For a while now we've been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Now Qualcomm, a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone 'reference' platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that...

Leap Motion creates a gesture camera for hand tracking input. The company has been progressively pivoting their technology toward virtual reality, and now appear to be going all-in on the emerging industry with a tease of a next-generation sensor, codenamed...

In a post to the company's official blog, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he'll be stepping down from the company's top position to head the new PC VR group. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role. Brendan...

Social VR platform TheWaveVR is now in open beta and delivering weekly DJ sets in its wild and weird environment filled with psychedelic interactive art. Distributing free of charge on Steam Early Access for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the platform lets you watch, host,...

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...

Ricoh, the Japanese imaging and electronics company, today announced a new model of the Theta, the company's pocketable 360 camera. It's called Theta SC. The new Theta SC is a lighter, more colorful version of the Theta that has almost everything...

Apple is investing in additional VR savvy, with more job postings trickling out of the multinational tech giant's own internal job site. Although Apple hasn't left us with many clues as to what they might be working on at their Santa...

Let's be honest here. Back when the Oculus Rift DK1 was barely in enthusiast's hands, the majority of content available for this new breed of VR headset wasn't pretty. Such was the power of this new platform and the new-ness...

PlayStation VR is almost here, with its October 13th launch creeping ever closer. Although we've already had our paws all over the headset in our comprehensive review—a deep dive into the platform that any prospective buyer should read before...

In a Q&A session at Austin's SXSW event, an Oculus panel including VP of Product Nate Mitchell and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey confirmed that their latest feature prototype, 'Crescent Bay' does indeed comprise two display panels. SXSW is underway and...

Listings on Amazon have revealed prices for some PlayStation VR games, giving an idea of what Sony plans to charge for the first wave of virtual reality titles to hit the console platform. PlayStation VR launches in October and we've...

Returning to an earlier era of gaming, Chronos (2016) was an unforgiving third-person action adventure game that launched alongside the Rift. Inspired by FTL (2012) developer Gunfire Games is now applying their lauded old-school game design principles to new-school game tech, with...

South Park's episode last week, Grounded Vindaloop, has zeroed in on the beloved Oculus Rift, along with some longstanding fears surrounding virtual reality. The episode, which dives into a meta virtual reality, also pokes fun at outsourced customer service. If...

Despite not yet officially confirming a release date or price for Gear VR, Samsung's first mobile VR headset, demo units are already popping up at electronics retailer Best Buy in the United States.   Reddit user Hackertripz appears to have been...

If you've been following virtual reality news and opinion recently, you'll have noticed a definite switch of focus for those seeking VR nirvana. Whilst there are myriad hard problems surrounding convincing your mind it occupies a virtual space,...