Today during the Sundance Film Festival, Oculus has announced Story Studio University, and initiative by the company to "inspire and educate the next generation of VR filmmakers." While games are an obvious starting point for virtual reality, perhaps the next...

Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has published an experimental virtual reality project that takes the form of a ray marching fractal renderer that runs in the web browser. Known begrudgingly to this writer as 'the guy who didn't...

Penrose Studios have unveiled their second VR film Alumette at the Sundance Festival and Road to VR's Chris Madsen went hands-on with a virtual reality experience which he found evoked real empathy with the inhabitants of its beautiful, virtual world. While...

Scott Broock, one of Jaunt's earliest members, has left the company to join as YouTube's 'Global VR Evangelist'. Scott Broock, former Jaunt VP of Content, was one of the earliest members of the company, a virtual reality firm producing hardware,...

Starbreeze announced at VRLA's Winter Expo yesterday project 'Starcade' to bring their wide FOV, high resolution in-house developed VR headset to more consumers by way of public arcade style venues. Frank He caught up with their CTO Emmanuel Marquez to...

Starbreeze Studios, a videogame publisher which recently entered the VR arena with their StarVR headset, announced that they'll be opening a VR arcade venue in Los Angeles, CA called Project StarCade. The goal of the venue is to "make premium...

VR broadcasting company NextVR has partnered with FOX Sports to bring tonight's Premier Boxing Champions live in virtual reality to the Gear VR headset. You can watch it for free starting at 8PM ET tonight (Saturday, January 23rd). NextVR has been...

The latest slew of virtual reality job postings from Google suggests the company is working on dedicated consumer VR hardware that will be manufactured at large scale. For some time now it's been clear that Google is excited about virtual...

Oculus says that getting the Rift into "broad retail around the world" is going to be critical to the success of the Rift headset and VR in general. The company plans to have a retail presence starting in April. A...

According to a recent report by Digi-Capital, investors have injected some pretty big bucks into companies focusing on augmented and virtual reality lately. A total of $686 million in 2015 alone. The most interesting bit: they aren't counting Magic Leap. Digi-Capital,...

Eric Romo is the founder and CEO of AltspaceVR, a company aiming to make virtual reality social. He shares his story of how he got interested in the potential of social VR long before the 2012 Oculus Kickstarter.  LISTEN TO...

Franbo VR, an indie studio based out of Bristol, UK, has created some iconic interiors inspired by The Shining (1980) in a short VR experience called The Caretaker. Distilling some of the film's atmospheric insanity, the experience lets you walk the halls of the isolated Overlook Hotel. In...

Crytek recently announced a new initiative that they're calling VR First. The goal is form so-called 'VR First Labs' within academic institutions to act as ready-made centers for a wave of future VR developers. Crytek is the company behind CryEngine, a...

Bespectacled Gear VR owners know the drill: smash into the headset for as long as your temples and poor nose can stand, and hope that you're not crushing or scratching anything in the process. VR Lens Lab, a German-based crowdfunding project,...

I sit down with Valve Writer, Game Developer and seemingly omnipotent VR Evangelist Chet Faliszek to discuss the new Vive Pre, Valve's focus on a safe VR experience, expectations for the upcoming VR content showcase and his startlingly sneaky cat. On...