Virtual and augmented reality
Virtual and augmented reality
Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art
German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology
Endemic obsolescence: the shortened lifespan of digital art
In the supposed permanence of cyberspace, modifications to software and the demands on processing power mean artwork has a shorter life than might be expected
Ten art world things that have happened in VR since Meta bought Oculus 10 years ago
Virtual reality has not taken the art world by storm in the past decade, despite the attention given to the format during the global pandemic of 2020-21, but the advent of powerful new mixed-reality headsets, led by the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest, promise a new experience for creators and users
Face time: how the art world is preparing to work with the Apple Vision Pro
The mixed reality headset offers astonishing visual quality. But, as it goes on sale at $3,500 a go, how will it enhance curators' dreams of giving global access to high-fidelity experiences of gallery and museum shows?
Going big: digital artists who show on a grand scale at immersive institutions
The rise of huge immersive venues, with giant, wraparound programmable LED screens, has provided a new canvas, and potential new audience, for digital artists. We look at four of the main players, from widely varied backgrounds
From Apple's Vision Pro goggles to digital NG200—six things to look out for in art and tech in 2024
The coming year has buttons for everyone to press including a celebration of the computer artist Harold Cohen and Art Dubai Digital
Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
Hilma af Klint goes multimedia: NFTs launched on Pharrell Williams's Goda platform are latest digital offering of Abstract artist's work
The pioneering Swedish artist is having a moment, with a newly-released biopic, new VR and AR experiences and NFT editions
Walk with Hilma af Klint: AR brings works by the mystic mother of abstraction to London's Regent's Park
Seventy-eight years after her death, the artist famed for her geometric and spiral forms, has realised her goal of creating a giant temple for her work— thanks to cutting-edge technology
Olafur Eliasson launches a virtual reality work and NFT commissioned by MetaKovan—the man who paid $69.3m for 'that' Beeple
The Icelandic-Danish artist talks exclusively to The Art Newspaper about his viewer-first approach to his work Your view matter, which is available to all in AR and VR
Getty Museum and Apple team up to recreate William Blake's terrifying visions in augmented reality
Launched at Apple's new shop in London, the artist duo Tin&Ed worked with hip-hop producer Just Blaze to create a new immersive experience
JR in AR: artists wants people to leave portraits in the metaverse in new project
App in partnership with Superblue to be rolled out across cities worldwide
What is the metaverse and why does it matter to the art world? Experts weigh in and predict its future impact
A dream or a marketing campaign? All hype or all-important? The Art Newspaper’s XR panel looks at the ways the metaverse has become a part of the field
Maximalist magic: Marco Brambilla's Heaven's Gate plays the scale game in virtual reality
A seamless collage of film footage—at Pérez Art Museum Miami and on Oculus headsets—tells a life story through an ambitious visual tribute to Hollywood glamour
Immersive, interactive and a great way to display NFTs: Falko Alexander Gallery’s expansive VR exhibition
With its first virtual venture, an emerging gallery in Cologne removes the barrier between real life and virtual reality
An important project somewhat marred by its execution: the Corning Museum's VR recreation of a lost glass drawing room in a London palace
The virtual reality programme remakes Robert Adam's 18th-century interior works and can be view on the best-selling Oculus Quest 2 headset
England riots 10 years on: augmented reality work gives voice to arrested protestors
Baff Akoto’s Up:Rise piece can be accessed via QR codes on posters in London, Liverpool and Bristol
Concert from Bangladesh: virtual reality music event revives 1971 Beatles charity concert—but without the white saviour complex
British-South Asian artist Shezad Dawood and curator Diana Campbell have collaborated with a group of Bangladeshi creatives to create a virtual stage celebrating the country as it turns 50
Clean, seamless and free from distraction: VR exhibition opens UBS corporate collection of blue-chip art to the public
Presented on Artland's virtual reality platform, the works on show are a time capsule of the downtown New York art scene—our expert panel review the experience
The splendours of the Incan Empire are coming to Boca Raton in blockbuster show
The comprehensive exhibitions features never before shown loans of ancient golden objects and a VR tour of Machu Picchu
Can't get into Frieze New York? See some AR works by Kaws, Precious Okoyomon and Cao Fei instead
Unfolding Shrines is some of the most ambitious augmented reality art we have seen in the last year
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
A year of viewing art virtually: the best and worst AR and VR work created during the pandemic
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
Memories of Myst: Substrata, a new artist-run virtual exhibition, is like entering a magical afterlife
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
15 minutes of frame time: solve puzzles to bring a (virtual) Met masterpiece into your home
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
Unreal City, an AR art tour of London, is opened to the world—with some limitations
Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events
Disembodied Behaviors: an ultra-real virtual art show that sears the mind-haze of 2020's unending March back to a state of clarity
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
A reference point for the art world: the Sol LeWitt estate, Lindsay Aveilhé and Microsoft deliver a richly immersive, interactive app
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
A top-tier way to explore art in the era of social distancing: Eazel, a platform for virtual galleries, presents White Cube Hong Kong's project 'Encounter'
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
From the archive | Black Lives Matter murals—can truly public art exist on private platforms powered by private algorithms?
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality