Project Tango is Google's computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by...

The latest public data point on the number of Google Cardboard viewers shipped shows tremendous growth for this inexpensive entry point into virtual reality. A week after Google launched Cardboard as an experiment at I/O 2014, the company told us they'd...

During ATAP's presentation at this year's Google I/O, the in-house skunkworks debuted HELP, a new live-action 360 monster movie made in collaboration with The Mill and Star Trek 3 director Justin Lin. Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) has recently debuted HELP, a made-for-VR 360...

Google's I/O 2015 conference last week was packed with technology with potential uses with VR or AR. The most unusual among them, Project Soli, uses radar technology to detect minute movements and gestures and translate them for input. Google ATAP (Advanced...

Project Tango, Google's computer vision project able to track and map 3D spaces in realtime, may well find its way into future VR projects from the company, but they admit that current developer hardware may not be up to...

Google has just released the Cardboard Design Lab app for Android which puts users inside of a VR environment and teaches them fundamentals of VR design. The app demonstrates each of its lessons quickly in impressively effective ways. As Google further...

Amidst other VR related announcements from Google at today's I/O 2015 conference comes 'Jump', a VR camera that will follow Cardboard's path by offering up an open design. Google is also revealing the 'Assembler' which the company says can...

GoPro, the biggest name in rugged 'action' video cameras, is ready to jump into the VR space with a 16 camera array based on Google's new 'Jump' design for 360 degree VR video. Just three years ago, the idea that big...

Google today unveiled an educational initiative that leverages virtual reality and the company's low-cost Cardboard VR viewers to let teachers take their students on trips around the world as a classroom—they call it 'Expeditions'. Virtual reality and education are receiving...

At Google's I/O 2015 developer conference today, Clay Bavor took to the stage to update the world on the company's VR developments and has revealed a new and improved Cardboard VR viewer for smartphones. Google announced the Cardboard viewer and...

Today and tomorrow, Google hosts their annual I/O 2015 developer conference. We've dug through the schedule to find sessions of interest for the VR enthused. Watch the livestreamed sessions along with us right here. Above is Google's official I/O 2015...