VR First, the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it's nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. With currently 26...

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...

Downward Spiral: Prologue (2017) is a sci-fi adventure game that takes you into a lovingly recreated '70s retro future of CRT monitors and space stations abound. Featuring a single-player and coop mission, and multiplayer deathmatch mode Downward Spiral: Prologue feels like...

Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million...

Robinson: The Journey is the hotly anticipated PSVR exclusive from Crytek that puts players in the shoes of a lone survivor on an alien planet. If you're looking for FPS action, you won't find it here; Robinson: The Journey is all...

Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. The winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve after a period of public voting. Introduced during the...

Having launched initially with VR on the Oculus Rift in 2016, new DiRT Rally DLC adds PSVR support to the acclaimed racing game. The $13 DLC also brings a new 'Co-Driver Mode' that lets one player act as the navigator....

Dominic Brennan gets his hands on ESI Group's latest iteration of IC.IDO, their automotive visualisation tool that uses CAD-accurate data to generate extremely realistic VR simulations which let you take apart (or fix) your own virtual car. The GPU Technology...

Some of the inner workings of Valve's Lighthouse base station, an infrared laser-emitting device used for 'room scale' positional tracking, were revealed today by Valve developer Joe Ludwig. Ludwig's SVVR Conference talk entitled "OpenVR and You" addressed a number of issues dealing...

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...

During a Q&A on Reddit, Valve head Gabe Newell affirmed that the company is continuing development its own first-party VR content, as well as exploring interests in new technologies which could play a part in Valve's future. After dodging a flurry...

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...

Final Fantasy fans can officially save their pennies, because the latest instalment, Final Fantasy XV, is making its way to PlayStation VR later this year - the only problem is we still don't know exactly what form the so-called VR experience will...

While it wasn't the $4 billion slam dunk ZeniMax was hoping for, a Dallas, TX jury today awarded $500 million to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey had breached nondisclosure agreements. However, Oculus was not found to...

Wake Up from Austrian developers Black Cell is a new, surreal subversion of the traditional puzzle and exploration genres sporting some beautiful art direction and some arresting sound design. Many's the time I've waffled on about the importance of sound in...