Wall Street Journal launches architect-designed virtual-reality app for reading the news
Architecture firm Michaelis Boyd's latest apartment building only exists in a virtual-reality news app. More
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Ultra-lifelike figure shows potential future of virtual reality
Although it looks like a real woman, the ultra-lifelike figure in this music video is actually a digital model created using high-resolution 3D scans. More
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Google's fabric VR headset is based on the "clothes we love to wear"
Google has upgraded its thrifty cardboard VR headset with a fabric version named Daydream View, which is designed to work with the company's first own-brand smartphone. More
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Gravity Sketch VR allows designers to create and alter digital models in mid-air
The team behind the Gravity Sketch iPad app have launched new cross-platform software, which gives designers the option to draw and manipulate 3D objects in a virtual reality environment (+ movie). More
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Virtual reality movie offers a preview of Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge
The team behind London's controversial Garden Bridge have released a short film that allows viewers to experience the project in virtual reality (+ movie). More
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Mona's Mask is a soft cotton alternative to VR headsets
Technology company Mona has designed cotton goggles that incorporate a wearer's smartphone to function as a virtual reality headset (+ slideshow). More
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Digital model offers virtual-reality users a preview of BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
For those who aren't able to visit BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion this summer, Swiss visualisation studio Archilogic has made it possible to take an unofficial tour of the building using virtual reality (+ interactive 3D model). More
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VRtisan develops new virtual reality tools for architects
One-minute movie: London studio VRtisan claims its virtual reality technology will allow architects and designers to create buildings and products intuitively in 3D space around them. More
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VR goggles combined with hand-held controllers offers architects "a whole new way of designing"
New virtual reality tools will allow architects and designers to create buildings and products intuitively in 3D space around them, according to the director of visualisation studio VRtisan (+ movie). More
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Google launches Tilt Brush app for virtual reality sketching
Google's virtual reality painting app, Tilt Brush, could allow architects and designers to walk through their sketches in 3D as they draw them (+ movie). More
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ÉCAL students anticipate the future of familiar objects for Milan exhibition
Milan 2016: interaction design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have used connected technologies and virtual reality to imagine possible future versions of everyday objects such as a toaster, a broom and a book (+ movie). More
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Artefact's Shadow hoodie immerses wearers in virtual reality
This clothing concept designed by technology and design company Artefact allows gamers to have "the most immersive virtual reality experience" by using an inbuilt computer, battery and sensors (+ slideshow). More
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Google granted patent for bendy Google Glass-style device
Google's latest approved patent is for a flexible heads-up display that could be the next version of Google Glass. More
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Virtual reality mall lets consumers shop alongside digital giraffes and zebras
Dutch Design Week 2015: British designer Allison Crank has created a virtual reality shopping centre that allows users to commission bespoke objects within a world of floating neon signs and stray zoo animals (+ movie). More
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Audi uses gaming technology to test vehicle designs in the virtual world
German manufacturer Audi is adapting gesture-control technology used in the gaming industry to make its vehicle design processes more efficient. More
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Virtual reality helmets present a forest from an animal's perspective
Visitors to an English forest were able to explore the woods through the eyes of different animals as part of a virtual reality experience by London design studio Marshmallow Laser Feast (+ movie). More
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Virtual reality will allow architects "to change the world like a god"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architects will soon be walking clients through digital models of their designs, says 3D visualiser Olivier Demangel, who built a virtual replica of a house he saw on Dezeen to showcase the technology (+ movie). More
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FIELD creates sculptural virtual reality helmets for Violescence exhibition
These sculptural helmets by digital art studio FIELD incorporate Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets (+ movie). More
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Virtual reality will be "more powerful than cocaine"
Interview: every architect will soon design using 3D goggles, according to designer and visualiser Olivier Demangel, who believes that virtual architecture will be as convincing as the real thing within five years (+ movies). More
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Apple wins patent approval for wireless virtual reality headset
News: Apple has been granted a patent for a wireless headset that mounts an iPhone in front of the eyes, hinting at the company's expansion into virtual reality. More
