Guest writer Sebastian Bos takes a historical look at virtual reality's affinity and maturity has been symbiotic with the growth in popularity of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. Although, as Sebastian explores, it hasn't always been plain sailing. Sebastian Bos is...

It looks like backers of Sixense's successful STEM Kickstarter campaign may soon receive news of their long-awaited motion controllers. In the mean time, Sixense have released footage of the game that will ship to supporters of the campaign, an extremely...

SpaceVR has now secured the funds to shoot a 360-degree camera into space, where it will hitch a ride along the observation deck of the International Space Station (ISS). With only days before the conclusion of the team's Kickstarter campaign,...

Allison Road is a survival horror game currently in production by Lilith, a London based studio. If the trailer doesn't make you jump even a little, especially at the idea of playing in VR where even a well-made atmosphere can be...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1035872323/spacevr-step-into-space SpaceVR, the Ryan Holmes-founded San Francisco startup that wants to build a 360-degree video platform for space footage, has re-launched its Kickstarter geared towards putting its VR camera Overview One on the Cupola module of the International Space Station...

From the makers of the award-winning documentary Empire comes a 360 degree documentary that aims to put you face-to-face with the most endangered species on the planet: the northern white rhinoceros. Called The Ark, documantarians Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill are bringing their collective...

Control VR, a motion input solution for VR that raised nearly $450,000 on Kickstarter, appears to be in critical condition, unable to deliver on its promises without significant help. A June 2014 Kickstarter for Control VR, a motion input device capable...

Kat Walk, the newest addition to the lineup of VR treadmills, has raised a total of $149,278, putting them well over their initial $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal. KatVR, the China based company behind the VR locomotion device, have announced that non-Kickstarter pre-orders...

Kat Walk, a VR treadmill from China based company KatVR, can now add its name to the list of omnidirectional treadmills currently in pre-order, which includes the likes of Cyberith Virtualizer and Virtuix Omni. KatVR has yet to release any news...

Sphericam 2's Kickstarter has come to an end today after having more than tripled their initial funding goal of $150,000. The little baseball-sized 360 camera is now promising some pretty ambitious extra features thanks to the added funding. Sphericam already...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1251129310/vr-camp-at-burning-man?ref=nav_search Burning Man, a week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert that showcases the weird and wonderful, will be getting a VR Camp—an enclave of VR enthusiasts that should find themselves at home among the unbound imagination and psychedelia that often shows up...

Joining longstanding names Virtuix and Cyberith, Kat Walk hopes to be the newest VR treadmill option on the block. The system differentiates itself with an open design that suspends users from above instead of using a support ring around the...

FlyInside FSX, the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006), has today released the first taste of the project's $30,000 stretch goal—coming to us in the form of a free alpha preview for Prepar3D. Prepar3D, an academic and professional-level flight...

Pixel Ripped 1989, a time-bending VR project that aims to bring back the video games of old, have today announced a Kickstarter campaign in hopes that the team's "game within a game" will strike a chord with classic game enthusiasts. Lead...

VR: The Movie is an in-depth documentary film that follows virtual reality from its mid-1900s past to the VR technology of today. The documentary features interviews with designers, scientists, engineers and several industry professionals to help illuminate virtual reality's legacy. VR: The Movie was conceived by...