Make It A (Virtual) Reality: Metro 2033 If there is one series of videogames that has been able to immerse players with the world and story that it is telling, it is none other than the Metro series. based on … Continue reading A post-apocalyptic metro
Will Virtual Reality Change the Design World? While hundreds of tech firms are broadening their virtual (and augmented) reality footprints—think Google’s omnipotent Street View and Facebook’s recent unveiling of an Oculus Half Dome headset prototype—the truth is that the VR … Continue reading The blackout of the outside world
Virtual reality at Tribeca: Don’t buy the hype? Try $40 for a timed ticket Storytellers piqued by virtual reality’s capabilities are throwing themselves headlong into a unfamiliar format, but the places they’re screening their work are very familiar territory. The … Continue reading Tribeca’s movies
Why the real promise of virtual reality is to change human connection All the talk about virtual reality revolutionizing the gaming industry is “just first-day stuff,” says VR expert Peter Rubin. Forget 360-degree video and video games, he says. That’s … Continue reading It’s not all about gaming
VR is getting very, very good Tech is playing a larger role at SXSW with every passing year, and despite the deeply irritating fact that some tech-bro says the word “disrupt” approximately every .42 seconds somewhere in Austin this week, … Continue reading The best VR experiences
We’re a long way from virtual reality’s Citizen Kane Back when virtual reality first graced people’s lips, talk centred on how the new technology could revolutionise storytelling. The word immersion was said so many times it lost all meaning. Evangelists … Continue reading Audience with headsets
The best VR and AR from Sundance 2018, from haptic gloves to alien abduction The Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier experimental section featured its first virtual reality experience in 2012, and with every festival, its projects have grown longer and … Continue reading Experience touch
A Nanjing Massacre survivor’s story lives on digitally On the morning of December 13th, 1937, Japanese troops pounded on the door of Xia Shuqin’s family home in Nanjing, China. Thirteen people had taken shelter under this particular roof: Eight-year-old Xia, … Continue reading Telling true stories
Virtual reality can fix a lot of what’s wrong with media, and people are wildly underestimating it Critics of virtual reality argue that the immersive nature of VR relegates the technology to gaming, entertainment and job training — not everyday … Continue reading One experience at a time
With Dispatch, Here Be Dragons pushes narrative VR storytelling in bold new directions As virtual reality takes its trip through the hype cycle of technology adoption, I keep returning to the early days of film as a corollary for the … Continue reading Dispatching stories
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 