After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google's platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 and is now ready for download. Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has...

SEA VR, the largest VR conference in the Pacific Northwest, has renamed itself as the “Immerse Technology Summit,” and will be held this year on October 11th in Bellevue, Washington. The summit organizers say they dropped the “VR” moniker...

Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. On the subject of virtual and augmented reality Apple is still largely...

Fledgling production studio The Rogue Initiative have revealed their first VR game project as Crowe: The Drowned Armory, an original sci-fi fantasy adventure which, from the newly release key art, looks promising. The Rogue Initiative describe themselves as a "full spectrum...

Vertebrae, a virtual reality advertising platform that promises to bring ad supported monetization to VR publishers, today announced a $10 million series A fundraising. Vertebrae's platform, now out of stealth, is currently in private beta for use by content publishers such as entertainment...

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...

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...

Leap Motion has announced it's to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine, a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands. If you've ever spent time with a...

Steel Wool Studios has picked up a $5 million investment from HTC. The studio was formed in 2011 by Pixar and LucasArts alumni. Steel Wool Studios, which today announced a $5 million Series A investment from HTC, was founded in...

Google, who has now has several major VR initiatives underway, notes major gains in interest in virtual reality and 360 degree video capture and sharing. The company is now prompting brands to consider what role VR will play in...

In a survey published by VRDC, AR and VR developers are largely leaning toward platform agnostic development for their next projects. While Oculus and Valve/HTC continue to take two different approaches to stoking the development of VR games and applications—Oculus...

Guns are cool. Magic is cool. Motion controls are cool. Combine all three with virtual reality and you have a prototype experience that looks, well, really cool! Developers have now had access to retail quality, VR-focused motion controllers via the...

Microsoft have just launched a new HoloLens 'Commercial Suite' which packages the augmented reality visor as ready for business with numerous new features and benefits for business buyers. Microsoft's augmented reality visor HoloLens has been available to developers for some...

Fellow virtual reality news outlet VRFocus has launched 'Virtual Reality Challenge' and has hopes for it to become the largest hackathon of its kind in the UK dedicated to virtual reality content. Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace...