, The Ochre Atelier, on Viveport. As a focal point at the Modigliani exhibition currently still in rotation at Tate Modern in London, the experience takes you to the early 20th century Parisian studio of famous painter and sculptor...
30 Years of Lost ‘Star Wars’ Production Art Showcased in Virtual Gallery Inside ‘Sansar’
A virtual reality gallery showcasing 30 years of lost art from Star Wars film productions has launched inside of the social virtual platform, Sansar. Collector and exhibit curator Greg Aronwitz offered guided tours at the gallery's debut.
For the past 30...
HTC Announces Multi-million Dollar Vive Art Initiative, Bringing VR to Museums Worldwide
HTC announced a new multi-million dollar VR initiative aiming to support content, creators and institutions that embrace VR not only as an artistic medium itself, but as a way to better immerse users in all forms of art. The company aptly calls the program...
Using Abstract VR Art for Neural Entrainment & Brain Research
Kevin Mack is an Oscar-winning visual effects artist and abstract artist who creates digital spaces with fluidly moving textures that are awe-inspiring in their ability to create a novel experience unique to VR. In Blortasia you float weightlessly exploring...
Multiuser VR Sculpting & Paint Tool ‘MasterpieceVR’ Now Available on Vive & Rift
MasterpieceVR is a 3D creation tool that's looking to get an edge on the competition by offering something no other volumetric art program has so far; a multi-user, spectator-friendly, sculpting and painting tool that promises to house everything you need in...
‘Quill’ Development Continues Under Facebook Social VR Team After Oculus Story Studio’s Shuttering
VR painting app Quill, which began its life as an internal production tool for Oculus Story Studio and was eventually released to the public, will see continued development despite the shuttering of the studio back in May. Former Story Studio members...
Magik Gallery – Highlighting Artists Using VR as Their Canvas
Nick Ochoa curated some of the top artists producing work entirely in VR for the Magik Gallery show that happened in San Francisco, CA on May 20th. It was an ambitious effort to introduce VR creation tools for artists...
Artist Fuses Real and Virtual Art with ‘Tilt Brush’ Mixed Reality
Artist Anna Zhilyaeva recently created an ‘augmented reality painting’ for her YouTube channel, ‘Anna’s dream brush’, which is dedicated to VR-based art. The work combines mixed-reality footage using VR software Tilt Brush with a real painting on canvas.
“I was...
‘Neurospeculative Afrofeminism’: Using VR to Build the Future You Want to Live Into
Hyphen Labs is a immersive design collective made up of women of color, and they were showing a sci-fi VR experience at Sundance this year called Neurospeculative Afrofeminism. Their VR experience features black women as some of the pioneers...
Watch: Star Wars Battle Brought to Life in VR Via Tilt Brush
Designer and Creative technologist Dong Yoon Park has painstakingly recreated a Star Wars battle scene inside VR with Google's Tilt Brush. Watch this beautiful digital art come to life in this walkthrough and speeded up realtime recording.
Virtual reality artistry...
‘Fantasynth’ Alpha Preview
Fantasynth (2017) is an upcoming VR music experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that takes you on a surreal ride through an abstract world of sharp geometric shapes and eye-catching neon lights. Pulsing to the futuristic beat of...
Prolific VFX Artist Kevin Mack Brings Surrealist Sculpture to Life in ‘Blortasia’
Kevin Mack is a digital fine artist and prolific visual effects designer known for his work across films such as Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Fifth Element (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998) for which he won an...
‘DREAMS OF O’ is a Hauntingly Beautiful VR Dive into a Dark and Unforgiving World
Cirque du Soleil and Felix & Paul Studios recently launched another fantastical collaborative VR video, this time delving deep into the world of surreal underwater performance art with its aerial acrobatics, dives, fire, and hauntingly beautiful amphibious characters.
The 12-minute 360...




















