At this week's Google IO 2014, the company's annual developer conference, the search giant is handing out 'Cardboard', a low-cost VR headset adapter for smartphones. The company is also making freely available an open 'VR Toolkit' and SDK to...

Those of us wrapped up in the dizzying (sometimes literally) world of virtual reality have been so focussed on following the progress of how the hard, pure technical problems are being solved by those smart eggs at Oculus VR, that we...

It's been an interesting and somewhat sordid 24 hours since we broke the news a company supposedly called 'Horizon VR' who claimed that not only that they had a brand new VR Headset that comprised 2 x 4k /...

A friend recently sent me a video of a gal whispering into her microphone and tapping her nails on a coffee mug, with the message, "You have to talk to her about VR!" I invited Ally onto the Rev...

The VR headset race has seen many entrants in the last two years other than Oculus's Rift. But none has managed to convincingly best the Rift's raw technical specifications quite so dazzlingly as the InfinitEye 210 Degree, dual 720p...

At E3 2014 I had the chance to try out the $150 Kor-FX gaming vest which has far exceeded its Kickstarter goal with 31 days left in the crowdfunding campaign. The vest seeks to add immersion to gameplay by rumbling...

Bridging the gaps that still remain in virtual reality once the visual and audio elements are at least 'good enough', VR enthusiasts will surely turn their attention to elements that are missing from their experience whilst trying to reach...

The wait for the Oculus Rift DK2 is almost over. Oculus VR have stated that they're confident they can ship 20-30k DK2 units in the month of July, which means that there's likely to be a lot of very...

The Kinect was a great example of cutting edge technology coming from R&D into entertainment. First released as a peripheral for the Xbox 360, it quickly became one of the most successful console peripheral ever launched and then promptly...

Frustratingly, Road to VR and the White Lotus Interactive team seem to keep missing each other. Such was the case at E3 this year too unfortunately. It's especially annoying because, as a backer of the project, I've been wanting to...

I'm a wimp! There, I said it. I never did make it all the way through the dark, dank and terrifying tunnels of Dreadhalls when it debuted as a finalist in last year's IndieCade VR Jam event. It was a finalist...

Today Sixense is revealing the reason for the delay of their STEM motion input controller—the company revamped their board design to include an IMU sensor which augments the motion tracking capabilities of the controller. The IMU is used for...

One of the things we're written about many times on the site is the possibilities for virtual reality inside the entertainment sphere but outside the scope of traditional games. Virtual Tourism, VR Cinema and Virtual Arcades are all tantalising prospects when...

I had some time on the last day of E3 2014 to hang out with Anton Mikhailov and Jeff Stafford, members of the Sony Project Morpheus team. They were wrapping up their final demos and wanted me to come...

The Oculus Rift is seemingly finding it's way into numerous fields of application beyond gaming. We reported recently that Marketing in particular seem to have seized the Rift's wow factor and unique presentation capability in their campaigns. Well, now...