Nic Cage, inveterate yeller and American treasure, has a new film coming out April 6. Titled The Humanity Bureau, it’s a sci-fi film about the coming disasters wrought by climate change, and some ill-considered responses to that crisis. But more importantly, you can watch Cage in VR.
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences rarely hands out the Special Achievement Academy Award, possibly because doing so is an acknowledgement that the medium can change and grow in new and weird ways. It’s exclusively for important or exciting achievements in films that doesn’t specifically relate to an…
Song Exploder, the podcast hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway in which musicians break down their own songs piece by piece and provide insight into their songwriting process, is giving its listeners the opportunity to learn about music through an even more immersive experience. Built using WebVR, a Google-produced API that’s…
Sony’s PlayStation is working with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan to create a non-game virtual reality experience based on the series, Polygon reports, offering an immersive recreation of the show’s world to fans who are too scared to sell meth. There’s no word on when it might be available, other than the fact…
By all accounts, Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty is funnier, more exciting, and more existentially terrifying than real life, and now anyone who has been wishing they could ditch their problems and enjoy a simpler existence alongside an alcoholic scientist and his grandson can finally achieve that dream thanks to Rick And…
The Simon game’s never really gone away, because there are so few simple pleasures in life anymore: like reading without interruption, or unquestioningly carrying out the orders of a machine with four lights. But Hasbro has had to make some adjustments to the game over the years, including offering an Air version that…
Even when she’s not posing as a fertility goddess in front of half the flowers in Manhattan, being Beyoncé is probably pretty fun. She works hard, for sure, but she’s also obscenely rich and world famous. So we probably shouldn’t be too surprised that Queen Bey was less than impressed by the Magic Leap, the VR headset…
ABBA fans got some tangentially-related good news last month, when word came that a Muriel’s Wedding musical—which would almost certainly abound with the Swedish pop group’s tunes—was underway. This, after the quartet comprising Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad briefly reunited…
This Sunday The Simpsons will reach another milestone, airing its 600th episode—“Treehouse Of Horror XXVII,” debuting this Sunday, October 16—complete with a virtual-reality couch gag made in collaboration with Google. Though news of the VR twist broke last week, The A.V. Club first learned about it at this year’s…
The Simpsons is rapidly approaching its 600th episode of couch gags, blackboard sayings, and arguments about when the show stopped being good. To commemorate the anniversary (and/or throw fire onto said cantankerous discussions), Fox has announced that it’s planning a virtual reality-enhanced couch gag for the show’s…
The future is no longer now. The future was yesterday, and now we’re in the future of the future. Skeptical? You won’t be when you learn that Hulu is picking up two television programs that you’ll only be able to watch with one of those virtual reality devices strapped to your face. Variety reports that both shows…
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It has been two millennia since we first began waiting for Christ’s big comeback, a period of reclusive, semi-retirement in which the only way we’ve been able to experience Jesus is through reissues of his earlier works, cover versions, and—some say—in your heart. But as we’ve already seen with Tupac and Liberace,…
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A skull, a globe, a violin, a book, a candlestick, and some other assorted props bounce around merrily to the rhythm of some blippy-sounding synth music. Today this primitive attempt at a virtual reality music video seems campy and dated, but 20 years ago, this is what the future looked and sounded like. Over at The…
Oculus is touting the Rift as a VR experience that’s “unlike anything else you’ve experienced,” which is odd since virtual reality essentially recreates you know, reality, just with a focus on its cooler parts, like hanging out on the Enterprise-D. (But on not the holodeck, that’d be too meta). But the Facebook-owned…
If you haven’t yet gotten the chance to try virtual reality technology, all you really need to know is that it’s a lot like a weekend in Las Vegas. There’s lots of cool stuff to look at, but nothing you can actually touch. All the people around you seem almost real. And if sunlight happens to creep in, the illusion is…
Dungeons & Dragons, long the game of choice for nerdy social introverts, has always been hampered by one incontrovertible weakness: This game designed to foster social interactions among people has required you to actually be in the physical presence of other people. Sure, you can play online, but there’s just no…
Since there are few things enlightened white guys love posting about on Facebook more than Bernie Sanders and virtual reality, CNN decided to combine those two interests for its upcoming Democratic presidential debate. On October 13, the news channel will stream the debate live in virtual reality using technology from…
The Star Wars franchise has always prided itself on being at the forefront of cinematic technology, whether that means creating stunning starship battles using practical effects or making a really stupid looking CGI flying pear. This latest bit of Star Wars tech splits the difference: It’s not nearly as cool as the…
