Nov 19, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: A Wild Look at What It's Like to Paint Inside an Oculus Rift

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[Tilt Brush](http://www.tiltbrush.com/), an app from San Francisco development company [Skillman & Hackett](http://skillmanandhackett.com/), could be the MS Paint of modern VR.
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Tilt Brush features traditional brushes, but in addition to modifying strokes can be made to glow, illuminating a space, or filled with particle effects to simulate snow.

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Where Photoshop and its ilk feature bland gray palettes, Tilt Brush's selections are announced with Pixar-esqe animations.
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Taken together, the result is a weird, yet compelling, fusion of Chagall and 1980s cyberpunk.

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Old-school UI paradigms are reimagined: Color palettes and selection tools that exist in the user's peripheral vision, for instance, are blurred until the artist reorients her head.
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Tilt Brush exists in a design space between Photoshop and CAD software. Users draw on a 2-D plane but can shift the orientation of that plane to fill out a space or to define a 3-D object.

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[Tilt Brush](http://www.tiltbrush.com/#intro) doesn't have a release date, but you can follow its progress over at [Skillman & Hackett's website](http://skillmanandhackett.com/).

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