Testing Microsoft’s HoloLens

Unlike Google Glass or Oculus Rift, Microsoft’s new HoloLens headset inserts virtual objects into your real-life world. Although the augmented reality glasses are still in their prototype phase, Microsoft gave GigaOm a demo of its four current applications: Holobuilder, Holostudio, Onsight and a HoloLens version of Skype. Each allow for vastly different functionality including 3D modeling, gaming, Mars exploration and video-chatting. HoloLens is slated to …

Rick Owens’ Peepshow Pieces

Nudity at a fashion show is usually nothing to cause a commotion over, but at a recent Paris Fashion Week menswear show, designer Rick Owens set onlookers abuzz by sending four of his male models down the runway with peepholes for their penises. Owens is known for his dark and unconventional aesthetic, but his latest flesh-flashing pieces surprised even the most seasoned attendees and earned …

Meditation Nightclub in Las Vegas

A new type of nightclubbing is taking over at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The hotel’s newly appointed artist-in-residence, Lia Chavez, has developed an interactive “meditative nightclub” that actively analyzes participant’s brainwaves as they respond to computer-generated lights and sounds. The show then comes full circle by translating the cerebral data into the very musical and visual stimuli that the user was first introduced …