The Virtual Reality Company, lead by two-time Academy Award-winning director Robert Stromberg and entertainment industry executive Guy Primus, have announced $23M in venture funding to build original virtual reality content and position the firm as "premiere VR storyteller and...

In this, the latest in the semi-regular feature, Kevin Williams explores the wider aspect of the re-emergence of virtual reality development. In this article, he explores a resilient segment of the VR industry, Visuals and Simulations. Kevin Williams has an extensive...

Epic's series of short films exploring  the rise and maturation of the virtual reality industry reaches part 3. In this installment, the directors look to explore what virtual reality means to game developers in delivering compelling narrative experiences that...

I was quoted recently as saying "Oculus are like some crazy, out of control talent hoover!", in reference of course to their relentless drive to suck up the best and brightest in fields related (and in some cases, seemingly...

Google has sent out invites to a developer-focused event for Google Glass, the company's upcoming wearable head mounted display. They're calling it 'Glass Foundry' and it will be a two day 'hackathon' held in two locations: San Francisco and New York...

This weekend the Shanghai and Brisbane VR meet up groups have teamed up to bring the world a free, online virtual reality mini-expo featuring presentations about VR. All of it's hosted in the online social application VR Chat, and you're...

Crytek, the creators of Crysis (2007) and in-house game engine CryEngine, have announced a VR game called Robinson: The Journey and early impressions are good. The game's website is still sparse on info at the moment, with only a brief description to tide...

Star Citizen, a hugely ambitious space epic, one of the first crowdfunding success stories to also pledge virtual reality support, has just launched its Alpha 2.0 release. Not only that, their total funding pot has now reached an astonishing...

Viorama, a Berlin-based VR startup, today announced the closed beta launch of Splash, a VR video sharing platform that aims to make capturing and publishing 360 videos easy. Presented today during VR Launchpad, a virtual reality-focused startup showcase sponsored by SVVR and Road...

On the path to eventually releasing the STEM VR motion controller, Sixense has released the Sixense Core API and SixenseVR SDK with support for the still-kicking Razer Hydra. Included in the release is 5 STEM demos which are playable with...

Looking for a 5 minute 'interview' montage about the Oculus Rift? You won't find it here. I sat down with Palmer Luckey (Founder) and Nate Mitchell (VP of Product) at GDC 2013 for an 18 minute chat about the...

Star Citizen is an ambitious new game which will feature Oculus Rift support. But it's also much more than that -- this is an opportunity to help realize a new generation of space combat simulator, a genre which once...

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...

Another SVVR Con panel discussion, this time exploring various non-game applications for consumer VR in areas such as entertainment, storytelling, cinema, tourism, health & wellness, fitness, CAD, 3D modeling, scanning and printing, education. Oliver Kreylos, VR Researcher, UC Davis Eric Greenbaum,...

Titans of Space is one of the classic Oculus Rift DK1 experiences. It takes users on a tour through the solar system, with a particularly amazing star size comparison at the end which is unlike anything you've ever seen...