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What does virtual reality look like?

In the growing worlds of virtual reality, there are no rules. A medium still in its infancy, innovative game designers and artists are excitedly pushing beyond the rectangle of a screen and creating fully immersive moving images. Artist and VR sceptic Adham Faramawy has been stepping into these spaces for the latest podcast from Seriously... These images show the worlds he discovered.

Adham Faramawy at The Royal Academy with the HTV Vive, 2017. (Image courtesy of The Royal Academy.)

Richie's Plank Experience

In Richie's Plank Experience, the user must defy their natural instinct and walk a narrow plank high over a city. (Image courtesy of Richie's Plank Experience.)

INSIDE (In the Brain Cave)

INSIDE by Rebecca Allen is a VR art installation. The model of the brain was derived from MRI brain scans. (INSIDE (In the Brain Cave), 2016, image courtesy of Rebecca Allen.)

Kodon

Kodon is a sculpting app which allows the user to freely shape and create 3D objects in VR. (Floating, Spray Can in Hand, Kodon. Image courtesy of Adham Faramawy.)

States of Play: Roleplay Reality

Rindon Johnson's Away With You, at the States of Play: Roleplay Reality exhibition at FACT in Liverpool. The exhibition looks at video games and how the roles we play both on and offline shape our realities and runs until June 2018. (Rindon Johnson/FACT, States of Play: Roleplay Reality. Photo by Jon Barraclough.)

Step inside the Virtual Reality worlds and explore their relationships to art in The Art of Immersion.