6X9: a virtual experience of solitary confinement What’s it like to spend 23 hours a day in a cell measuring 6×9 feet for days, weeks, months or even years? 6×9 is the Guardian’s first virtual reality experience, which places you … Continue reading Welcome to your cell
How A Former Pixar Executive Is Building A VR Company Based On Pixar Principles Before Tom Sanocki formed the Seattle-based virtual reality company Limitless Entertainment, he spent 11 years at Pixar, where he designed characters for films such as Cars, … Continue reading Gary the Gull in VR
Chernobyl VR doc seeks funding The Dutch VR development studio Verum Visum LP has launched a Kickstarter for an interactive documentary, Chornobyl360, that will allow users to experience the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in an immersive way and interact … Continue reading The VR documentary on Chernobyl
The Case Against Reality As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions—sights, sounds, textures, tastes—are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Sure, when we stop and think about it—or when we find ourselves … Continue reading How we perceive false reality
Piecing Together Apple’s Real Virtual Reality Plans Out in the world of Virtual Reality, the Samsung Gear is rapidly becoming the device that is driving consumer adoption. But just to be clear, it’s not that sophisticated a device. It is … Continue reading Apple goes VR
‘Paranormal Activity VR’ is So Scary Someone Threw Off Their Headset There I was, standing at the check-in kiosk for the Paranormal Activity VR booth at GDC, and the moment I’d been waiting for finally happened: a young woman got … Continue reading How to make a first-person VR movie
Retail stores using virtual reality The next item you try on at the mall might be a virtual reality headset. No longer relegated to video gamers, VR is coming to amusement parks, movie theaters and classrooms. But the technology presents … Continue reading Shopping with Oculus Rift
Virtual Reality Technology Aims to Enhance Human Interactions A picture surfaced on the Internet last month that shows Mark Zuckerberg, the curly-haired Facebook co-founder, marching unseen past a crowd of people wearing Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. In the photo, … Continue reading Is VR just a recreational escape?
Studio 360 Janicza Bravo makes short films about loneliness. In one, Michael Cera plays an abrasive paraplegic who can’t get lucky. In another, Gaby Hoffmann plays a phone stalker for whom the description “comes on too strong” is not strong … Continue reading The pioneers of VR narratives
VR headsets can help tank drivers Four Norwegian experts recently proved that virtual reality live streaming systems can practically be employed to control vehicles, when they helped drive a real battle tank — a German Leopard 1 — with the … Continue reading VR tank gamification
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 