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
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
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
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