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The latest virtual reality news, opinion, features and reviews. For virtual reality projects created by the Guardian visit this page

July 2024

  • Getting down tonight … Who Do Ya Love?

    Edinburgh festival 2024: 20 theatre shows making a scene this summer

    With subjects ranging from the deadly serious to the downright silly, this year’s shows include plays about addiction, politics, funk and Come Dine With Me
  • A visitor wearing a VR headset and using controllers

    VR show takes ravers old and new back to early UK acid house scene

    In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is set in the West Midlands and will embark on eight-city tour starting in Birmingham
  • Josh Taylor

    Apple’s Vision Pro headset is impressive – but it’s hard to know its ultimate purpose

    Josh Taylor
    The most obvious function is for watching 3D movies or TV shows, but it may wind up being most useful at work

May 2024

  • A boy plays the Bears VR game

    Virtual reality games helping UK’s deaf children to understand speech

    Scientists have found that immersing kids in computer games can train their brains to localise sounds better

February 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    I tried out an Apple Vision Pro. It frightened me

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Emma Brockes

    Think Apple’s Vision Pro headset makes you look like Neo in The Matrix? Sorry, you so don’t

    Emma Brockes
  • People have been spotted using Apple's new Vision Pro VR headset on public transport, in the gym and even while driving

    Safety concerns after people filmed using Apple Vision Pro headset – video report

  • Screengrab captures driver taking hands off the wheel in moving Tesla.

    Viral videos of Tesla drivers using VR headsets prompt US government alarm

January 2024

  • The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed in a showroom on the Apple campus after it's unveiling on 5 June 2023.

    Apple Vision Pro reviews roundup: stunning potential with big trade-offs

  • Apple’s Vision Pro, a ‘spatial computing’ platform is positioned as a success to the Mac and iPhone.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Why Apple’s Vision Pro headset won’t have Netflix, Spotify or YouTube

  • Burns Beyond Reality Edify 3D Burns model Rabbie Burns Robert Burns This 3D model is produced by the Museums in the Metaverse project at the University of Glasgow: a Levelling-Up Innovation Accelerator project to build a two-sided XR Cultural Heritage platform. The Museums in the Metaverse (MiM) project will create a ground-breaking two-sided Extended Reality (XR) Cultural Heritage platform that aims to empower diverse visitors to explore cultural assets in new and engaging ways.

    Egg timer, Coke bottle and a skull cast: VR puts Burns memorabilia in reach

  • Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty game.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Cybercrime, AI supremacy and the metaverse – the tech stories that will dominate 2024

December 2023

  • mouse on treadmill with face covered by VR goggles and image of a hovering hawk reflected in the lenses

    VR goggles for mice create immersive scenarios for brain research

    Study suggests mice react in the same way to stimulation in virtual environment as in real world

October 2023

  • A Van Gogh self-portrait at the exhibition of his last works at the Musée d’Orsay

    AI Vincent van Gogh talks of ‘mental health struggles’ in Paris exhibition

    Musée d’Orsay adds AI and VR to display of artist’s last works, never previously seen together

September 2023

  • Tulpamancer.

    Rage against the machine? Why AI may not mean the death of film

  • Alexis Moroz and Balthazar Auxietre’s Another Fisherman’s Tale

    Venice’s brave new world: my cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back

August 2023

  • Visitors watching immersive content on VR headsets at the launch of the Birmingham Royal Ballet virtual stage programme.

    Birmingham Royal Ballet uses virtual reality to make dance more accessible

    Company aims to allow those unable to go to the theatre, including neurodivergent people, the elderly and children, to enjoy its shows
  • Darren Emerson’s award-winning interactive VR film In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats tracks the Acid House movement and rave scene in Coventry, UK. At ACMI Melbourne

    ‘The night is literally in my hands’: what it’s like to attend an acid house rave – in virtual reality

    Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwards
  • A still from Turbulence: Jamais Vu, a VR experience that simulates a chronic vestibular condition

    ‘Even closing my eyes is an intense movement’: the VR experience that simulates a serious neurological condition

    Ben Joseph Andrews’ chronic vestibular condition leaves him with migraines and dizziness – which he has transformed into a VR experience. Luke Buckmaster gives it a go

July 2023

  • Shayda, The Rooster, and La Chimera are all screening at the 2023 Melbourne international film festival.

    Melbourne international film festival 2023: 10 things to see and do, from BlackBerry to new Kelly Reichardt

    Plus Josh O’Connor as a grumpy archaeologist, Hugo Weaving as a scabby hermit, and a queer noir – all part of Miff’s 71st edition
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