Feral Rites is a third-person VR adventure-brawler from Insomniac Games released for the Oculus Rift. Set on a mystical island, you play as a beefed-out warrior trying to avenge your father's death by kicking, punching and slashing everyone in your way. Feral...

The ‘VR One’ from MSI debuts at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The backpack provides tetherless VR gameplay powered by NVIDIA's 10-series GPUs with a hot-swappable battery for extended VR gaming without a tether. Each time we try mobile VR,...

Motion capture techniques are used throughout the VFX industry, but a new project from Mo-cap specialist and developer Jasper Brekelmans aims to bring live, augmented reality previews for motion capture performance, unlocking the ability to preview dances in realtime overlaid onto reality. Visual...

One of the world's oldest competitive games is to get the immersive video treatment as this November's World Championship is streamed live in 360 video. Yes, you read that right. The 2016 Chess World Championships are to set to be...

Google's Cardboard Camera lets you capture immersive photos from smartphone hardware you already own. The app has now launched on iOS, letting you snap 360 degree 3D photos from your iPhone. Cardboard Camera launched on Android late last year. The...

The IEEE VR conference held a new pre-conference workshop this year on Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments. Movies like Lord of the Rings and video games like Assassin's Creed use this research in order to create convincing...

Cloudlands: VR Minigolf's new level editor makes creating and sharing new courses a snap. Level editors in videogames can greatly expand available content thanks to community-made creations, but actually learning how to use them can involve a steep learning curve, often...

Virtual reality has been described as a 'new medium'—that is, a canvas for creation which is unique among other forms (books, radio, paint, music, video, etc). The truth of this is becoming abundantly clear thanks to artists who are...

Swedish robotics specialists are working on a system to allow game developers to deliver realistic, realtime and dynamic interaction animations, so that your VR hands can finally grasp in-game objects convincingly. By the end of this year, every major virtual reality...

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars' Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. What's more, it's coming to VR soon and you can download the...