Samsung's artificial Neon humans are "a new kind of life"
In a bid to "make science fiction a reality", Samsung's future factory STAR Labs has developed Neon, AI-powered virtual beings that look and behave like real humans. More
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SCI-Arc's Fiction and Entertainment graduates imagine future worlds
From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. More
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Marshmallow Laser Feast's VR exhibition sends "important environmental message"
Digital art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast marks the opening of the Kengo Kuma-designed Odunpazari Modern Museum with two virtual reality installations that comment on humanity's dependency on nature. More
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Otherworld is an immersive VR arcade with interiors influenced by James Turrell
Architecture studio Red Deer has completed a virtual reality entertainment space in an east London railway arch with neon interiors that draw on the work of light artist James Turrell. More
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Apple offers augmented reality art tours in six major cities
Apple has collaborated with New York's New Museum to launch a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences that will see six large-scale virtual artworks take over major global cities. More
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Volta VR tool "will make producing audio more expressive"
Royal College of Art graduate Alex Kane explains how his virtual reality Volta production tool allows users to create multidirectional "spatial audio" in this video interview shot by Dezeen. More
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Squint/Opera, BIG and UNStudio create virtual-reality collaborative design tool
Creative digital studio Squint/Opera has worked with BIG and UNStudio to create Hyperform, a tool that allows architects and planners to collaborate in virtual reality. More
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Gravity Sketch VR software now lets designers switch between 2D and 3D
Designers can move easily between drawing in a virtual-reality environment and on their tablet using the latest update to Gravity Sketch. More
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Antony Gormley's Lunatick invites Londoners to moon walk
Artist Antony Gormley has teamed up with astrophysicist Priya Natarajan on a virtual-reality experience that allows users to walk on a digital version of the moon created using data from NASA. More
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Dornbracht installation aims to challenge the way people experience water
Dezeen promotion: German kitchen and bathroom manufacturer Dornbracht has unveiled plans for a virtual-reality installation at this year's Milan design week, which will examine how technology can change the way people interact with water. More
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Invisible Landscapes installations explore how virtual reality will change architecture
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled a series of installations that show how virtual and augmented reality technologies can change the experience of buildings and spaces. More
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VR film offers preview of Amateur Architecture Studio's Lin'an History Museum
The Bartlett School of Architecture has created a virtual reality tour of the Lin'an History Museum, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu's studio, which is yet to open to the public. More
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Watch footage of Universal Everything's immersive VR experience
This captioned video shows a virtual reality experience created by Universal Everything, where a 5,000-strong crowd of simulated humans surges and swarms in response to the user's movements. More
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Holoride creates carsickness-battling VR experience for self-driving-car passengers
German start-up Holoride has designed a virtual-reality experience for the backseats of taxis, for passengers in autonomous vehicles or for kids on long car trips. More
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Six graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven designing for the post-internet age
The internet is affecting the way we interact with the world around us, from the news we read to how we perceive fashion and beauty, as these six Design Academy Eindhoven graduates demonstrate. More
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Shape-shifting Cypher sculpture by Ozel Office is controlled by motion
California architecture studio Ozel Office has created a blobby robotic sculpture that changes shape in the presence of people, or through the movements of those wearing a matching virtual reality headset. More
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Self-driving cars will "exacerbate congestion rather than improve it" says Paul Priestman
Autonomous vehicles could make congestion worse in cities, according to leading transport designer Paul Priestman, who claims that personal transport needs to be rethought as it's "just not efficient any more". More
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Frank Kolkman creates death simulation machine using virtual reality
To tackle "death anxiety" among terminally ill hospital patients, designer Frank Kolkman has created a device that simulates a near-death experience using virtual reality. More
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Google releases library of 3D clip-art for use in virtual and augmented reality
Google has launched a digital library of user-created 3D objects that can be used to populate virtual- and augmented-reality worlds. More
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Facebook launches virtual-reality headset that can be used without other devices
Facebook has unveiled its new Oculus Go virtual-reality headset, which functions without being plugged into a computer or paired with a phone. More
