HACKING XR

Released: January 2016 Creators: Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney Format: 360 experience, 25min Viewing System: Gear VR, Oculus Notes on Blindness is a 360 immersive experience on what it feels like to go blind. The experience is guided by the audio diaries developed by theologist John Hull as a way to express his feelings and frustrations with regard to going blind. It is divided into various sections that explore Hull’s change on perception

Creators: Dana Abrassart, Paula Ceballos, Leslie Ruckman (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program) Platform: Oculus Rift When We Die (WWD) is a meditation on mortality and dying, created by three students at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. I had the chance to try this app at a Consciousness Hacking event hosted in Harvard Divinity School’s chapel; the perfect setting for a meditation of any kind. The experience includes two chapters that take place in to tw

Creator: Presence Labs Platform: Samsung Gear VR / Oculus Rift GrooVR is a VR music visualizer created by Presence Labs. I personally tried the app on the Samsung Gear. When the application loads you find yourself in a space-like scene with purple mountains and geometric shapes on the floor filled with bright purples, pinks, and blues. The music playing in the start menu is really intense electronica. The stars and specs in the sky are moving rapidly to the beat and the color

Creator: Mac Platform: Samsung Gear VR Release Date: April 19, 2015 Expressionism in painting has existed for more than one hundred years. It was an artistic stepping stone in terms of expressing meaning and emotion in a scene. The art viewing process has been two dimensional and linear for a long time. VR enhances the experience by allowing you to focus on the art without the museum around you. Art museums lead you chronologically through an artist’s work. “The Night Cafe” V

Epic Games, CGI Viewing System: Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch “Robo Recall” is an intense action, first-person shooting game that succeeds in delivering a highly immersive and entertaining VR experience. The game gracefully tailors creative UI solutions for known challenges in current VR functionality and leverages the Oculus hardware’s strengths to capture the medium’s immersive potential. The game comes from the well-known VR gaming company Epic Games, the creator of the VR gam