It may surprise the reader to find that one of the founding moments for the development of virtual reality actually happened in Florence, in the early 15th century.
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These Interactive Documentaries Look at 3D-Scanned Desserts and Earth From Orbit
Public Update, a new series from POV Spark, presents its first slate of unconventional nonfiction works.
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When Leonardo da Vinci Just Isn’t Enough
Leonardo’s “Virgin” meets virtual reality — simpleminded in the extreme.
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Finding Human Interest Stories in Virtual Reality
YouTube creator Syrmor talks to people in an online social game. Their stories are often harrowing and emotional — even though they’re coming from the mouths of cartoon characters.
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A VR Experience that Generates Waking Dreams
Dream by experimental musician Philippe Lambert immerses viewers in the strange disorientation of slumber.
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A VR Experience Offers a First-Person View of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike
I Am A Man by Derek Ham is a VR interactive story set in 1968 Memphis that puts you in the shoes of a striking sanitation worker.
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An Afrofeminist Project Uses Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism engages Black womanhood and technological possibility, rejecting the marginalization of people of color in the scientific realm.
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The Gamification of Intimacy Through Dating Sims
Digital technologies for games are developing at an unprecedented pace, compelling us ask how they are potentially shifting society’s relationship to intimacy and social interaction.
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A VR Exhibition Pays Tribute to a Long-Gone Vegas Casino
The Sands, opening on August 12, features works by 15 artists on rotating display in a one-to-one virtual replica of the Lower East Side gallery Essex Flowers.
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A VR Documentary on Animal Surveillance Tracks a Grizzly’s Life
Bear 71 VR is an interactive documentary that uses trail camera footage and animal tracking to follow the life of one grizzly in Banff National Park.
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New VR Arts Platform Launches with Abramović, Eliasson, Koons, and a Whole Lot of Hype
Acute Art aspires “to explore and enable the transition from art in the physical world into the new, disruptive realm of VR,” something artists have been doing for years.
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What Did Precolonial Manhattan Sound Like?
An immersive audio experience transports listeners four centuries into the past, when New York was undeveloped and ecologically diverse.