It was a big year for immersive art, with major institutions getting involved, new virtual reality kit, and a groundbreaking event in Venice

An extended reality platform being developed by a Scottish university allows users to “teleport” around virtual museums

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

In March 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR, heralding a new era in extended reality. Will the arrival of the Apple Vision Pro move the medium from artistic experiment to widespread use?

The rise of huge immersive venues, with giant, wraparound programmable LED screens, has provided a new canvas, and potential new audience, for digital artists. We look at four of the main players, from widely varied backgrounds

A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari

The pioneering Swedish artist is having a moment, with a newly-released biopic, new VR and AR experiences and NFT editions

Seventy-eight years after her death, the artist famed for her geometric and spiral forms, has realised her goal of creating a giant temple for her work— thanks to cutting-edge technology

Tech developers are collaborating with museum curators to build a digital “time machine” to revisit lost installations

Artists and developers using VR have made huge leaps, but a better user experience is long overdue

Abstract artist has collaborated with VR specialists to create a work for Art Basel

A Doug Aitken exhibition in Venice shows how VR can be useful to the art world, but the medium has standalone merits

The artist’s new exhibition is a virtual-only show in collaboration with four galleries and Vortic VR

Eternal Notre Dame will raise funds towards the €1bn restoration of the fire-ravaged cathedral

A dream or a marketing campaign? All hype or all-important? The Art Newspaper’s XR panel looks at the ways the metaverse has become a part of the field

Plus, Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain and Marco Brambilla's VR work at Pérez Art Museum in Miami

With its first virtual venture, an emerging gallery in Cologne removes the barrier between real life and virtual reality

British-South Asian artist Shezad Dawood and curator Diana Campbell have collaborated with a group of Bangladeshi creatives to create a virtual stage celebrating the country as it turns 50

Metapurse, the company owned by the buyer of the $69.3m NFT, plans to create an online “monument this piece deserves"

Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events

Chiara Zuanni wants to capture the outpouring of online art offerings both as an archive of the Covid-19 era and as a source of inspiration for art organisations all over the world

As the art world rushes to digitise we look at the different ways to create digital renderings of works

ArtAncient has created a VR experience of the marble bust to enliven the digital version of the now-cancelled New York fair

The 360 degree film Rebuilding Notre-Dame—on show in Paris—allows visitors to once again "step inside" the cathedral

Augmented reality art has had a potentially huge captive audience during the coronavirus lockdown. We look at the pros and cons of the technology in a domestic setting

New co-operative grew out of a WhatsApp group set up in March for galleries to share advice in the wake of UK’s coronavirus lockdown

Potential of new digital technologies comes to the fore as 5G connectivity expands and specialist equipment becomes more user-friendly

In lockdown, many galleries have had a Damascene moment with online programming

Just as mega dealers have bought up prime real estate, so too are they dominating bandwidth in the virtual landscape