Anybody who’s watched a film in an IMAX cinema, partly shot using IMAX cameras, understands how changes in aspect ratio can trigger a visceral response. For the uninitiated, here’s what happens. The…

This elegantly crafted dioramic experience (available on Apple Vision Pro) follows a scientist who’s alone and forlorn on an island, which was once an exquisite place of refuge but is now barren…

Fairytale-esque narration is strewn throughout The Midnight Walk, with lots of talk of strange histories and recondite lores inside a Halloweenish world of perpetual night. The dulcet-voiced male narrator has a mysteriously…

AmazeVR’s Zara Larsson concert got me thinking about how far things have come since I first watched a musician belting out a song in virtual reality. That was a 360 video back…

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:…