There's no doubt that what Oculus and Samsung managed to achieve with the mobile Gear VR headset is impressive, but one aspect, positional tracking, lags far behind desktop VR headsets. Oculus CTO John Carmack has affirmed his team's focus...

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...

Samsung has today announced an 'Unpacked' event in a teaser that puts both Gear VR and "the Next Galaxy" phone in the spotlight. The event will take place on February 21st in Barcelona, one day ahead of this year's Mobile...

Gear VR users are still waiting for Oculus to officially open video capture for the masses, but according to a recent update in the documentation section for the Mobile SDK, app developers will now be able to capture "live, full resolution,...

We caught up with the developers of Rink, a new wireless motion controller that uses a combination of magnetic field enabled positional tracking and infra-red finger tracking. Here's a closer look at the new motion controllers which we wrote about...

ionVR is a smartphone based VR headset that augments the standard Google cardboard experience with custom optics and electronics to drastically reduce latency. We go hands on at CES to see if it actually works. VR smartphone adapters in my...

Celebrating today's release of the Star Wars: Jakku Spy virtual reality experience, Verizon is handing out limited edition Cardboard viewers, and we must admit, they're pretty stellar. In partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm, Verizon has a batch of four limited...

Samsung's Gear VR launched officially in it's first consumer ready form last week, and as the first commercial VR headset launching in decades, how do you sell a technology famously difficult to demonstrate other than in person? Samsung's new...

Samsung today became the first company to market with a consumer oriented virtual reality headset in decades as its Samsung Galaxy mobile phone powered Gear VR launched in the US today. It's unlikely that many people, even post Oculus Rift Kickstarter,...

For 'causal' virtual reality to take off—the kind that you and I can create and share as easily as we do with photos today—it needs to be accessible. Google Cardboard has made important strides in introducing people to...

OTOY, one of the leading pioneers of digital light field rendering, has tweeted an intriguing snippet claiming they've managed to leverage Valve's Lighthouse tracking to add positional tracking to Samsung's mobile phone powered Gear VR headset. OTOY have been making...

The AuraVisor is an untethered 'all in one' VR headset which strive to address issues with both mobile and desktop VR. The Kickstarter has just passed its £100,000 goal, and we went hands-on with an early prototype to see...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1714346163/auravisor-virtual-reality-head-mounted-computer# A UK firm is making a bid for the untethered virtual reality headset space with a new headset called AuraVisor, a self-contained immersive device which packs processing power and display into one headset. The device hit Kickstarter on Monday and...

WebVR is not a new thing — people have been talking about using WebGL to render interactive 3D graphics in the browser for over half a decade, in various different implementations. What is new, however, is the availability of open source libraries...

Microsoft has sent some confusing signals about their commitment to both their Windows Phone platform and mobile virtual reality by promoting a Russian VR hackathon using an image of a 'Cardboard' like mobile virtual reality viewer called the 'Microsoft...