Kite and Lightning’s ‘Bebylon’ to Debut at VR World Congress in April

VR World congress (VRWC) is a new, UK based virtual reality event aiming to highlight the latest and greatest from the rapidly growing VR scene. For the inaugural event, virtual reality 'Auteurs' Kite & Lightning will be present to...

New Project Sansar Image Shows Beautiful Mars VR World Created in “a Few Hours”

Project Sansar from Second Life creator Linden Lab is a new virtual world, built for virtual reality which promises world building tools capable of generating scenes like the one featured here which was created in "just a few hours". Project...

Valve’s Gabe Newell to Address Vision VR/AR Summit Alongside Oculus, Sony and Google

The 2016 Vision VR/AR Summit focuses on immersive technologies and in its inaugural year is boasting quite a long list of luminaries as part its line up. This year, alongside addresses from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, Clay Bavor, Vice President...
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First Look: Unreal Engine Will Soon Let You Build VR inside VR

Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here's what it looks like. The VR renaissance has inspired...

The Four Different Types of Stories in VR

For the past year, Devon Dolan has been trying to make sense of the interactive storytelling landscape that's possible within virtual reality. He comes from a world of story where he's currently an associate at Cinetic Media, which is...

AltspaceVR is Now Available for Gear VR

Social VR platform AltspaceVR today announced the general release of their Gear VR app—now making their software cross-compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Not too long ago, AltspaceVR only allowed users into their social platform for special 'beta weekends' where anyone could mingle, browse webpages or watch...

John Carmack’s Quest to Bring Minecraft to Virtual Reality

It came as quite a surprise at Oculus’ developer conference back in September that Minecraft would come to support the Oculus Rift CV1 and Gear VR. And while that gives players something to look forward to as the Rift...
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Microsoft Teases the Future of the Super Bowl with HoloLens

Microsoft has splashed out on a promotional video designed to demonstrate its vision of a Super Bowl future, augmented by its untethered, augmented reality headset HoloLens, demonstrating how it could used in the home to enhance the football viewing experience. Microsoft's HoloLens...

‘Ai Weiwei 360’ is an In-Depth Tour of the Artist’s Most Important Works

The works of Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei have been featured in exhibitions all around the world, and now you can step into the mind of the man himself with the new Ai Weiwei 360 experience. The stereoscopic 3D tour is...

7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick

You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put...