PickVidsBest VR, AR & spatial computing Videos
The 49 VR, AR & spatial computing videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 9 intermediate, 38 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Meta VR, UploadVR, Google.
1 Month with the Xreal Air AR Glasses
A one-month review of the Xreal (formerly Nreal) Air AR glasses by The Tech Chap, covering unboxing, setup, what the display looks like, and how mixed reality differs from AR.
Near-Eye Light Field Displays
A SIGGRAPH 2013 demo from Douglas Lanman and NVIDIA of near-eye light field displays, which allow much thinner head-mounted displays that still show accurate focus and depth cues.
The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota
A surreal multimedia TEDxSarasota performance by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, held on 12/12/12, mixing performance art with talk about imagination and creativity.
holoportation: virtual 3D teleportation in real-time (Microsoft Research)
Microsoft Research demonstrates holoportation, which reconstructs and compresses high-quality 3D models of people in real time and sends them anywhere.
Project Glass: One day...
Google's early concept video for Project Glass, showing a wearer navigating a city with augmented-reality glasses that surface contextual information.
Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Tangible Holographic Plasma (SIGGRAPH)
A SIGGRAPH demo from Yoichi Ochiai's group of aerial and volumetric graphics drawn by focused femtosecond lasers with computational holography.
Waymo 360° Experience: A Fully Autonomous Driving Journey
Waymo's 2018 360-degree video lets viewers look around inside a fully driverless ride.
Google Glass
A short 2012 promotional-style video of Google Glass showing what the headset was meant to do.
WWDC 2023 — June 5 | Apple
Apple's full WWDC 2023 keynote, covering the 15-inch MacBook Air, new Mac hardware, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and the unveiling of Apple Vision Pro.
Ready Player One - Nolan Sorrento sells ads
A short clip from Ready Player One in which Nolan Sorrento pitches selling ad space in the Oasis, including a joke about selling much of a user's visual field.
Whale Surprise Jumps into a Gym in Mixed Reality (Exciting) by Magic Leap
A short Magic Leap promo clip of a whale breaching through a gym floor in mixed reality.
Using a Headless MacBook with Vision Pro!
Luke Miani removes the screen from a MacBook Air and tests using it headless as the host for an Apple Vision Pro virtual display.
Say hello to Project Tango!
Google ATAP's short 2014 introduction to Project Tango, a mobile device effort to give phones and tablets a human-scale understanding of space and motion.
Silicon Valley Keenan Feldspar's VR (S4E8)
A scene from Silicon Valley season 4 episode 8 featuring Keenan Feldspar's VR product.
Facebook gives a glimpse of metaverse, its planned virtual reality world
Guardian News coverage of Mark Zuckerberg's 2021 reveal of Facebook's metaverse plans alongside the rename to Meta.
The Virtual Reality device from Disclosure
A scene from the film Disclosure showing its virtual reality interface, including a 3D file system visualizer.
World Builder (high quality)
World Builder is a short film by Bruce Branit in which a man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves.
living with lag - an oculus rift experiment
A Swedish fiber provider's short experiment in which volunteers wear Oculus Rift headsets that add lag to their view of real life.
Introducing Word Lens
A one-minute demo of Word Lens, an iPhone app that translates printed text in real time by overlaying the translation on the camera view.
Magic Leap | Original Concept Video
Magic Leap's original 2015 concept video, made with Weta Workshop, showing what mixed reality could look like.
E3 12: John Carmack's VR Presentation
A Gamereactor interview at E3 2012 with John Carmack, who shows his lag-free head-mounted display running DOOM 3 BFG Edition.
Improving VR with NVIDIA’s Foveated Rendering
A one-minute NVIDIA research demo of foveated rendering for VR using SMI eye tracking.
THROUGH THE LENSES - QUEST 2 vs Reverb G2 vs INDEX! 90Hz Quest
A through-the-lens comparison of the Oculus Quest 2, HP Reverb G2 and Valve Index, capturing what each headset's display actually looks like.
Jeeesus WEPT!
A Community clip in which Dean Pelton explores a virtual reality environment, including a blooper moment.