Vertiginous! Hair-raising! Gasp-inducing! This was what I was expecting from The Soloist, a near feature-length 360 video about rock climber Alex Honnold, who made a name for himself by ascending some of…

The first scripted video produced for the Apple Vision Pro is a 17 minute short set on a submarine, during WWII, where all hell breaks loose when a torpedo attack hits. Things…

The word that comes to mind after finishing Outta Hand: playable. This game is so damn playable. Its core gameplay mechanic involves a very weird way of moving: you thrust yourself around…

The horror of repetition, or the terror of change? Developer Kotake Create’s eerie indie game The Exit 8, which premiered on Steam in 2023 and has now been ported into VR, is…

I wasn’t surprised, while watching the new Metallica immersive video, to find myself in the personal space of the band as they perform for a stadium crowd in Mexico CIty. In this…

In the not-too-distant future, when virtual reality’s embryonic years have become a dim memory, VR enthusiasts such as myself will recall certain things with a nostalgic twinkle in our eyes. For others,…

The Eli Roth-produced horror series The Faceless Lady is strikingly different to anything else on the market—while paradoxically bogged down by an aura of same-old same-old. Presented in the 180 video format,…

What can a remake of a 30-year-old video game tell us about the future of motion picture performances? Quite a lot, actually. “Volumetric video” isn’t exactly a sexy term but hot damn…

Marvel’s first production for the Apple Vision Pro intends us to feel like a superhero, traveling to far-flung corners of the cosmos and defeating maniacal villains. But the developers aren’t fooling anybody:…

One YouTube reviewer declared that Maestro “nails the feeling of being a conductor.” I’d pay good money to be in the company of an actual conductor as they listen to those words:…

What do you do when a figurine-sized space lady crashes into your lounge room, rabbiting on about a mission involving precious crystals? Help her out, of course! The narrative justification for Demeter’s…

Interesting drama, as this 38 minute immersive documentary reminds us, isn’t necessarily about what will or did happen; it can also be about what might have happened. The event—or non-event—around which On…

This 40-ish minute narrative experience from directors Marion Burger and Ilan Cohen unpacks the poignant personal story of a man who developed a condition known as aphasia, defined in an introductory text…