[From The Telegraph; see also coverage of Stuart Turner’s appearance at WIRED2014 in Wired, where the story includes a 7:45 minute video, a longer article about him in Mancunian Matters, and his Robots and Cake blog] [Image: Stuart Turner operates the drone with a live video feed to his laptop. DAN ROWLANDS / MERCURY PRESS] Bedroom-bound quadriplegic develops drone to see the world Stuart Turner, who has spina bifida, uses head movements to pilot the camera-mounted flying device, thousands of miles from his Yorkshire home By Tom Brooks-Pollock, and agencies 25 Nov 2014 A quadriplegic man who is confined to…

[From The Verge, where the story includes a 3:31 minute video. A longer article in Billboard includes this analysis: “The illusion of ’being there’ or ‘presence’ is often invoked by VR enthusiasts. Did I feel like I was there? Not exactly. I felt like I was in the best movie theater of my life, though. The video resolution, sound and depth of field were remarkable. It took very little effort to suspend my disbelief.” ] Watch Paul McCartney perform in virtual reality with a new Android app By Adi Robertson on November 20, 2014 360-degree video company Jaunt is trying…

[From VICE Media, where you can watch a 0:47 minute trailer and the 32:47 minute program. For another status report on the topic see “When Porn and Virtual Reality Collide (NSFW)” from Gizmodo.] The Digital Love Industry: Investigating the Future of Love and Sex in the Digital Age ​Soon, virtual reality is going to crash into our lives in a way we never even imagined. Though dating and masturbating have long been commandeered by the web, it’s only been as a kind of middleman. Now we’re nearing the possibility of falling in love with your computer, as meeting your dream…

[From Gizmodo, where the story includes several more images and a 3:11 minute video] The NASA Playground That Takes Virtual Reality To a Whole New Level Brent Rose November 18, 2014 Gizmodo’s Space Camp is all about the under-explored side of NASA. From robotics to medicine to deep-space telescopes to art. All this week we’ll be coming at you direct from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shedding a light on this amazing world. You can follow the whole series here. We’ve seen how NASA recreates the vacuum of space right here on Earth, but what about the gravity…

[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…