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Invisible VR Doesn’t Make Me Want a Lexus
Bourne Identity director Doug Liman’s sci-fi 360 video series arrived on Jaunt this week, and while there are a number of innovative elements such as extensive camera movement, a 360 twist on the...
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VJs: Don’t Blind your DJs
I had the pleasure of doing live projections last night at Brooklyn’s C’mon Everybody to accompany DJ sets by DFA Records artist The Juan MacLean backed up by my friend DJ Stewie Decimal, DJ Treatz,...
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VR Echoes the Novel’s Early Days
VR is here, but not yet everywhere. It has fascinating roots in 19th-century amusements, but it still feels like the future and—as is the case with new things—it feels exciting, or alarming, or both,...
View ArticleThis Is What Democracy Looks Like in 360
In traditional documentary journalism, the very act of pointing the camera in a single direction is an act of editing, an act of censorship. A newscaster could film a protester climbing on top of a...
View ArticleUnpacking the VR Mixtape
Last month my friend Steven hosted a mixtape exchange at the Kitchen and since I’m constantly reading about virtual reality, my first thought was, has anyone ever made a VR mixtape? The most popular...
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VR Reads, Volume 1: George Saunders
VR owes much of its storytelling potential to the power of place. A strong medium for ambient experience, VR has the ability to play with a viewer’s relationship to virtual surroundings using...
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Getting Splashy with 4D Wearables
L ast Thanksgiving I introduced my parents and their guests to the wild world of virtual reality. I had brought home a Google Cardboard and a video I had shot on the 360fly action camera while rafting...
View ArticleVimeo 360: Good for Vimeo, Good for VR
I was very excited to learn that, as of this month, Vimeo began supporting 360 video. I manage websites for several independent media producers and non-profits, and due to its friendly UI, lack of...
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A Visit to Europe’s First VR Arcade
Last week I visited VREI, a VR café in Vienna that claims to be Europe’s first VR arcade. Its very welcoming staff showed me to an iPad listing all of the game options and pricing, which is measured...
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