A survey of game developers attending the annual GDC conference suggests major growth in the number of developers building games for AR and VR headsets. The 2017 GDC State of the Game Industry report, which gathered data from 4,500 attendees of...

At Unity's Unite keynote in November, Otoy's Jules Urbach announced that their Octane Renderer was going to be built into Unity to bake light field scenes. But this is also setting up the potential for real-time ray tracing of...

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google's Tango technology. We first reported on 8i back in 2015,...

Dave Ranyard, who headed up Sony's London Studio throughout PlayStation VR's development, has announced the formation of a new VR-focused game Dream Reality Interactive. Dave Ranyard was arguably the public face of Sony's Morpheus (aka PlayStation VR) project in the early days...

Ever since Facebook's acquisition of Oculus in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poised the move as a strategic bet on a technology that would eventually change the way we communicate. In the company's most recent earnings call, Zuckerberg asked for...

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio's social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with...

Following the news of a $500 million plaintiff award in the ZeniMax v. Oculus lawsuit, a detailed breakdown of the verdict reveals the jury's specific findings, and who is responsible to pay for the damages. Guest Article by Matt Hooper...

This latest video developer diary from Epic gives a very brief, but insightful overview of how Oculus Touch and Rift tech demo Bullet Train became fully fledged release Robo Recall, and what the developers learned along the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFyIqny8dfY&feature=youtu.be Epic's Robo Recall...

While it wasn't the $4 billion slam dunk ZeniMax was hoping for, a Dallas, TX jury today awarded $500 million to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey had breached nondisclosure agreements. However, Oculus was not found to...

Ahead of the Vive Tracker's consumer launch later this year, HTC plans to send 1,000 units to developers to kickstart an ecosystem of accessories and content which can make use of the device. New developer documentation details the ins...

With 2015 breaking previous records, industry observers entered 2016 wondering if VR/AR funding would be able to keep pace. Guest Article by Clifton Dawson Clifton is Founder & CEO of Greenlight Insights, a specialty market intelligence company focused exclusively on the...

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute...

Virtualitics is new company started by NASA JPL and Caltech alum. offering a new platform to leverage the immersive properties of virtual reality in order to better aid human comprehension and use of 'Big Data'. You've likely heard the term...

Google has put out the welcome mat and unlocked the doors to all developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform, but in order to keep the standards high have also issued a "Quality Requirements" guide. As we reported in...

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...