Our SVVR Conference and Expo 2014 coverage continues with a LiveStream of "User Input and Locomotion in VR", a panel discussion which aims to explore what challenges, solutions and challenges there might be to allow users of virtual reality...

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...

Epic Games is offering developers a "no strings attached" piece of their recently established development fund, a financial grant pool that tops out at $5,000,000 worth of cash. The funds are earmarked for projects with working prototypes, that are...

Reactive Grip is an interesting technology by Tactical Haptics which lets you feel feelback from games in the palm of your hands. The company plans to take their prototype to Kickstarter to raise money for production versions of their...

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...

West coasters are a lucky bunch, the growing popularity of virtual reality has brought forth plenty of great community gatherings to choose from—SVVR, VRLA, SFVR, and OCVR—just to name a few. Now, the East Coast is getting into the...

Got a Samsung Gear VR? Hungry for new games and experiences? We're rounding up the week's Oculus Store releases for fans of the mobile VR platform. This week: test your archery mettle with Archer E Bowman, repair cities in Cityscape...

Think Tank Team, the alias given to Samsung's 'Research America' group have launched a website celebrating the research, design and engineering that went into Project Beyond, Samsung's newly announced 3D 360 VR Camera tech. Form, Function Samsung's San Jose based research...

Yesterday, LG Display announced the world's thinnest 5.2-inch full HD display. As more panel makers announce full HD displays of this size, it means more choices and lower costs for the forthcoming Oculus Rift consumer version. Back at E3 2013,...

Convrge is an in-development Social VR platform that's free and open to all. Events planned over the seven days include an EDM dance party, indie movie night, St. Patrick's Day celebration, and the weekly Campfire Meetup. You are invited to...

In an event at SIGGRAPH this evening, AMD's Radeon Technology Group introduced a new line of 'Radeon Pro' WX-series GPUs. AMD has aimed the WX 7100 specifically at virtual reality content creation. Radeon Pro WX 7100 Release Date, Specs, and Price Built...

Yesterday Oculus announced that they're acquiring Nimble VR, which launched a Kickstarter in October to fund creation of their motion input camera designed for VR headsets. Along with Nimble VR, 13th Lab and Chris Bregler also join the Oculus...

On the hunt for 'the Pixar of VR' a cast of big names have joined for a $6 million series A investment in virtual reality animation studio Baobab. Baobab Studios today announced a series A funding round led by Comcast Ventures,...

Adding a heaping load of fuel to the rumors that Samsung and Oculus VR are working closely together, it turns out that every Oculus Rift DK2 contains a significant part of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. Living within the...

Sander Sneek, developer of Soundscape VR and semi-finalist in the IndieCade Leap Motion 3D Jam, has recently issued an update to his beat-mixing jam machine that adds a few more bells and whistles, fleshing out the demo to an experience that...