Latest articles by Dan Oliver
I just played First Encounters on the Meta Quest 3 – and it's a game-changer
Meta's new, standalone VR headset has a raft of new features, but it's the full-colour passthrough that's really turning heads.
Meta Quest 3 review: a new gold standard in standalone VR
Meta has pulled off something very special.
Review: WD My Cloud Mirror NAS (4TB)
The Western Digital My Cloud Mirror, a NAS with pizzazz (comparatively)
Add digital signage to your studio for under £60
Don’t bin those old displays. Here's how you can transform them into digital signage for your studio.
Spinning tops: where art meets engineering
Discover the new craze that combines symmetry, physics and art via collectable spinning tops.
Get your limited edition Design Annual today!
This 224-page casebound book captures the year's design highlights in stunning detail.
Get into DIY marketing with the PixMax badge maker
Discover how you can combine your design skills to create some bespoke marketing material.
Hands on with the ultimate VR experience
Discover how to get the most from virtual reality, as we reveal all in our VR guide.
LEGO Dimensions: UX triumph or tragedy?
LEGO’s reputation is on the line as it enters the toys-to-life gaming arena, says Dan Oliver.
World's thinnest knife tops Kickstarter after just 24 hours
Smashing its $20k target in just 24 hours, the WildCard is taking product design to new dimensions.
New app lets you create Illustrator vectors from smartphone photos
Take photos of real world shapes, and turn them into instant Illustrator vectors with Adobe Shape CC.
Behance launches tool to help designers find work
Could Behance Talent Search be your new favourite recruitment tool?
Photoshop adds new killer feature for extracting assets
As part of 20 big updates to Creative Cloud being unveiled today at its Max 2014 event, Adobe has launched Creative Cloud Extract.
The 7 greatest CG aliens of all time
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7 marvels of motion capture
We pay tribute to the biggest motion-capture movies of the past decade.
6 movie stars reborn in CG
Real or computer generated? We investigate the new world of the CG-enhanced actor.
The 8 best CG movie monsters
Discover the greatest CG movie monsters, and the studios that spawned them!
10 stunning motion graphics in music videos
Prepare to be inspired, as we reveal outstanding examples of motion graphics in music videos.
Cinema's 5 greatest CG environments
We look back through the history of VFX, and explore the most amazing worlds CG artists have created.
