The 360 film industry is still young and it's maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they're going, and why. Guest...

Yesterday five US congressional representatives announced the formation of a 'Congressional Caucus on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality'. The bipartisan caucus will be co-chaired by: Yvette Clarke (D-New York) Suzan DelBene (D-Washington) Bill Flores (R-Texas)' Darrell Issa (R-California) Ted Lieu...

Oculus just officially announced that they'd be winding down Story Studio, the company's internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost, Henry, and Dear Angelica. Along with the closure, the company also says they're earmarking $50 million to...

The Meta 2 augmented reality dev kit began pre-orders in March of 2016 and has apparently seen quite a bit of interest. By the end of 2016, the company says they began shipping the first Meta 2 dev kits,...

By now it's trite to call any CG VR film studio "the Pixar of VR," but one reason for that pervasive comparison is that Pixar's waxy-textured, brightly-colored, hard-edged geometry has become a dominant style for big-budget CG films. But we hear over...

IMR is one of several companies creating technology to enable a future where high-end VR headsets can break free of the tether that keeps them connected to the host PC. The company's secret sauce is their proprietary compression algorithm...

HTC announced a serious looking upgrade for its Vive headset earlier this year at CES 2017. The 'Deluxe Audio Strap' replaces the original device's harness and upgrades it with integrated headphones and a new, more robust adjustable head assembly. Update...

The keynote from Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity's xR strategy is Tony Parisi,...

Though there's surely many talents folks at Valve responsible for the company's VR initiatives, over the last several years Chet Faliszek has become a front-facing evangelist and go-to spokesperson for VR at Valve. Now after 12 years with the company,...

It's been a long time coming for a racing simulator originally released in 2013, but rFactor 2 has just taken an exciting new step for VR fans as the game's latest beta not only adds DX11 support for enhanced...