Hints and tips:
...Not being in California for the launch this week, I popped over instead to Otherworld in east London, billed as “the world’s most immersive VR experience”....
...Maps that may have also incorporated otherworlds and spiritual realms. Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook to New Zealand....
...From out on the street, Otherworld looks like the headquarters of a futuristic cult....
...Nevertheless, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by Tom Faber’s trip to Otherworld, a virtual reality experience you can do with friends....
...Following their life cycles reveals that, when you really start to look, “every part of the world is an otherworld”....
...The Celtic people, Ní Dochartaigh tells us, incorporated a “Fifth Province” into the geography of ancient Ireland: “the magical ‘Otherworld’” between physical and spiritual realms....
...Chris Adams, chief executive of Otherworld, an immersive virtual reality experience, said the company was “getting loads of [sites] thrown at us” with landlords offering rents as much as 30 per cent below...
...Periodically Owen is whipped off to a mysterious otherworld by winged beings. Half realistic, half mystical, wholly successful....
...The novel is partly about Glasgow and partly about an otherworld, mixing social history, science fiction and whimsy, the text interspersed with intricate drawings. Gray was not alone....
...As Effie Truelove discovers her “kharacter” — Galloglass, the epitome of selfishness — she is exiled from her beloved Otherworld. Clever jokes and philosophical conundrums abound....
...Effie receives a terrifying analysis, and is banished from her beloved Otherworld. Meanwhile the evil Diberi are planning a monstrous ritual involving the sacrifice of 100 cats — and one maiden....
...Huffman and his team let the action play in a nebulous otherworld at the bottom of Dinah and Sam’s swimming pool, costuming the visiting strangers with too-obvious suicide vests, and losing what little tension...
...“In another world we might have grown up faster,” says Daniel, who narrates this present-day story, “but this was our strange, sylvan otherworld, so we did not.”...
...In 2018, Nasa will launch the James Webb Space Telescope, capable of unmasking the chemical fingerprints of any gases shrouding these seven wonders of the otherworld....
...But in the stellar otherworld of high-pulp screen hokum he is peerless....
...“Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System” is open daily at the Natural History Museum, London, from January 22 to May 15; nhm.ac.uk Photographs: Nasa Stereo Project/ Nasa/ JPL/ Michael Benson, Kinetikon...
...To outsiders, it was an inaccessible otherworld, a name on a map that spoke of mystery and mountains, monasteries and ancient wisdom....
...But when her father, the acclaimed press photographer Alisdair Macdonald, dies suddenly, she finds herself cast into that phantasmagorical otherworld of shock and grief that is perilously close to madness...
...George Tsypin’s sets and Jean Kalman’s lighting make a hallucinogenic otherworld from the vast Amsterdam stage, with an aerial boat skeleton, upside-down animals and the framework of houses suggesting a...
...were re-detained, turning back to stand wonderstruck, by an end-credits sequence of staggering beauty: a boat journey up the Tiber, threading old bridges with music and sunset colours from a dreamy Roman otherworld...
...It describes the otherworld of illness, its isolation and strange states of mind, where perception is filtered through the haze of the body’s distress....
...But this is no nature documentary – rather, Pelevin, a cult Russian satirist, blends the otherworld and the underworld to create a fast-paced, post modern mystery The narrator works as a prostitute in Moscow...
...During dinner, a hushed, tinkling affair, we slip into a golden otherworld of lonely spurs and floating islands lit, like a Turner seascape, with tinted steam....
...This is a vision of history as a baroque otherworld, as a sci-fi costume opera, as a Babel of visual and aural language-systems to which we have happily lost the dictionary....
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