Microsoft Teases ‘Cardboard-Like’ Device in VR Hackathon Ad, Then Pulls It

Microsoft has sent some confusing signals about their commitment to both their Windows Phone platform and mobile virtual reality by promoting a Russian VR hackathon using an image of a 'Cardboard' like mobile virtual reality viewer called the 'Microsoft...
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‘CableRobot’: A Crazy Motion Platform for Complete VR Immersion, If it Doesn’t Kill You

Now that some of the hardware problems surrounding virtual reality, such as 1:1 head tracking and high frame-rate displays, are being resolved, the ways in which a player's physiology can be brought in line with the mind are being looked...

How Oculus Studios’ First Touch Shooter Made Me Feel Like a Gun Slingin’ Badass

Dead and Buried is the latest game to come from the first-party Oculus Studios; built specifically for the company's Touch controllers, the game has you gunning down targets backset by an old west mining operation. With your hands directly in...

‘Strangers with Patrick Watson’ to be Remastered for Oculus Rift with Nearly 2x Resolution

Strangers with Patrick Watson by Felix & Paul Studios has been showered with much acclaim. The VR video, which gives users a piano-side seat for an intimate performance by musician Patrick Watson, has only ever been publicly available on Samsung's...

CNN to Livestream Democratic Debate in Virtual Reality with NextVR

CNN and NextVR are teaming up to bring the Democratic presidential debate to VR this October. While NextVR captured the recent CNN Ronald Reagan Debate in VR, the upcoming Democratic debate will be the first to be livestreamed in VR. On October 13th,...

Bill Clinton Features in ‘Inside Impact: East Africa’ VR Film by Felix & Paul

Felix & Paul Studios along with Matter Unlimited have collaborated on a project documenting the work the Clinton Global Initiative have been doing in the region of East Africa. Follow President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea in 360 video...

Twitch VR Will Let you Watch Game Streams with Friends, Coming Soon to Gear VR

During the Oculus Connect keynote address, among the company's many announcements like Netflix for Gear VR and Minecraft for VR, was the news that Twitch is coming to Gear VR. And the best part: you can watch it socially...

8 Wild Oculus ‘Medium’ Creations from Connect

Oculus Medium, the company's new 3D VR sculpting app revealed at this year's Connect, allows anyone to create clay-like works of art from the very simple to the frighteningly realistic with a few swipes of Oculus Touch hand controllers. But don't...

First Look: The ‘Elite: Dangerous’ Experience on HTC Vive is the Best Yet

EGX 2015 was seemingly over flowing with virtual reality headsets this year and interestingly, with the exception of a handful of Playstation VR demo stations, the Valve's flagship VR Headset the HTC Vive dominated. A nice surprise too, Elite:...

Manus Machina Begins to Ship Early Wireless VR Gloves to Developers

Manus Machina, a company dedicated to virtual reality input devices, has begun shipping their first sets of wireless VR gloves to developers. Roaming the halls of Birmingham's NEC covering EGX 2015 today, I bumped into the Manus Machina team, who gave...