VR Ears was successfully crowdfunded back in May, garnering nearly $200,000 over the course of its month-long Kickstarter campaign. Now the developers Rebuff Reality say its off-ear speaker accessory for VR headsets will ship out a few months later than previously...

Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to...

Steam Audio, Valve's free made-for-VR spatial audio system, has added support for AMD's GPU-based TrueAudio Next technology, as well as the popular FMOD audio software. AMD TrueAudio Next Today Valve announced the release of Steam Audio 2.0 beta 13 which now...

Described by Danish developer Decochon as a “revolutionary music sandbox for VR”, MuX features virtual, low-level synth components that can be connected together and adjusted to generate unique sounds. The various tools allow the creation of complex electronic instruments,...

Google today released a new spatial audio software development kit called 'Resonance Audio', a cross-platform tool based on technology from their existing VR Audio SDK. Resonance Audio aims to make VR and AR development easier across mobile and desktop...

In a new series of articles on the official Oculus Developer Blog, the company is offering an overview of additions to the Oculus Audio SDK, specifically new techniques for near-field 3D audio and volumetric sound source rendering. These articles...

Oculus Connect 4, the company's fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what's coming to the company's VR Audio...

Peripheral manufacturer Bionik are building a Rift-life aftermarket integrated headphone solution for the PlayStation VR called 'Mantis' and, they look pretty neat too. Regardless of which VR headset you personally may prefer, there's little argument that the Oculus Rift's solution...

Valve today announced the Steam Audio SDK, a spatial audio plugin that the company says is made is designed to "enhance all interactive products, specifically VR applications." The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity,...

Here's a close look at Sennheiser's new AMBEO VR microphone in all its glory as demonstrated at last week's CES 2017 in Las Vegas. It's the company's first step into VR audio and it's just received wide release for a...

Audio continues to be an important part of VR as different companies are starting to make headphones especially designed for it. Audeze has announced a pair of in-ear headphones that work with the Rift's proprietary connection as well as...

THX has announced the development of a new audio amplifier chip which the company claims offers "the world's lowest levels of distortion and noise," along with "incredibly low power consumption," positioning the amplifier for mobile VR headsets, wireless headphones,...

Announced at Oculus Connect 3 and launching alongside Touch, the Oculus Earphones were touted as a noise-isolating, more immersive alternative to the standard headphones. After days of using and testing the Earphones, I’ve been able to judge how good...

AMD has announced TrueAudio Next a "scalable" physics-based audio rendering engine for generating environmentally accurate, GPU accelerated audio for virtual reality. AMD has announced a set of key technologies to bolster its open source technology arsenal represented by GPUOpen, this...

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...