Nokia has taken a firm stride in VR territory with the introduction of Ozo, a VR camera designed for professional content makers, but ultimately it's going to be consumers on the other end of the screen that experience the...

Microsoft is reaching out to US-based universities and research institutions with a new program that will award $100,000 and two HoloLens development kits to 5 carefully chosen projects. In a bid to work closer with academic institutions and push the conceptual boundaries of the yet unreleased...

AltspaceVR, the virtual reality communication platform, has announced it's to receive an additional $10M of funds to help accelerate the company's product development. AltspaceVR is a social communications platform which allows networked VR participants to meet, share, present and talk in virtual...

Nokia today announced a new VR camera that they're calling 'OZO'. The camera, built specifically for the professional market, shoots 3D 360 degree video and captures surround sound audio simultaneously. Nokia is touting Ozo's ability to instantly preview the...

Today Oculus Story Studio is premiering their second made-for-VR short film called Henry, a tale about a not-so-cuddly porcupine who, in a cruel twist of fate, wants nothing more than the embrace of a friend. With the premiere of the...

Microsoft researchers have published a paper detailing a technique to record live action 'holographic' video suitable for the company's HoloLens augmented reality headset. The high quality capture can be viewed from any angle and streamed over the web. While VR video...

The HTC Vive came to London recently, courtesy of Valve and PlayHubs, to form the centrepiece of a dedicated VR Jam. Mike Algar charts his room-scale developer adventures for us in this guest post from inside the event. Mike Alger is...

Revealing one of the most polished VR demos we've seen to date, CryEngine and Crysis developer Crytek were in fighting form at E3 in Los Angeles this year. We speak to Director of Production David Bowman who was bullish about...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1251129310/vr-camp-at-burning-man?ref=nav_search Burning Man, a week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert that showcases the weird and wonderful, will be getting a VR Camp—an enclave of VR enthusiasts that should find themselves at home among the unbound imagination and psychedelia that often shows up...

After recently adding support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, the company now says that 360 + stereoscopic 3D video support is on the way. The streaming service currently supports 360 or 3D videos, but not both together. Google's tentative toe...

Joining longstanding names Virtuix and Cyberith, Kat Walk hopes to be the newest VR treadmill option on the block. The system differentiates itself with an open design that suspends users from above instead of using a support ring around the...

Piloting vehicles, taking down infamous foes, and wielding lightsabers in one of sci-fi's most iconic franchises? The Star Wars universe offers an array of memorable and heroic experiences that we only wish we could live ourselves. VR technology could make...

Leap Motion has announced that they'll be hosting their second 3D Jam this year, a developer competition to spur the creation of experiences making use of the company's motion input controller. Once again the company has laid out a $50,000...

Hive Division, an Italy based VFX studio, have teamed up with VR multimedia and marketing solutions provider InVRsion to create a very curious looking custom VR camera rig. With Google Jump, a 16-GoPro rig made in partnership with GoPro, and Jaunt's...

Epic Games and Wellcome Trust revealed at Develop:Brighton that the winner of the Big Data VR Challenge—claiming a grand prize of $20,000—is LumaPie. LumaPie, a London based team made up of the creative studio Masters of Pie and 3D software consultancy firm Lumacode, was one of the six teams...