Last May, Facebook and RED Digital Cinema announced they were working on a volumetric video camera based on Facebook’s Surround360 technology. At Oculus Connect 5 today, the company's annual developer conference, Facebook and RED revealed a first-look at the...

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the physics-based combat sandbox for Quest, has essentially been the little brother to the PC VR game ever since it released in 2021. With the addition of the game's long-awaited 'Crystal Hunt' campaign on Quest next...

I'm joined again by Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang & writer Scott Hayden to do a wrap-up of Wednesday's GDC news including all of Sony's PlayStation VR Announcements, the Star Wars Trials on Tatooine experience by ILMxLAB, and...

Meta launched a new developer competition through its Horizon Start program, which could net eligible XR dev teams a good slice of its $1.5 million prize pool. The News Meta's latest dev competition is seeking to spark "innovative, immersive experiences for...

Lenovo today unveiled the first standalone VR headset in Google's Daydream mobile VR ecosystem, the Mirage Solo. Revealed today at CES, the headset integrates Google's WorldSense six degrees of freedom (6DoF) positional tracking alongside the headset's 3DoF controller. First teased back at...

Though consumer virtual reality R&D has been healthily reignited, the challenge of marketing these new devices begins to take rise. Samsung is first to take a stab at selling VR to everyday consumers, and that means somehow explaining what...

VRChat, the popular social VR platform, announced that flatscreen ports for both Android and iOS are currently in development. The company says in a developer blog that while there's still no release date on the books, the Android version has already...

During the VR Games Showcase today, Fast Travel Games unveiled its next VR game: Action Hero, promising to be a truly "blockbuster VR FPS." Here's how the studio describes its: Punch dinosaurs in the face, battle ninjas with shotguns and chase bad...

On April 12th, Oculus Medium received the 1.1 ‘Large’ update, which added several highly-requested features, including the ability to import reference images. Medium is Oculus’ flagship creative tool for the Touch motion controllers, recognised for its intuitive sculpting and...

The future of VR storytelling will be immersive and interactive. Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus, and she's been inspired by how interactive narratives have allowed her to feel like a participant who is more...

With the one year anniversary of Oculus Quest this week, Facebook is sharing a handful of interesting stats, including the fact that "more than 10" Quest games and apps have earned $2 million in revenue in their first year...

Facebook announced this week the open-sourcing of Detectron, the company's platform for computer vision object detection algorithm based on a deep learning framework. The company says that its motive for opening up the project is to accelerate computer vision...

I’ve been home for a week, but I am still riding the high from the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference & Expo.  There are so many wonderful experiences to talk about, so I invited a fellow attendee, Forest Gibson,...

Apple today announced at WWDC that Vision Pro is getting spatialized Widgets, coming along when visionOS 26 drops later this year. On basically all of Apple's devices, Widgets are designed to offer up personalized and useful info at a glance. Now...

The existence of a virtual reality headset from Sony for their PS4 console has passed well beyond idle speculation over the past 12 months. We bring you new information from a PS4 developer. Note: This article contains speculation based on...