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Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Otherworlds closes Sunday at PHI
Six ecological worlds from a decade of fieldwork, hung as chapters of one unfolding video game — the artist’s largest institutional show yet.
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OTHERWORLDS
OTHERWORLDS won A MAZE's Human Human Machine Award
Sophia Bulgakova's mixed-reality ritual, drawn from Ukrainian pagan practice, took the Berlin festival's prize for collective presence.
Virtual Reality
Pulling the threads of authenticity with Eugene Chung
Eugene Chung shares experiences and insights in virtual reality storytelling, focusing on his work at Penrose Studios and the challenges of creating immersive narratives in VR.
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VIRGO’s dreamy Water Planet drips to Steam this summer
When we last saw Water Planet in the summer of 2016, the virtual reality game accompaniment to electronic musician VIRGO’s EP of the same name, it had just been ushered through Steam Greenlight. But that was sometime ago, and after hearing nothing but crickets for nearly six months, its release wind
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Low-poly puzzles restore light to a dark world in a new game
Virtual reality is still in its early days, and being young, has a lot of issues that need ironing out. But sometimes developers can’t pinpoint everything, which is why the vast majority of developers are releasing games on Steam Early Access—to crowdsource Quality Assurance testing, in a way—before
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Superhot VR’s new update challenges you to beat the game in 10 minutes
In our friends at Versions’ end of the year wrap-up of their favorite virtual reality interactions of 2016, Superhot VR stood out. Superhot VR takes after the bullet-time videogame it spawned from, except with one clear difference—as your actual head and body moved, as did time. This lends itself to
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VERSIONS 2017, Speaker Spotlight: Charlotte Furet
The F_T_R are an interdisciplinary design studio working at the intersection of speculation, imagination, prediction, and realization. On their website, they bid themselves as “Innovation Architects.” And as the creators of projects such as the haptic suit Skinterface and the digital display of biol
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A VR short film has been nominated for an Academy Award
While last year the Emmy’s recognized the Oculus Story Studio short film Henry, this year another awards ceremony is taking notice of virtual reality—the Academy Awards. Pearl, a VR short from Google, has been nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. Pearl, released in 201
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Nothing like a 2-bit beach, 8-bit sounds, and real sand to get in your shoes
I’m not a beach person. I don’t like when sand gets in my shoes. And I don’t like wearing sandals to avoid that very problem either. I live in San Francisco, where the beaches are notoriously windy and cold, not sun-kissed and surf-ready. When I think of beaches, I often wish I were thinking of some
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Chrome-tinged cats come to life in this colorful VR music video
Most virtual reality music videos feel the same. They’re all impressive on a technical level, rotating 360-degrees so viewers can take in all their surroundings. Yet little of them inject the most integral feature: interactivity. That is, except for Tyler Hurd, an animator known for injecting life i
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An old, controversial science-fiction film is being reimagined for VR
Who asked for this? We’ll probably never know. But anyways: the “cult classic” science fiction film The Lawnmower Man is coming to virtual reality. Beyond the VR world already in the film, to actual VR. The 1992 film is being resurrected by the VR distribution company Jaunt, according to an announce
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Rubi’s Room tests what it’s like to solve a life-sized Rubik’s Cube in VR
Rubi’s Room wasn’t always in virtual reality, but gazing at its perfectly dizzying human Rubik’s Cube antics, it wouldn’t be surprising to think it was. The game was borne during the latest Ludum Dare game jam, but in a much simpler 2D state. But for Germany-based developer David Hagemann, the idea