Flying in virtual reality, a commonly held wish by enthusiasts since the dawn of the technology. The prospect of swooping over virtual landscapes, your mind convinced your body has taken flight is an extremely enticing one. Now that virtual...

Altspace (formerly Qualia3D) is announcing that they've raised $2.5 million in venture capital to develop a shared virtual reality browsing environment. Investors include Google Ventures, Formation 8, Dolby Family Ventures, and more. Altspace is developing a shared VR environment...

We wrote about Atajrubah recently and noted that the development team had moved to Unreal Engine 4 after spending much of the game's life up to that point as a UE3 project. The Oculus Rift enabled open world survival...

Unreal Engine 4 launched to developers around the world back in March and immediately impressed. Epic's successor to its near ubiquitous UE3, which dominated much of the last generation of game development, was designed from the ground up to...

So to continue the retro / nostalgia theme that started with the release of MemoRift, we bring you news of somewhat more hardcore retro and emulation option for those wanting to try and bring their enjoyment of retro PC...

If I were to say I liked the original Playstation game Wipeout, it would be disingenuous. I adored it! Back when 'next gen' consoles really delivered genuinely groundbreaking home gaming experiences, Wipeout lead the charge of 3D gaming...

I've written before how virtual reality might well enable new and more powerful ways to re-live moments from the past or just gently wallow in immersive nostalgia. The recent launch of nostalgia simulator MemoRift and the Transformers tech demo...

Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...

A new project by Polish open source software tutorial website mepi.pl aims to give you the opportunity to follow your own movements as if you were a 3rd person spectator on your own life. The project rigs a dual, customised webcams...

We reported on MemoRift a little while back and admired it's approach to providing users looking for a virtual reality room in which to experience your nostalgic applications within. We bring good news. MemoRift R1 is now available from their...

We reported on RiftAway's venture into white knuckle fantasy ride simulator Cyber Space a little while ago and mused on it's potential status as the ultimate in testing your VR Legs. Now, RiftAway has released a new version of the...

Let's face it, there's a large proportion of people reading this post that hold a secret (or not so secret) desire to kick Imperial ass using nothing but the Force and a Lightsaber. Well a hacker named Benjamin Teitler just...

So here's a story that brings the use of virtual reality that bit closer to the Hollywood fantasies of l33t computer hackers. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) have apparently been working for the last 2 years on a...

I had some time on the last day of E3 2014 to hang out with Anton Mikhailov and Jeff Stafford, members of the Sony Project Morpheus team. They were wrapping up their final demos and wanted me to come...

One of the defining and ingratiating aspects of Oculus VR as a company is their openness in sharing their progress and gathering knowledge  from places other than their own offices. Their engagement with the community and their willingness to...