In 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave "The Mother of All Demos" where he gave the first public demonstration of a mouse as a computer control device. For the last 48 years, the mouse and keyboard have remained the primary input...

At the company's annual I/O conference, Google announced the Daydream VR platform and mobile headset that will be coming to the latest Android phones later this year. There's a DIY dev kit that you can start using today to...

This footage of a physics-driven, motion-controlled robot brawler not only looks amazing, but also features an extremely clever VR control mechanic we'd love to get our hands on. Of all the sub genres I'd ever considered as "things I'd love to...

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 has quickly become the #1 mobile game of all time, and while there's been some debate as to whether it should be considered Augmented Reality or not, it's clear that location-based gaming has taken to the next...

What are the game design considerations for creating a VR experience that will be compelling for not only the primary player, but also the spectators who may be watching it on a livestream with VREAL? This was the big...

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...

Machine Learning has the potential to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST http://d1icj85yqthyoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Voices-of-VR-390-George-Dolbier.mp3 For instance, developers could integrate cloud-based AI services into...

Azad Balabanian is the co-host of the ResearchVR podcast where he discusses the latest cognitive science research that applies to virtual reality with fellow cognitive scientists Petr Legkov and Krzysztof Izdebski. The premise of their work in VR is...

Born out of a lengthy period of experimentation, Lucid Trips begins with a novel method of locomotion and follows through with a unique approach to game design and multiplayer interactivity. Lucid Trips is an excellent example of the sort of...

Oculus has recently released an intuitive learning tool for developers and designers looking to get into the medium. While it can be useful in wrapping your head around the do's and don'ts of VR design, Oculus maintains that the info...

XEODesign's Nicole Lazarro has been researching emotional reactions of gamers in VR to discover the unique properties of the medium. You can't just port a 2D game into VR and expect it to work, and so she's calling for...

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...

NVIDIA today announces DesignWorks VR, a new set of tools that sit alongside their recently launched GameWorks VR SDK, focussed instead on the creation of physical objects in virtual space. NVIDIA's Quadro line of cards have been around for quite...