Limitless Entertainment is a new startup created by Tom Sanocki who hails from two of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, Pixar and Bungie. He saw the promise of virtual reality and decided he had to be involved. We talked to Tom...

Finnish benchmarking company Basemark have today announced that they're working with game technology house Crytek to produce a virtual reality specific benchmark to test how well your gaming hardware can handle the forthcoming consumer VR revolution. Hot on the heels...

Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled a prototype VR Headset which they claim reduce the effects of VR sickness through the use of an innovative 'stacked' display which generates naturalistic light fields. VR display technology continues to evolve rapidly, with...

At GDC Europe 2015, Autodesk has announced that their new Stingray game engine will launch worldwide on August 19th. The engine will support the Oculus Rift VR headset out of the box. Autodesk is the maker of industry standard computer...

The HTC Vive came to London recently, courtesy of Valve and PlayHubs, to form the centrepiece of a dedicated VR Jam. Mike Algar charts his room-scale developer adventures for us in this guest post from inside the event. Mike Alger is...

With multiple proprietary VR systems on their way to retail, development fragmentation in the VR market has recently become a hot topic in the VR community. In this guest article, a veteran developer who goes by the name of...

AMD demonstrated its commitment to the future of virtual reality during last month's E3 2015 by pulling together big name industry executives, content creators, and retailers to discuss the practical future of consumer virtual reality. The results were a refreshingly...

Matterport, a company specializing in the capture and digital reconstruction of real-world environments, has announced a $30 million Series C investment round led by Qualcomm Ventures. The company says that the new investment brings its total funding to $56 million....

Fove is today announcing that the company has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Samsung Ventures to further their eye-tracking VR headset, and additionally firms up their commitment to support Valve's Lighthouse positional tracking technology. Having now raised 180%...

Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects company founded by George Lucas, have announced a new project group called ILMxLAB, an internal research group that focuses on "all manner of immersive entertainment." ILMvLAB aims to develop a number of immersive media projects, including...

Rothenberg Ventures, the San Francisco based VC firm behind the 'River' VR accelerator is opening their doors for a second class of VR startups. The company seeks to invest another $1 million across 10 companies after a successful inaugural...

Oculus announced at their pre-E3 'Step into the Rift' event that they would be committing more than $10 million to accelerate indie VR developers. The investment fund signifies the largest amount of money ever publicly earmarked by Oculus for third-party content...

At yesterday's Oculus 'Step into the Rift' event, Oculus listed some stats about the spread of the Rift DK1 and DK2 development kits, showing that more than 175,000 units have been sold. The Oculus Rift DK1 dev kit was the...

Chris Pruett, Oculus’ head of developer relations and co-founder of Robot Invader, elucidates more about the technical knacks for optimizing Unity-based works intended for the Samsung Gear VR mobile platform. See Also: Oculus Shares Optimization Tips for Unity-based Gear VR Projects In...

Though people speak of the 'metaverse'—a vast network of interconnected virtual worlds—as a far flung future concept, in reality we already have the underlying structure built and functioning on a massive scale; it's called the internet and it connects billions...