Balenciaga has released its Fall 2021 fashion collection in the form of a video game, which sees players travel through a wonderland-style future world, passing avatars dressed in ripped jeans and metal-armour boots on the way. More about Balenciaga's Afterworld video game takes players to a secret rave in the forest
Thierry Métroz explains how DS Automobiles is using virtual reality to design more sustainably in this video produced by Dezeen as part of our Design for Life collaboration with Dassault Systèmes. More about Virtual reality will make car design more sustainable says DS Automobiles design director Thierry Métroz
Architecture studio Space Popular has designed the venue for Punto de Inflexión, the first-ever architecture conference held in virtual reality. More about Space Popular designs world's first VR architecture conference as alternative to "boring" Zoom talks
Interest in virtual fashion has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic as people explore ways of dressing their online avatars, according to digital fashion designer Amber Jae Slooten. More about Virtual fashion will allow people to "go completely crazy" online says Amber Jae Slooten of The Fabricant
With Burning Man 2020 taking place in virtual format, architect John Marx and artist Absinthia Vermut have created a digital tour of the museum-like pavilion they had designed for the event. More about John Marx and Absinthia Vermut create virtual experience of Burning Man pavilion
Research agency Forensic Architecture has recreated the 2011 killing of Mark Duggan, using virtual reality to show he "could not have been holding a firearm" when shot by police. More about Forensic Architecture uses virtual reality to question police account of Mark Duggan shooting
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani gave Dezeen readers a virtual reality tour of his Catharsis temple, created for this year's Burning Man festival, on VDF today. More about Live VR tour of Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis amphitheatre as part of Virtual Design Festival
Invisible models wore 3D-rendered garments in a virtual show that Congolese brand Hanifa held on Instagram Live to showcase its latest fashion collection. More about Hanifa digitally debuts Pink Label Congo fashion collection using 3D models
Virtual Design Festival and Arthur Mamou-Mani Architects have teamed up to invite readers to visit a temporary amphitheatre designed for this year's Burning Man festival in virtual reality. More about Join a virtual-reality tour of Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis amphitheatre on Monday 8 June
British photographer Rod Edwards has combined 360-degree photography with videos, interviews and drawings to create an immersive tour of Mikhail Riches' Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street housing project. More about Explore the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street housing in 360-degree interactive tour
Architects are turning to virtual worlds for both working and socialising during the coronavirus pandemic, with everything from site visits to social events happening in cyberspace. More about "Incredible things are happening" in virtual reality say architects in lockdown
Design studio Space Popular has created a gallery in virtual reality for the Architectural Association, plus today's other design and architecture-related coronavirus news. More about Space Popular launches virtual reality art gallery
Rapt Studio is inviting people to take a seat at a virtual table that offers an "experience of connection" at VDF x Ventura Projects. More about Rapt Studio's Table installation facilitates virtual connections
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has called for help to turn a timber amphitheatre designed for this year's Burning Man into a virtual experience after the desert festival was cancelled. More about Arthur Mamou-Mani seeks game designers to help realise virtual Burning Man installation
This movie by Space Popular explores how virtual reality could become as widespread as the video call, allowing our homes to digitally merge with those of our loved ones. More about Swapping video calls for VR will change our homes forever says Space Popular
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 about Samsung's artificial Neon humans are "a new kind of life"
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 about SCI-Arc's Fiction and Entertainment graduates imagine future worlds
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 about Marshmallow Laser Feast's VR exhibition sends "important environmental message"
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 about Otherworld is an immersive VR arcade with interiors influenced by James Turrell
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 about Volta VR tool "will make producing audio more expressive"