Lenovo and Disney have partnered to bring a new Star Wars-themed app to life using a never before seen AR headset developed by Lenovo. Revealed at the 2017 D23 Expo, the AR experience called Star Wars: Jedi Challenges was "designed to give Star...

Apple's ARKit has been out for developers since it was announced last month. Because of the mind-boggling number of iPhones and iPads capable of running ARKit, the new tool is already spreading its augmented reality wings across the Internet thanks to a diverse...

Oculus slashed the original price tag in half to $400 on the Rift +Touch bundle last week, but the company's 'Summer of Rift' sale only lasts for six weeks, leaving the question on the table as to exactly how much the VR...

First demonstrated to theme park executives at the Asian Attractions Expo in Singapore last month, Holovis’ R3ex (Rideable Realtime Robot Experiences) project combines virtual reality with four/six-axis robot arm amusement rides. The technology claims to offer the rider genuine...

Nexus Interactive Arts, an immersive media division of VFX production studio Nexus Studios, have used Apple’s ARKit working on an iPhone 7 in an experiment that creates basic inside-out positional tracking and pass-through AR for a Google Cardboard headset. Announced last month at...

VR Presence researcher Mel Slater is fascinated by what makes the medium of virtual reality unique and different from other communications mediums. He says that VR activates our sensorimotor contingencies in a way that fools our brain that we're...

The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it's true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to...

nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies, have completed an additional £2 million investment with Mercia Technologies, and £700,000 from private investors to create more VR games. In addition, nDreams has signed a deal to bring exclusive new...

According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook is working on a wireless, standalone VR headset said to target the $200 price range. Citing "people familiar with its development," the report reveals the Oculus-branded headset, code named 'Pacific', will ship sometime next year. The headset...

Bandai Namco announced last month that the company would be opening its first VR ZONE arcade in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Promising branded VR content playing on HTC Vive, the now publicly open arcade features some big names like Nintendo's Mario Kart Arcade GP VR,...

The latest release of Unity, version 2017.1 now officially supports NVIDIA's VRWorks rendering tech. VRWorks contains a number of rendering features unique to the company's GPUs which are designed to improve performance in VR applications. Update (7/13/17):  After several months...

Facebook today announced their Oculus Rift app Spaces is getting an extra feature, bringing it closer in functionality to the rest of Facebook's near ubiquitous platform—of course with a few extra 'VR perks'. Starting today, Facebook is letting Rift owners...

inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Bard's Tale franchise including VR dungeon crawler The Mage's Tale (2017), today announced they've raised a combined investment of $4.5M intended for equity in the company and as funds to develop an unannounced open world survival RPG VR game. Investment...

There's some weird and wild things showcasing at Bandai Namco's VR Arcade VR Zone in Shinjuku, Tokyo. To get a better look, Japan-based YouTube channel VJump goes hands-on with Dragon Ball Z VR, giving us a peek into the 40,000 square feet, 2-floor VR arcade and showing just...

GoPro's first batch of Fusion 360 cameras is now headed to some big brands, agencies and content creators as part of a pilot program to help source initial content partners. GoPro started taking applications in April. Picking from a pool of more...