Before his death, acclaimed psychonaut and technologist Terrence McKenna once said that virtual reality "...is a technology that will allow us to show each other our dreams. We will be able to build structures in the imagination that we...

NVIDIA recently announced the first steps towards supporting foveated rendering with Multi-Res Shading as well as VR SLI integration in Unreal Engine 4. I talked with Nvidia's Tony Tamasi, the senior vice president of content and technology, at the VRX Conference...

Noah Nelson is back with another instalment of Immersion Point and this week digs into Landmark Entertainment's recent unveiling of their new 'Pavilion of Me' project, an immersive content platform designed to be the first step on the road...

Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use. Story Studio has the funds, and...

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey revealed today at Vision Summit 2016 that the company would be giving away 4 months of Unity Professional Edition for free with the purchase of an Oculus Rift. The move comes as a bid to entice consumers...

Jesse Schell wrote the book "The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses," and his company Schell Games produced I Expect You to Die. It's one of the top-ranked VR games on Oculus Share, and it also won...

Dora Cheng is one of the co-founders of uForis VR, which is a VR company that is focused on creating pragmatic applications of virtual reality. One of their first big VR projects was to create virtual tours for the...

Czech developers Dreadlocks, the company behind crowd funded RPG Dex, have launched their latest Kickstarter campaign for Ghost Theory, a VR focussed horror title that casts you as a clairvoyant paranormal investigator. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadlocks/ghost-theory The latest horror title to take advantage of virtual...

Cognitive VR is an VR analytics platform that has an impressive system for visualizing a player's movements and gaze within a 3D representation of a VR experience. Their SceneExplorer tool translates the 3D geometry from a Unity or Unreal...

Welcome to the 1st in our 3 part series of developer diaries from Rebellion covering the making of the forthcoming PlayStation VR title Battlezone, a reboot of the 1980 Atari arcade classic in virtual reality. In this entry, Senior Designer...

Outside of the more visible publicity surrounding announcements at Oculus Connect 2 in September, the event is of course primarily a developer focused event, designed to bring creators up to speed with the latest in virtual reality techniques and technology....

Crytek recently announced a new initiative that they're calling VR First. The goal is form so-called 'VR First Labs' within academic institutions to act as ready-made centers for a wave of future VR developers. Crytek is the company behind CryEngine, a...

Zappar, a London-based developer in the Augmented Reality space, is announcing the closing of its Series A funding round. The $3.75m investment will accelerate the development of several new products along with increased support for ZapWorks, their flagship content...

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...

James McCrae wants to lower the barrier to entry for creating virtual worlds with janusVR. He has a PhD in computer science from University of Toronto, and he's created a sophisticated technology stack that allows front-end web developers to...