I met Mona Lisa today. Nice lady: great smile, doesn’t talk much. At all, in fact; things got a little awkward when I introduced myself and she proceeded to just stare at me. And stare, and stare… and stare some more. I’m not what you’d call a connoisseur of the arts, but I don’t think...
If our wishes come true, Valve will one day bring Portal to VR headsets. But what might the beloved puzzle series look like if it was brought into the real world with mixed reality? That’s a question developer Kenny W set out to answer with this incredible fan-made project that combines the crazy world of...
Fake news, and the discussion of how to prevent the spreading of misinformation, is a hot topic right now. A student studying at the Syracuse University in New York thinks VR might have the answer. Pritesh Desai this month released Little Maxima for the Oculus Rift. This is a VR news reading app that lets...
People around the world got an opportunity to see an historic Super Bowl with the New England Patriots overcoming a massive 3 – 28 deficit to tie the Falcons, head to the first Super Bowl overtime, and win it with Tom Brady taking the big game’s MVP honors. Those wanting a new experience are able to...
Welcome to our weekly virtual reality art roundup! Everything you are about to see was made by hand by in a variety of VR creation programs that include Google’s Tilt Brush, Oculus Medium, Quill and Gravity Sketch. The pieces below were drafted in a three dimensional 360 degree digital space using only a VR headset, a...
On our list of 50 VR games we can’t wait to play in 2017, Bebylon: Battle Royale certainly stood out. With babies (or characters that appear to be babies) engaging in vehicular melee, one can’t help but be curious about what’s going on here. At PAX South 2017, Kite & Lightning co-founder Ikrima Elhassan was excitedly demoing...
Star Citizen‘s Senior Graphics Programmer Ben Parry has dropped a disappointing bombshell regarding the status of the crowdfunded title’s long awaited VR support, indicating that players may be waiting some time for it to emerge. Star Citizen was the first title I ever wrote about on Road to VR, way back in the mists of...
Virtual reality can be a gateway to spaces and interactions that would otherwise be out of reach in normal circumstances, and two science teachers at Alta Vista School in San Francisco, Elizabeth Kramar and Toni Setteducato, took advantage of the technology for their classrooms and shared their findings. “Learning comes to life at the moment...
“Where the [expletive deleted] is my keyboard?” As someone who spends a lot of time inside of a virtual reality headset, this is something I find myself barking angrily to myself quite a bit. My neighbors love me. The issues is that in order for a VR headset to function well it needs to keep...
Serious tech observers generally agree our mixed-reality future will be amazing, and we’re not there yet. Beyond technical hurdles like frame rate and positional tracking, mixed reality presents unique challenges for the designers, artists, and storytellers who craft the narratives that give meaning to digital experiences. The challenge facing today’s developers is to recognize that...
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