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Google’s Tilt Brush on the HTC Vive VR headset will make you feel like a 3D artist

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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One of my favorite apps on the HTC Vive Pre virtual reality headset is Google’s Tilt Brush, a 3D painting program that lets your turn the virtual world into your canvas.

This kind of VR experience could very well be one of the killer apps for virtual reality, which tech advisor Digi-Capital predicts will be a $30 billion market by 2020. It may not look like much in my hands, but real artists can truly create some eye-popping virtual paintings that are more like museum experiences. I expect that VR art is going to be one of the best uses for the medium, as people figure out what they want to do in the new worlds that we’re about to create.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.