During Facebook's Q4 2015 earnings call this week the company reiterated conservative expectations for Oculus Rift sales in 2016. Responding to a question by Macquarie Group analyst Ben Schachter, Facebook CFO Dave Wehner said that revenues relating to the Rift wouldn't be "material"...

Samsung had a huge presence at Sundance this year as the mobile sponsor of the festival. They were evangelizing Gear VR to independent filmmakers with their Gear VR theater as well as collaborating with Sundance's New Frontier program to...

BUTTS: The VR Experience has today come to Gear VR, released by creator Tyler Hurd. We just can't get enough of BUTTS. Today's Gear VR release of BUTTS, the whimsical animated tale featuring Ren and Stimpy-style animation, adds to an already...

Chris Madsen steps into the beloved universes of Star Wars and Jurassic World via ILMxLab's ingenious 3D C.A.V.E experience which uses positional tracking to create the illusion that you're inside the film. It's called 'Holo-Cinema'. While at the Sundance Film Festival,...

Virtual reality has an amazing capacity to make you feel like you are somewhere else, and to step into new worlds. But as far as actually being an accurate stand-in for most real life activities, VR still has a...

One of the best narrative VR experiences that I had at Sundance New Frontier was 6x9, an immersive experience of solitary confinement. You might ask, "Why would you ever want to do that?" Well, it was less about having...

While shooters and adventure games are a natural fit for VR, Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is one of the most unique VR titles to date. It's a genre-defying mix of puzzle, humor, and, in a way, exploration, in a form that...

This is footage of artist Wesley Allsbrook, using an Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch motion controllers to paint in virtual 3D space in front of a live audience using Oculus Story Studio's 'professional' VR paint package 'Quill'. At Sundance Yesterday,...

When we first learned about Final Approach last year, we thought it looked a lot like a VR version of games like Flight Control (iOS, 2009). And while that wouldn't be a bad thing—as Flight Control is a great little...

Today Valve is hosting a SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, WA. Featured are titles from 12 VR developers, all of which will ship on the HTC Vive in 2016, says Valve. With the HTC Vive approaching pre-orders at the end...