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Creators: HelloEnjoy, Carlos Ulloa, Libertad Aguilera Year of Release: 2017 Platform: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality Fantasynth is an audio-reactive experience designed for Virtual Reality, where the user is able to glide through a futuristic environment that comes alight with the music. FantaSynth is released on April 20, 2017 by the creators HelloEnjoy. HelloEnjoy is comprised of the creative duo of Carlos Ulloa and Libertad Aguilera. The music that accompa

Vacation Simulator Created by: Owlchemy Labs Release Date: 4/9/2019 Available on Steam Platform: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality Vacation Simulator is a game made by Owlchemy Labs, the people who made Job Simulator back in 2016. Much like how Job Simulator was about the user being thrown into various jobs in a robot dominated world in 2050, Vacation Simulator is about the user being thrown into a vacation resort populated by robots who are trying to resurrect the

Created by: Leap Motion Released February 10, 2016 Available for: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality Blocks incorporates an interactive engine built for the Leap Motion Controller which allows users to visualize and interact with virtual objects using all of their fingers. The controller reinterprets the user’s hands and gestures to emulate actions within the virtual environment. The user is able to create and interact with 3-dimensional digital objects as well as m

(Stills, Courtesy of the BDH Design & Direction) Created by: BDH IMMERSIVE Released: 2017 Available for: Oculus Go, Rift, GearVR https://www.wonderfulyouvr.com/ In “Wonderful You,” one experiences a gestational journey into the miracle of human development. The piece hopscotches around our nine months inside the womb, tracking in trippy color and sound the development of your senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. And the soothing tones of Samantha Morton, (probabl

Creators: White Elk Studios; Section Studios and Cecil Kim; Released: Nov 1 2018 Platform: Oculus Go and Daydream VR. Eclipse: Edge of Light is a puzzle adventure where you uncover the secrets of an extinct civilization, ravaged by a false prophet consumed by the moon’s darkness. While simple, its story does leave me satisfied. The player interacts with the world via a stone they carry in their hands. The stone lets them open/uncover environmental elements, open doors, reveal

Created by: IrisVR, Inc. Released 2016 Available on: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive Viewing System: Oculus Rift Prospect is a software for immersive architectural design review and collaboration in virtual reality. It is used by BIM and VDC teams, design firms, and engineers who coordinate 3D models and implement design and construction processes. Because Prospect integrates with Revit, Rhino, Navisworks, SketchUp, and other 3D tools out of the box, users can instantly create an immer

Created by: Aaron Bradbury (director), NSC Creative Released December 2018 Available for: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality Vestige is a VR piece on the exploration of grief and the loss of a loved one. In the experience, we listen to a woman talk about losing her late husband, while actors reenact the scenes she describes. The actors were filmed using volumetric capture and then stylized into patterns of glowing lines against a dark background, which weave into di