One of the biggest moments at last month's Oculus Connect developer conference was the revelation that Minecraft, the stratospherically successful retro-styled social title, is coming to the Oculus Rift and Samsung's Gear VR. Now, Oculus CTO John Carmack has stated that...

In the real world, most of us have a smartphone in our pocket which means we're just a few taps away from a wealth of apps and services that enable us to do all manner of things, from communicating...

In an interesting move, Google has acquired Owlchemy Labs, makers of the multi-platform hits Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017). As far as VR game studios go, Owlchemy Labs is not only one of the most senior, but...

Today is the day that essentially the first consumer VR headset launched in the last decade becomes available. That headset is Samsung's Gear VR, created in collaboration with Oculus. Join us for an unboxing of this impressive device.See Also:...

This is Ragnarok VR, a virtual reality remake of an early and hugely popular Korean MMO, which takes the original's 3D assets and recreates the fantasy world in immersive 3D for a dose of immersive nostalgia, for those that have heard...

Thief in the Shadows, a VR experience based on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), has been nominated for a Visual Effects Society award for 'Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project'. Nominated for the 14th Annual VES Awards alongside triple-A titles Halo...

Facebook has officially launched React VR, an open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Oculus and Facebook announced React VR in October last year, an open-source JavaScript library (based on the popular React library) that's designed to...

During a keynote at Oculus Connect, Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe unveiled a headset they believe approaches the holy grail of virtual reality, presence. That is, it delivers an experience that your brain accepts as an alternate reality. This...

Knockout League (2017) is a single-player, arcade-style boxing game that promises to get your heart pumping as you duck, block, and punch your way to victory. Harking back to NES classic Punch-Out!! (1987), you learn pretty quickly that a storm of punches—the moral equivalent...

Valve today announced the Steam Audio SDK, a spatial audio plugin that the company says is made is designed to "enhance all interactive products, specifically VR applications." The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity,...

Envelop VR want to pull your every day computing environment into the virtual realm as the company launch their first closed beta for what they describe as "an immersive computing platform that brings the best out of your PC while...

Eyes have been on Palmer Luckey, the founder of Facebook-owned Oculus, following an article linking him to 'Nimble America', a polarizing political group that's been described as part of the fringe 'alt-right'. Following developer and community backlash, Luckey has issued...

Valve's The Lab is home to a number of fun mini-games, all of which feel like great blueprints for a full VR game. Developer Clear Ink Studios has stepped up to the plate to flesh out Valve's unique VR 'bullet-hell' mini-game,...

Today at Microsoft's Windows 10 press event, the company revealed an untethered augmented reality headset called the Microsoft HoloLens to accompany 'Windows Holographic', a component of Windows 10. Microsoft has just revealed the HoloLens and says it is fully untethered,...

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive install base is approaching the 100,000 mark. Having launched just about three months ago on April 5th, the HTC...