[From The Verge, where the story includes more pictures] How to live for a month in virtual reality Artist Mark Farid will spend 28 days as someone else in ‘Seeing I’ By Adi Robertson on November 18, 2014 Next year, artist Mark Farid wants to give up a month of his life to virtual reality. If a crowdfunding campaign succeeds, he’ll spend 28 days in a gallery, wearing a VR headset and a pair of noise-canceling headphones. For the duration of the show, all he’ll experience will be video and audio captured by a complete stranger, going about their daily…

[From The Verge; more information, including video material, is available from Samsung] Samsung announces Project Beyond, a 360-degree 3D camera that creates virtual reality worlds By Nathan Ingraham on November 12, 2014 Samsung just announced Project Beyond at its 2014 Developer Conference — it’s a 360-degree camera module that captures everything around it in 3D. It captures a gigapixel of 3D footage every second, and can stream that footage back to someone wearing Samsung’s Gear VR headset, essentially transporting them into that world. Essentially, Project Beyond continuously creates a virtual 3D environment of wherever it is placed — Samsung said…

[From io9, where the post includes a video clip and more images; the full episode is available on the South Park web site] Behold The Terrifying Real-Life South Park From Last Night’s Episode Meredith Woerner Thursday November 13, 2014 Last night, South Park used Oculus Rift and The Matrix to fall into a virtual reality hole where nothing was what it seemed. And everyone was being told that their reality “wasn’t real”—over and over, until we ended up just as lost as the kids. And then there was a twist. Warning: spoilers [are below and] in [the embedded] clip [from] the…

[From The Guardian, where the story includes more images] [Image: The Who’s Oculus Rift app will be released in early 2015. Photograph: PR] The Who to launch virtual reality app for Facebook’s Oculus Rift Fly-through app will celebrate band’s 50th anniversary, alongside 3D retrospective apps for Android and iOS Stuart Dredge Monday 10 November 2014 I’d always hoped I’d fly through a virtual reality environment on a Lambretta listening to some of The Who’s greatest hits before I got old. Now I have, courtesy of an official app being developed for Facebook’s Oculus Rift headset. The app, which is due…

[From TBI; more information, including demo videos, can be found on the DEEP web site] Arte makes VR move with Polar Sea 360 by Pascale Paoli-Lebailly November 14, 2014 A new cross media experience about the Arctic region and the impact of global warming is coming to screens, combining TV, web and virtual reality elements and blending adventure, science and arts.…

[From Business Insider Australia, where the story includes an additional picture] Freelancer Has A Robot In Its Office That Has Staff Working In Ways They Never Imagined Pete Cooper, Freelancer.com  November 13, 2014 So our first telepresence robot arrived in the office late last week. It started out interesting then became an experience none of us will forget. Our robot looks like a weird iPad mounted on a segway, sort of like a stick with wheels that should look precarious but through the magic of software actually drives with a remarkable smooth and almost statuesque elegance. Until it hits a…

[From MIT’s Technology Review] Virtual Reality Aims for the Mobile Phone A smartphone-based virtual reality headset from Samsung and Oculus VR could make the technology more accessible, but it also demonstrates a new set of challenges. By Simon Parkin on November 12, 2014 Max Cohen, head of mobile at Oculus VR, the virtual reality startup bought by Facebook this year for $2 billion, is unequivocal: the dominant way most consumers will experience virtual reality will be on mobile devices. “PCs and dedicated machines will always have more power, but at some point, graphics become ‘good enough’ on a mobile device…