Within hours of Google's announcement of Google Cardboard, a radically simple VR smartphone adapter, DODOcase started taking offers for a pre-made version of the kit. DODOcase says they've sold 15,000 of the kits so far and expect to reach...

Taiwan-based electronics firm Acer recently announced an investment into game studio Starbreeze equating to the sum of $9M USD, an amount intended to further the manufacture and commercialization of Starbreeze's high-FOV, high resolution StarVR headset. The investment, which comes on the heels of the news...

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...

During a recent virtual reality hackathon at OCVR, I was able to try out a crazy contraption called the Virtusphere—essentially a giant acrylic human hamster ball that lets the user feel like they are walking through a virtual world....

There isn't a studio that can claim to be 'The Pixar of VR' just yet, but many heavy hitters in traditional media and tech are taking notice of the growth potential of animated films in VR, and specifically in Baobab Studios,...

ImmerSight is a positional tracking system, that can be used with any head mounted display, being produced by a company in Germany. Notably, this could be a solution for the Oculus Rift developer kit which currently lacks positional tracking....

This guest article is written by Jordi Batallé, who has been hard at work over the last few months developing a DIY positional tracking solution for head mounted displays (HMDs / VR headsets). Batallé is a virtual reality enthusiast who holds...

Stationary biking is boring almost anyway you slice it. And while some people can zone out to music or lock their attention to a TV screen, others crave something a little more interactive. This is where Widerun sees their made-for-VR cycling system, a...

Virtual reality isn't getting second class treatment at this year's Playstation Experience in San Francisco, as a number of beloved titles are now getting VR iterations. Just announced was Rez Infinite, the PlayStation remake in the popular rhythm-based Rez series. If you can't...

I just stumbled across this excellent video showing a brief history of virtual reality. The video is from the YouTube channel Silicon Classics. It focuses mainly on the Forte VFX1 head mounted display but also gives a great overview of...

V is a universal dashboard for virtual reality experiences which lets you load websites and webapps like Slack, Spotify, and Soundcloud inside of your favorite VR games. Today the software launches as a free open beta for the Rift. A universal...

With the recent acquisition of virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR by Facebook last week, Microsoft has accelerated the release of their VR offering, targeting the lucrative enterprise market. Hardware and Reaction Dubbed Microsoft Office© Oculu 2014 Enterprise Edition™, the Oculu...

The venerable iFixit has done it again: taken a brand new, perfectly good VR headset and ripped it apart for our pleasure. OSVR's recently launched HDK 2 headset is starting to land in the hands of eager users. iFixit has promptly...

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...

This afternoon, Sony is hosting press during GDC 2015 to talk Morpheus, the company's PS4 VR headset that was revealed one year ago at this very show. At 3pm PST we'll have liveblog coverage of the event. There aren't many...