I've written before how virtual reality might well enable new and more powerful ways to re-live moments from the past or just gently wallow in immersive nostalgia. The recent launch of nostalgia simulator MemoRift and the Transformers tech demo...

Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...

At the most recent Silicon Valley VR meetup, Albert Kim, CEO of DoubleMe, demonstrated his company's technology for creating realtime 3D models from a synchronized collection of 2D images. Subjects step into a small studio consisting of blue-screen walls...

Oculus VR today posted an official shipping update on the highly anticipated Oculus Rift DK2. The company confirms that the first batch of DK2s have left the manufacturing facility and are on the way to distribution centers. Now at...

Last week Google surprised the crowd at I/O 2014 with the reveal of Cardboard, a low-cost VR smartphone adapter which the company gave away to every developer in attendance. Google, who praise Oculus for "putting VR back into the...

While I was in Los Angeles for E3 2014, I had the opportunity to spend some time with the Kite and Lightning guys. They showed me a project called "Genesis" that took took my breath away. For me, the best...

Project Tango is project from the labs of Google that represents the cutting edge in realtime environment capture and modelling. The system, currently running only on dedicated hardware prototypes (codenamed 'Peanut'), uses advanced depth and plus high resolution optical...

Some time ago we covered an event run by immersive experience specialists Inition that featured a very simple conceit; walk the plank in virtual reality and reality wearing an Oculus Rift VR Headset. The resulting experience was extremely successful and...

A new project by Polish open source software tutorial website mepi.pl aims to give you the opportunity to follow your own movements as if you were a 3rd person spectator on your own life. The project rigs a dual, customised webcams...

When the Kite & Lightning developers told me they had something to show me that couldn't physically be demonstrated anywhere else, I was intrigued. Little did I know, upon arriving at their office, that I would be stepping into...