We really love Tilt Brush. The VR art tool for the HTC Vive is an unusually stimulating creative outlet and the source of many an incredible painting at the hands of Opposable artists Alix Briskham and Lewis Gilliard.
It’s also one of our favourite things to show people who are new to VR - demonstrating not only the amazing technical abilities of the kit, but also the potential practical uses of Virtual Reality. We doff our proverbial caps to the team at Skillman & Hackett.
So, in our endless efforts to get VR out to the masses, we decided to do something a little special. Something rooted not only in our love for VR, but also our love for the city we call home (that’s Bristol, UK by the way).
As anyone who lives in the UK will know, Bristol has a long history of street art and collective creativity. As the home of Banksy, See No Evil and near-endless pieces of fantastic street art, Bristol is a hub for graffiti culture.
It seemed apt then that we host a VR graffiti jam - in part to bring VR to a whole new group of people, but also to back up our view that Bristol is fast becoming the home of Virtual Reality in the UK. So over the course of a day, Bristol’s Watershed cinema and Pervasive Media Studio hosted our graffiti jam. We brought an HTC Vive along, gathered as many local graffiti artists as we could muster and let them loose on Tilt Brush. The results were incredibly diverse and interestingly abstract.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtoLmZwbyG0
All of this madness is just one step on our path to VR World Congress, our huge VR conference set for April of 2016.