Virtual reality Category
Turn your mousepad into a cyberdelic portal
Posted on March 10, 2023 Leave a Comment
Why settle for something boring and black when you can access the internet with your VERY OWN HAND-PAINTED PSYCHEDELIC PORTAL?! – made by me? This is a mini version of my WipeOut painting, cut into a circle and printed onto a mousepad to make your daily trips into cyperspace a bit more sci-fi and a […]
My newest painting: WipeOut, a portal for your wall
Posted on January 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
Do you want a canvas art print of my latest work for your wall? The video below features me and the art print on canvas of my newest painting, WipeOut, on a wooden frame, ready for your wall. 60 cm x 60 cm x 1 cm. For sale! WipeOut is your very own meditation portal […]
Cyberdelics: The Trippy Machines
Posted on September 27, 2019 4 Comments
My article on Breaking Convention is out – the largest conference on psychedelic research in Europe, taking place at Greenwich University in London. There was so much going on during the three days, and I could have written ten articles about it. My focus in this one, which was published in this week’s edition of […]
The art of dying in virtual reality
Posted on January 20, 2017 Leave a Comment
The most scary thing I have ever tried in virtual reality was a ski jump. Whauw, that felt so real. Virtual reality is an amazing tool for exploring your phobias, but the technology can also be used for many other things. The hyper focus of the VR headsets can be very useful for exploring meditation and altered […]
Reaching the new audience (and why that’s important)
Posted on November 24, 2016 Leave a Comment
On Nvemebr 17th 2016 I did a talk at the Player – Game-seminar at Cinemateket in Copenhagen. The talk was about my work as a gaming journalist, and I managed to squeeze in four (!!!) screenshots from Aztec Challenge (a favourite from he 80s) and three pictures of Nathan Drake (of course) – and several (true) claims that […]
This VR game is a cosmic experience
Posted on August 9, 2016 Leave a Comment
This (below) is what the Land’s End area in San Francisco actually looks like (when you stand on halfway down the stairs, with a iPhone): Yes, I know, it looks like a magical adventure puzzle, like Myst. But Land’s End is also the name of a virtual reality game made by the magnificent studio UsTwo […]
“The PC is the LSD of the 90s”
Posted on April 28, 2016 Leave a Comment
FINALLY I got the chance to quote Timothy Leary in one of my game reviews. Two decades ago he said “The PC is the LSD of the 90s”. I have the quote marked out with a neon yellow pen in one of my old The Face magazines from around 1992. If he only knew what […]
Can we play grief?
Posted on March 31, 2016 Leave a Comment
These are (most of) the slides from my talk at SpilBar #29: Thank You For Playing at Cinemateket on Thursday March 30th – plus some notes and links to the games and articles I mentioned. I wrote a review of That Dragon, Cancer in Jyllands-Posten in February 2016. The game got a lot of attention from […]
Reality is not enough
Posted on August 17, 2014 Leave a Comment
My article about virtual reality gadgets at GamesCom is in Jyllands-Posten Indblik today. In this photo, I am fighing an armoured knight with some evil medieval weapons, shortly before being eaten by a dragon. And this is where I meet the monster in the Virtualizer, wearing Oculus. You can read all about it in the […]