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...

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...

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch...

Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they'd raised a seed round from "Tier 1" VC firms. Today the company has announced details of that round and where they're heading next. Bigscreen is simple but...

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...

At NVIDIA's upcoming GTC 2017 conference on May 8-11, the company plans to award $30,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of the VR Content Showcase which is seeking companies focusing on content other than gaming which is using or...

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...

Sony's Magic Lab are set to demonstrate a new procedural animation system which it says allows VR characters found in VR to "imbue a sense of shared space with the player" with realistic eye, head and body movements. GDC 2017...

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any...

Today at the China International Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy 2016), HTC announced the first batch of companies to take part in their recently announced Vive X Accelerator program. The cohort of 33 VR startups, coming from across the industry, will see...

Today Rothenberg Ventures has announced the launch of the first VR accelerator, 'River', created to jumpstart early-stage companies working on exciting virtual reality projects. To start, Rothenberg Ventures plans to invest $1 million across 10 companies, and they're accepting applications...

Immersive media company Matterport have just announced they're to make available what they claim is the world's largest collection of VR-focussed real-world models and locations in a bid to become a source of experiences for VR consumers. Update: The original...

Oculus’ new developer hub website is up and running, featuring better navigation, documentation and search capabilities. The improvements address many of the requests and feedback received from the recent global developer survey, and follows an initiative to increase overall...

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...

BigScreen is a new VR application which brings you and your computer into a shared virtual space with your friends. The company is today leaving stealth to announce the closing of a seed round and that former Convrge creator Hayden...