A new chip that Valve is recommending for use in future SteamVR headsets and accessories brings improved performance and significant power reduction compared to the first generation solution along with potential manufacturing savings. An essential component in the first generation HTC...

4A Games, the developers behind the popular sci-fi shooter franchise 'Metro', are not only allegedly working on an Oculus Rift title with Touch support, there's a chance we'll get to see it soon. In the mean time, this is...

Platforms continue to lead the charge in VR funding as InstaVR lands a $2 million series A investment led by The VR Fund. InstaVR aims to offer dead-simple VR app creation, allowing non-developers to easily piece together 360 degree photos...

Crytek's Robinson: The Journey is the studio's first PlayStation VR game. A new gameplay video reveals more about the title's gameplay and interactions. Robinson: The Journey is shaping up to be an ambitious VR adventure game, and a beautiful one at...

In an interesting twist to Insomniac's VR brawler Feral Rites' recent release, Oculus have slashed the price of the game to $29.99 from $49.99 stating the price was "too high". In an unusual move, Oculus have seemingly taken on board...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. On the subject of virtual and augmented reality Apple is still largely...

FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised...

Fledgling production studio The Rogue Initiative have revealed their first VR game project as Crowe: The Drowned Armory, an original sci-fi fantasy adventure which, from the newly release key art, looks promising. The Rogue Initiative describe themselves as a "full spectrum...

The Virtual Reality Foundation has announced the nominees for the 2016 Proto Awards, the third annual award show created to honor individuals and teams making strides in the field of virtual reality. Selecting the nominees was done through an intensive process wherein the...

It was on a San Jose sidewalk in 2015 that I first tried the SubPac and felt like I was immediately transported into a dance club standing in front of giant subwoofers with the soundwaves of bass rippling through...

Oculus has confirmed work on a VR boundary system which they're calling Guardian. The system will launch this week with the Oculus PC SDK 1.8 update. While it's relatively easy to keep users safe in seated-VR experience, once you have...

Vertebrae, a virtual reality advertising platform that promises to bring ad supported monetization to VR publishers, today announced a $10 million series A fundraising. Vertebrae's platform, now out of stealth, is currently in private beta for use by content publishers such as entertainment...

Feral Rites is a third-person VR adventure-brawler from Insomniac Games released for the Oculus Rift. Set on a mystical island, you play as a beefed-out warrior trying to avenge your father's death by kicking, punching and slashing everyone in your way. Feral...

The ‘VR One’ from MSI debuts at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The backpack provides tetherless VR gameplay powered by NVIDIA's 10-series GPUs with a hot-swappable battery for extended VR gaming without a tether. Each time we try mobile VR,...

Motion capture techniques are used throughout the VFX industry, but a new project from Mo-cap specialist and developer Jasper Brekelmans aims to bring live, augmented reality previews for motion capture performance, unlocking the ability to preview dances in realtime overlaid onto reality. Visual...