Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and in commemoration a group of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers have set out to capture the wreckage that was once the city of Pripyat and its surrounding countryside. The 360 film aims...

Looking to get your VR project off the ground? HTC might be able to help. The company has just announced a $100 million fund attached to the 'Vive X' accelerator program. Announced at an HTC conference today in Beijing, Vive X...

BigScreen is a social VR app currently in beta for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that lets you livestream your monitor to friends in an online environment, essentially letting you throw a virtual LAN party or movie night with your best...

Nokia Technologies today announced that it will be providing The Walt Disney Studios with OZO, the company's 360 degree camera. Disney will use the camera to create 'special VR content' for upcoming films. Disney recently used OZO to create two 360 videos for The...

Amidst a mounting trade deal between the U.S. and the EU, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel today visited the Hannover Messe, an annual trade fair for industrial technology, where they donned a VR headset using a depth...

Small form factor PC specialist Zotac are about to enter the virtual reality hardware race with a nifty solution to your tethered, cable-lugging room-scale VR woes; A portable PC that can be strapped to your back. Consumer virtual reality is...

It's 1995. The world looks a little different after the failed assassination of JFK. In a bid to open-source all US and Soviet space patents, the Space Race booms into a new era of long-haul interplanetary travel—spearheaded of course by a...

Google have been floating at the periphery of serious commitment to virtual reality since the launch of their ultra low-cost Android Cardboard VR platform in 2014. But this year's Google I/O session schedule indicates it's about to throw some...

A new objective-based game mode was today announced for EVE: Valkyrie at Fanfest 2016, CCP's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Called 'Carrier Assault', it promises to offers what lead designer Andrew Willans calls an "influence from a certain '70s sci-fi classic moment."...

Project Arena, a prototype game now in development from CCP, was teased today by CCP Games at Fanfest 2016, the company's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. We first saw a rudimentary prototype of Project Arena at Fanfest 2015. It was found among a...

What if you could take the magical sense of creativity evoked by Tilt Brush and share that with someone else, online, simultaneously, using nothing but your hands for input? That's the ethos behind developer Mike Harris' latest project, StrangersVR. If...

Once upon a time if you were a filmmaker who wanted an aerial shot, you paid a hefty fee to charter a helicopter and brought a camera along for the ride. Today, filmmakers can use virtual reality to pre-plan...

Technolust, like many others in the cyberpunk genre, stands on the shoulders of giants. Taking cues from neo-noir staples like Blade Runner (1982) and William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), the adventure game makes good on its promise to deliver the lovably gritty 'high-tech, low-life' atmosphere that cyberpunk fans are after,...

Let’s face it, if there is one VR category that has the most potential, the most controversy, and admittedly the most goofiness, it's social VR. Guest article by Ben Smith Ben is an active investor in VR and digital media, and...

The Unspoken from Insomniac Games wants to use the immediacy of motion controls to give you magical powers and then watch you fight to the death using them. At a special event, Frank He got a chance to go...