With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today's VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for...

Pokémon Go, the latest "AR" infused sequel to the classic Nintendo franchise is sweeping the world on mobile phone platforms. But what would it look like running on a dedicated augmented reality headset? Developer CapitolaVR decided to find out by...

Matthew Magee ponders virtual reality's potential impact on game development culture and how immersive technology may encourage a renaissance in independent, disruptive bedroom coders a.k.a the Pyjama People. Guest Article by Matthew Magee A twenty year career as a Software Engineer started in...

Social media company Snapchat have just appointed a Hollywood effects artist Raffael Dickreuter who joined in June as a "Concept and Augmented Reality Designer." Snapchat is a rising giant in social media platforms, and it seems the company is serious about keeping...

Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. In this case it's a transparent, high field of view display which looks to be aimed at the augmented reality sector and, alongside other...

Envelop VR want to pull your every day computing environment into the virtual realm as the company launch their first closed beta for what they describe as "an immersive computing platform that brings the best out of your PC while...

This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...

Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and "toys to life" company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space. Starbreeze seems to...

Taiwan-based electronics firm Acer recently announced an investment into game studio Starbreeze equating to the sum of $9M USD, an amount intended to further the manufacture and commercialization of Starbreeze's high-FOV, high resolution StarVR headset. The investment, which comes on the heels of the news...

Tipatat Chennavasin is a general partner at The VR Fund, which is an early stage VC fund focusing exclusively on virtual reality and augmented reality startups. One of the services that Tipatat does for the community is maintain a...

This is a quick demonstration video released by ILMxLab and Magic Leap to mark the announcement of the two company's newly announced collaboration. They've set up a "collaboration lab" in order to work on immersive experiences using Lucasfilm IP...

At the WIRED Business Conference today, augmented reality technology specialist Magic Leap and Lucasfilm's ILMxLab have announced a "collaboration lab" to be used to work together on immersive experiences using Magic Leap's technology. In a surprise move, Magic Leap's founder...

Felix & Paul Studios, the creative and technical force behind 360 VR films such as 'Strangers' and 'Zarkana' have announced that they're to receive $6.8 in series A funding to expand their creative immersive enterprise. Some of the earliest pioneers in...

On Monday, Meta, the company building AR HMDs that allow the wearer to manipulate holographic objects within the wearer’s visual field and the headset’s field of view (90 degrees, in the Meta II), among other things, announced that it's...

Today Razer is announcing a $5 million OSVR development fund which the company will use to incentivize support of its open-source VR platform. With tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars being invested by Oculus and HTC into content...