Google may have shipped over 5 million Cardboard smartphone adapters, but it seems the company is significantly elevating their commitment to virtual reality with the announcement made today at Google I/O. Daydream, the newly revealed Android-powered VR platform, is...

At SVVR 2016, Google's Boris Smus took to the stage to present the latest advances in the WebVR platform that aims to bring virtual reality to the web. After allowing browsers to interact with VR headsets, another major challenge of...

Google have been floating at the periphery of serious commitment to virtual reality since the launch of their ultra low-cost Android Cardboard VR platform in 2014. But this year's Google I/O session schedule indicates it's about to throw some...

It's been clear for some time that Google's virtual reality ambitions extend beyond Cardboard and now we're seeing the first hints that the company will be integrating VR functionality into Android N, the next major release of the company's...

I'm joined on the podcast today by Road to VR Executive Editor Ben Lang and Moor Insights Analyst Anshel Sag for a 45-minute roundtable discussion about Google and what they're doing in VR. We cover everything including Google Cardboard,...

Late last month we spotted Google job postings that heavily pointed toward the company developing its own high-end mobile VR headset. Now a new report from Financial Times indicates the company plans to launch the headset this year. Google's Cardboard...

Jessica Brillhart is the principle VR filmmaker at Google working with the Cardboard team to field test the latest 360-degree Jump camera technology. She was working at Google's Creative Lab as a filmmaker when she was invited to start...

Scott Broock, one of Jaunt's earliest members, has left the company to join as YouTube's 'Global VR Evangelist'. Scott Broock, former Jaunt VP of Content, was one of the earliest members of the company, a virtual reality firm producing hardware,...

The latest slew of virtual reality job postings from Google suggests the company is working on dedicated consumer VR hardware that will be manufactured at large scale. For some time now it's been clear that Google is excited about virtual...

After continually dipping its corporate toe in the waters of immersive entertainment over the last couple of years, Google is finally committing to VR (and by turns AR) by appointing former VP of Product Clay Bavor to head up...

One of Google's most iconic, if perhaps elusive projects - Google Glass, has received an update. This is the new, foldable, Google Glass, designed for the workplace. Images unveiled by 9to5Google, after surfacing recently in FCC filings by Google, illustrate...

Google today released Cardboard Camera, a Google Cardboard-compatible app that let's take 3D panoramic photos with your smartphone and then view them in a VR smartphone adapter. Google is calling the 3D panoramas taken by Cardboard Camera "VR photos," which combines...

Google's interest in VR has been steadily growing, reaching a recent climax back in May during the company's annual 'I/O 2015' conference where they announced a slew of new VR initiatives including 'Jump' for VR video. Jump is Google's VR...

Google has been hiring full time virtual reality positions for some time, but for what appears to be the first time, the secretive Google is looking for full time VR talent in the form of a Computer Graphics...

Google naturally rolled out their initial virtual reality experiments on Android, but now that the company has gotten serious about Cardboard, we're seeing more of the VR initiative make its way to Apple's iOS. And now, Street View VR functionality has...