Art
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.
Virtual Reality
Art
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.
Art
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.
Opinion
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.
Art
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.
Art
A More Accessible and Eclectic Future for Virtual Reality
This year’s Versions conference mostly encouraged a more sober, productive, and critical probing of the cultural landscape of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality.
Art
A Death Labyrinth, a Steampunk Space Club, and More in the New Museum's First VR Exhibition
From a watery remix of Call of Duty to an elegiac star system commemorating victims of police brutality, the online-only exhibition's six VR works showcase a range of possible worlds.
Art
Walk Inside a Gothic Prayer Bead in a VR Experience at the Cloisters
The VR experience accompanying Small Wonders at the Cloisters in New York is an immersive tour through the angels and demons of a tiny 16th-century prayer bead.
Art
A Virtual Reality Journey to a Remote Corner of the Himalayas
Shezad Dawood's new exhibition at Timothy Taylor gallery consists of screenprinted canvases, bronze and concrete statues, and a central virtual reality experience that interpolates visitors to various worlds of experience
Art
A VR Archive for the Vanishing Haunted House Ride
"Like pinball and computer games, it’s hard to get people to take ghost trains seriously, but they aren’t just important, they are disappearing," Joel Zika, creator of the Dark Ride Project, told Hyperallergic.
Film
At Tribeca Film Festival, Experiencing Submersion, Blindness, and Incarceration in VR
The communal experience of watching a film in theaters is a prime part of moviegoing, but at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, solitary visual consumption is receiving ample attention.
In Brief
Fall with Bruegel's Rebel Angels in a Virtual Reality Experience
Thanks to a new virtual reality project launched this week by the Google Cultural Institute, you can now immerse yourself in one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's most bizarre paintings and hang out with the peculiar creatures that cover its canvas.