VR could change human consciousness – if we get there, says Chris Milk

The film-maker and co-founder of virtual-reality storytelling app Vrse predicts a big future for the medium, but admits he has more questions than answers

This guy built Thor’s hammer using an electromagnet and fingerprint sensor

Mjölnir is real! Or at least, as real as you can call a hammer which only works on metal surfaces

Star Wars Battlefront: what the biggest beta test in EA’s history told us

Attracting over nine million players, the Battlefront beta was a huge success for Electronic Arts. But did it pose more questions than it answered?

Michael Fassbender: fearless performer with a craftsman’s approach to the art of acting

His three forthcoming films – Assassin’s Creed, Macbeth and Steve Jobs – function as a sort of cross-section of where the extraordinarily diverse actor now finds himself

Ryan Adams, Bastien Héry’s hair, pylons, a squidgy star, some Twitter – REVIEWED

Every Friday, we review things that desperately need appraising but seldom receive the critical treatment they deserve. We also review things that really don’t need appraising at all. We’ll review your suggestions, too – suggest in the comments or @guideguardian

The Angry Birds movie trailer: the hottest film of 2012 is coming

That game you used to play is getting a full-length feature and the trailer gives us a first look at favourite characters like Nameless Red Bird and Black Blowy-Up Bird

The innovators: levitating lightbulbs take design back to the future

Flyte lightbulb levitates and rotates in the air using a series of magnets and which is powered without touching

Hardcore Henry review – plotless, characterisation-free cinema du Xbox

Director Ilya Naishuller’s gory, first-person action film is like a video game in which we leap, climb, kill and find ourselves bored silly

Whatever happened to Minority Report’s technology predictions?

Leap Motion laid off staff and Project Soli remains unknown - wider adoption of computers that can interpret motion proves more difficult than predicted

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction cast wishlist is leaked online

Leaked documents published on Reddit hint that John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman were not Quentin Tarantino’s first choices for cult movie

Venice film festival 2015: Golden Lion goes to Venezuela’s From Afar

Unheralded first Venezuelan film to be selected for Venice competition takes top prize, with Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa taking second spot

Star Wars droid BB-8 is real and you can take him home

Robotics company Sphero partners with Disney to make pint-sized version of new Star Wars droid kids and big kids can now own

Everest: how Jake Gyllenhaal got to grips with the world’s highest mountain

As his film about the ill-fated 1996 expedition opens the Venice film festival, director Baltasar Kormákur explains how he and his cast coped with difficult conditions and delicate subject matter

Can Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed save the video game movie?

Will Ubisoft’s bloodthirsty romp through history consign previous celluloid terrors to the dustbin of history?