Positional audio for VR experiences—where noises sound as if they are coming from the correct direction—has long been understood as an important part of making VR immersive. But knowing which direction sounds are coming from is only one part...

Having been involved with Oculus from early on, Epic Games, the company behind the popular Unreal Engine, continues to expand its scope and interest in the burgeoning VR industry. Today the company has revealed the first episode in what...

I wrote a few months back that augmented reality needed to prove itself. While I still think this is the case, I'm happy to report that top minds are working on just that. Some genius folks from MIT have...

Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's Head of Content, Jason Rubin, announced that Oculus Studios will be publishing a Rift exclusive title made by Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by ex-Call of Duty, and the creators of Titanfall. On stage...

The Netherlands-based Craft Game Studio is bringing Crooked Waters, a multiplayer pirate ship game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, to Steam Early access this week. Pitting would-be pirates in a four vs. four battle on the high seas, the...

Microsoft's Windows 10 'Fall Creators Update' is available for download today, making the operating system compatible with its line of Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets, which coincidentally are arriving on doorsteps and store shelves starting today too. Windows 10 Fall...

Go Touch VR, which is developing a simple haptic device that's surprisingly effective, has raised €837,000 (approx. $1 million) in venture capital for ongoing development. The company has offered a look at the latest version of the VRTouch DK1 dev...

Skyfront VR, the upcoming multiplayer arena first-person shooter from Levity Play, is coming to Steam Early Access on November 10th, including support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Setting it apart from more 'traditional' VR shooters, Skyfront VR boasts a unique locomotion style that...

The American Dream is set to launch on March 14th, and the moment, most unfortunately, couldn't be more timely. The game's gun-fueled gameplay takes US gun culture to the extreme, examining a world where babies are born packing heat...

vTime, the social VR platform, today announced the closure of a $7.6 million (£5.4 million) Series A funding round led by Deepbridge Capital with included investment from Liverpool, UK-based institutional loan and equity provider MSIF. vTime founder and CEO Martin Kenwright says...

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...

Frank He gets his hands on Insomniac's third virtual reality title for the Oculus Rift, and finds an unusual mix of adventuring and vibrant VR brawling. Feral Rites by Insomniac is said to be an adventure-brawler VR game, taking place on...

Boneworks (2019), the VR shooter-adventure from Stress Level Zero, is now live on the Oculus Store for Rift, although arguably more fascinating is the studio's intention to bring its physics-based system built for Boneworks to the modest Oculus Quest, which...

In an aggressive move that'll help lower the bar of entry still further for VR, Oculus have announced sizeable permanent price drops for both the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controllers, both now cut by $100 each. There are...

It's come to light that Lemnis Technologies, a startup creating varifocal optics for use in VR headsets, has reportedly been absorbed by Facebook in an 'acqui-hiring' move. Lemnis co-founder and CEO Pierre-Yves Laffont released a blog post in mid-August stating...