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The Void: World’s First Virtual Reality Theme Park Coming Soon

“Why play a game when you can live it?” ask the creators of The Void, the world’s first virtual reality theme park slated to open in Utah in summer 2016. Gamers will soon be able to immerse ...

Point & Shoot: 8-Bit Gameboy Gun Takes and Prints Pictures

This fun bit of retrofuturistic tech genius looks like an ‘80s designer’s idea of a high-tech camera smashed up with a toy gun, and it actually works, taking and printing photos. Russian ...

CastAR 3D: See the Future of Work & Play in Augmented Reality

In this new video, Technical Illusions, the company behind CastAR, a hybrid augmented and virtual reality headset, shows off a series of amazing everyday applications of their technology, ...

Real Holodeck: 360-Degree Immersive Home Gaming Environment

Using a series of networked camera-and-projector units, this working demonstration turns an entire living room into and interactive gaming environment. Dubbed RoomAlive (a successor to ...

Flip for Fun: 4 Clever Pool Tables that Convert & Transform

Pool is one of those great American hobbies that never seems to get old. As much as we might want to play every day, not everyone has the space to fit an entire pool table into their home. These ...

Crossroad of Realities: Photography Subverts Gaming Scenes

As improved game graphics generate increasingly photo-realistic spaces, projects like this blur the boundaries between virtual and real in perception-warping ways. Test and see for yourself: how ...

Apartment Arcade: Passersby Play Game Through Window

A large storefront window in a Belgian designer's work/live space invites passersby to pause and play an arcade game with a fun interactive installation. Where others living in such a busy urban ...

Escher + Inception: Tour a Digital World that Defies Physics

This video thrives on convention - specifically: breaking with it. In the same vein as M.C. Escher, The Matrix or, more recently, Inception (or even the building flips and slides in ...

All Bets Are Off: 10 Crapped-Out Abandoned Casinos

At these 10 abandoned casinos, the high rollers are laying low, the cards are all jokers, the wheel's stopped spinning and the dice have all thrown snake eyes. ...

Surround Screen: ‘Illumiroom’ Immersive Gaming Projection

What ever happened to in-home 3D technology and virtual reality? Perhaps futurists got a bit ahead of themselves, and maybe the way our eyes and minds focus means that many entertainment ...

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