In March 2016, Oculus announced their Oculus Launchpad program with the idea that in order for VR to be successful, then there needs to be a diverse range of content created from diverse set of creators who are informed...

There was an amazing projection-mapped, immersive theater piece at Sundance this year by Heartcorps called Riders of the Storyboard. Trained street performers interacted with virtual projection-mapped 2D objects, and through the sleight of hand magic broke these flat objects...

VR World NYC is a new VR arcade that opened on June 24th in New York City right next to the Empire State Building. They have three floors with 55 different VR experiences, and they're using an all-you-eat buffet...

Oculus premiered about a dozen games ahead of GDC this year, and one that stood out to me was Mage's Tale  for its distinct art style and passion in using VR to fulfill childhood fantasies of becoming a spell-casting magician....

My favorite narrative VR piece that I've seen so far this year is Rose Colored by Adam Cosco that premiered at VRLA. It's a science fiction morality tale that is asking us to look at a potential future of...

There's an invisible cyber war that's happening between major nation states, and Zero Days VR takes you inside of it in a completely new way using virtual reality. You go on a journey into a hyper-stylized cyberspace world...

Funomena's Woorld won the 'Best AR Experience' category at the recent 2017 Google Play awards. In the game you scan your room with a Google Tango-enabled phone, and then you're encouraged to decorate your space with extremely cute art...

Kyle Russell is on the deal & research team for venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (aka A16z) where he's focusing on investing in technologies ranging from virtual & augmented reality, artificial intelligence, drones, and other exponential technologies like quantum computing....

Google's overarching mission is to organize all of the world's information, and so it's a natural fit for the company to be one of the leading innovators for using VR for immersive education. Google Expeditions was born out of...

Mozilla's mission statement is to ensure that the Internet remains a global public resource, open and accessible to all, and they've been helping to bring VR to the web for the past three years. A-Frame is an open source...

Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and so they've been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they'll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR, and that...

Cory Doctorow's new sci-fi book "Walkaway" is a optimistic disaster novel that imagines what society might look like if people walked away from competitive market-driven laws, norms, and technological infrastructure and into an open-source inspired, collaborative gift economy. He's...

The HoloLens is the most impressive augmented reality headset on the market today, and their developer kit is already being deployed into industries ranging from architecture, engineering, design, sales, medicine, and education. Microsoft is taking a holistic approach with...

The Microsoft Build conference starts this week, and I expect that we'll be learning more about the HoloLens as well as Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality operating system. Microsoft has been evangelizing about virtual reality the past couple of years...

Philip Rosedale has been thinking deeply about how to architect large-scale, distributed virtual worlds after experiencing many bottlenecks as the founder of Second Life. His new metaverse venture, High Fidelity, is taking a much more distributed approach with how it's...