Hands-on: HTC’s New Vive Tracker Makes VR More Immersive With Specialized Accessories

The Vive accessory market is about to get a huge boost thanks to the newly announced HTC Vive Tracker. Gaming, training, and more benefit from the enhanced immersion that comes from wielding "real" tools, weapons, and instruments. Today I was a...

Intel Says Project Alloy VR/AR Headsets Are Coming in Q4 2017

Intel revealed at their CES 2017 press conference that Project Alloy, their standalone mixed reality headset and reference platform, would be productized “by” Q4 2017 in partnership with major OEMs. Intel also emphasized that they would partner with anyone who...

1,000 Vive Trackers to be Given Away to Developers Ahead of Launch

HTC's new Vive Tracker accessory was announced today, and while the company says it will launch to consumers in Q2 2017, ahead of that release HTC plans to give away at least 1,000 to VR developers. At CES 2017 today,...

Vive Tracker Enables a Bevy of Bats, Guns, Gloves, and Other Tracked Accessories

Today at CES 2017 HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking module that's designed to attach to anything to become tracked in the virtual world. We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive...
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Google Announces Tilt Brush ‘Artist in Residence’ Program Featuring Over 60 Artists

Google have announced a new 'Artist in Residence' program which will see over 60 artists introduced to the emergent artistic platform of virtual reality via the company's own Tilt Brush application. As anyone who's tried it knows, Google's Tilt Brush...

Asus ‘ZenFone AR’ Google Tango, Daydream VR Phone Launched, Specs Revealed

Asus have officially unveiled their new Google Tango and Daydream VR certified phone at a press conference at CES 2017 in Las Vegas and the new device packs some impressive hardware inside it's sleek exterior. Here's the specs in full. As...

Audeze Announces $400 iSine VR Headphones for Rift and Vive

Audio continues to be an important part of VR as different companies are starting to make headphones especially designed for it. Audeze has announced a pair of in-ear headphones that work with the Rift's proprietary connection as well as...
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Sansar Content Creation Experience Unveiled Showing Impressive Results

Virtual world Second Life creator Linden Lab from has revealed what its like to create worlds within their new multi-user creative VR platform Sansar in this new video which follows Second Life veteran content creator Loz Hyde as he builds an...

Making VR Experiences Wheelchair Accessible

Brian Van Buren is a narrative designer at Tomorrow Today Labs, and he's also a wheelchair user who has been evangelizing how to make virtual reality experiences more accessible. I had a chance to catch up with him at...

‘Alien: Covenant’ is Getting a VR Experience

The minds behind the well-executed-but-a-little-too-expensive The Martian VR Experience are working on a new immersive tie in for the next entry in the Alien movie franchise, Alien: Covenant. Movie tie-ins, once reviled in the gaming community, often viewed as worthless, lazy...