NASA has partnered with FUSION, a multi-platform media company owned by Disney-ABC Television Group and Univision, to produce a virtual reality experience that aims to simulate life as one of the first astronauts to arrive on Mars. As part of ongoing efforts to build...

The Steam Autumn Sale is upon us and our poor wallets, so we've weeded out all the Oculus Rift compatible games on sale right now. Oculus Thrift For those on a budget (generally that means most of us), the Steam Sale...

More game engines with Oculus Rift support means more choices for developers! Recently, TouchDesigner and CopperCube have updated their engines to work with the Oculus Rift. Derivative TouchDesigner Derivative's TouchDesigner software is a visual programming language for artists. It's been used...

Oculus released a bevy of teaser photos in today's rush to pre-order the new Rift, the company's first consumer grade tethered VR headset. Among them was the DK1-style carrying case containing all the goodies set to come along with it....

FOVE, the Japan based VR headset creator, is using their eye-tracking technology in a new project: 'Eye Play the Piano', a collaborative partnership with the University of Tsukuba's Special Needs Education School which aims to give physically-disabled students the...

A new VR version of the classic 2011 mobile game, Temple Run, has just been released and is now available on Samsung Gear VR. Like all of the titles that currently populate the Oculus Store, the game is free...

We were lucky enough to get an early glimpse of Darknet last week. Now, developer Ed McNeil has made the demo available to Oculus Rift users everywhere to try. McNeil is calling this a "flavor demo." It's designed to give...

Littlstar, a new 360 degree video-sharing network, wants to put their YouTube-like platform in the hands of anyone with a cardboard (or plastic) VR headset. Considering the recent appearance of some astonishingly well-funded competition, we reached out to the...

A collection of virtual reality experiences were developed during a 24 hour coding marathon hosted by Comcast NBCUniversal in Hollywood earlier this month. We dropped in quickly after just getting back from the Samsung Developer Conference 2014 to investigate what...

Sixense, creators of the tech behind the Razer Hydra, and the upcoming STEM motion controller, gave us a demo showing how STEM's new distortion correction method can make a huge difference in environments with magnetic distortion. In the early days...

While Oculus had once supported the Rift on both Mac OSX and Linux with early builds of their SDK, it was back in early 2015 that they indefinitely "paused" support for those platforms. Now Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says...

Meta made sizeable waves in the AR space in early 2016 with the announcement, demonstration, and pre-order launch of their Meta 2 development kit. The company has published an unboxing video of the system, but with just over two...

Oculus Touch isn't here for consumers just yet, as the company just narrowed their launch window down to Q4 of this year. But if you're a developer, you might just get your hands on a Touch dev kit in the very...

Although Valve has buddied up with HTC to create the Vive as SteamVR's flagship headset, the company has made it clear that they want SteamVR to be headset agnostic. Now Steam is identifying Rift users and prompting them to install...

The 1st official virtual reality meetup in Long Beach was hosted at California State University Long Beach on November 4th, 2014 which brought together people from all over the West Coast. LBVR’s foundation is one built on the cross-section...