About Face, an ergonomic liner for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, was enthusiastically received when it launched on Kickstarter at the end of September. The campaign passed its funding goal of $12,000 in less than 24 hours. Now,...

In what seems like a total reversal of the usual paradigm, a VR researcher is showing the benefits of augmenting the virtual world with the real world. In 'traditional' augmented reality, we take a scene from real life and overlay...

AltspaceVR, a social VR app which allows users to connect and communicate in real time within virtual reality, is breaking free of its invite-only beta chains and officially opening its doors to the world for good. AltspaceVR has been in...

After a negative outcry about the $600 price of the Oculus Rift, founder Palmer Luckey admits that he "handled the messaging poorly" on setting the price expectation. The loudest voices may not be the majority however, so we set...

Steel Wool Studios has picked up a $5 million investment from HTC. The studio was formed in 2011 by Pixar and LucasArts alumni. Steel Wool Studios, which today announced a $5 million Series A investment from HTC, was founded in...

There's absolutely one constant with virtual reality, it's a medium that provides an experience that cannot be adequately described. You have you be shown to understand what good VR feels like. It's a sentiment developer of VR shooter Z0NE...

Google Jump, a 360 camera system and processing software platform announced at last year's Google I/O, is adding IMAX and Yi Technology to its roster of camera manufacturers. Clay Bavor, Google's VR team lead, took the stage during the I/O 2016...

Exciting info for the team of Project Holodeck, Razer is now an official sponsor. The company, which was founded in 1998 and manufacturers PC peripherals for hardcore gamers, will supply the Holodeck team with hardware pertinent to the project and...

Today's flood of content announcements following Samsung's Gear VR announcement is starting to look like a procession of VR's old guard classics. Darknet, Oculus Rift enabled hacking game originally conceived during an Oculus sponsored VR Jam competition (and finally...

Today marks the start of the SHVR Vive Jam, a weekend-long event giving Chinese developers a chance to prototype room-scale experiences on the HTC Vive. Hosted at the Transist office in Shanghai, the jam has drawn developers from across...

Google have announce the winners of their Project Tango innovators competition, designed to draw out original and impressive use cases for the computer vision, environment mapping technology. Project Tango is a computer vision project by Google designed to use depth...

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. When the city streets are filled with bad guys there is only...

Mojang Founder Markus 'Notch' Persson isn't happy about Oculus being bought out by Facebook. Apparently any hope for Minecraft for the Oculus Rift has just been lost. We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I...

Tested.com has a great 40 minute test session of the Oculus Rift developer kit on video. They unbox the unit and test the various virtual reality control schemes baked into Team Fortress 2. We have one of the first Oculus...

vTime, the newest social VR app in the Gear VR store, is different. It's seemingly the first social VR app to use the familiar 'friending' mechanic borrowed from traditional social networks, which essentially creates a digital handshake that allows...