Epic Games today announced that Unreal Engine 5 is now available in early access, including a new template for VR projects built on OpenXR 1.0, the industry-backed standard for building device-agnostic VR and AR applications. Epic Games is bringing heaps...

The full release of Godot 3.0 is now available, bringing VR support to the engine via a lightweight, 3DoF, ‘Cardboard-like’ solution, and OpenVR support through a GDNative-based plugin. The multiplatform Godot Engine is an open source, non-profit project available...

As part of this week’s EVE: Valkyrie update, which includes AI improvements, balance tweaks, and stability fixes, the game has also received some visual optimisations courtesy of Nvidia VRWorks. Suitable for higher-spec Nvidia cards (GTX 1070 and above), the...

The latest release of Unity, version 2017.1 now officially supports NVIDIA's VRWorks rendering tech. VRWorks contains a number of rendering features unique to the company's GPUs which are designed to improve performance in VR applications. Update (7/13/17):  After several months...

Amazon announced VR support for Lumberyard, their free of cost CryEngine-based game engine, at last year's GDC, but this year the company is pushing the feature specs of the engine, maintaining that Lumberyard is the first game engine to directly...

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch...

Pete Moss is known as the "VR Dude" within Unity, and has long seen the potential of virtual reality. He's really been on the frontlines of this virtual reality revolution over the past 3-4 years creating a bridge between...

Epic Games' popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12 now sporting Google VR 'Daydream' and OSVR native support. It also ships with a preview of the company's impressive VR Editor, which allows developers to...

At a special event at GDC this morning, Unity's Principal Designer Timoni West showed off the latest prototype of Unity's new Virtual Reality editor that lets you build VR applications and games as if you were a god. The two biggest...

Epic's presence at GDC and VRDC reflects it's importance in this next phase of virtual reality application development as it's Unreal Engine drives a significant number of new games and applications in the VR space heading into 2016. Watch...

Autodesk are continuing to push their virtual reality credentials with the latest version of their Stingray game engine which adds expanded VR support including HTC Vive and Oculus SDK 0.8 integration plus a new 3D character creation workflow. Autodesk, well...

Dioselin Gonzalez is a senior VR engineer at Unity Labs who is working on bringing VR creation tools to the masses. Project "Carte Blanche" will be launching sometime in 2017 and will be targeting desktop VR consumers with an...

Sylvio Drouin is the Executive Vice President of Unity Labs, which for the past year has been doing advanced research into VR authoring tools both for developers and consumers as well as graphic research. I caught up with Sylvio...

Today at Vision Summit 2016 in Hollywood, Timoni West, principal designer at Unity Technologies, took the stage to show Unity's answer to the recently revealed Unreal Engine 4 VR editor. West demonstrated Unity's newly revealed VR scene editor using the Oculus...

Unreal Engine 4 has been at the forefront of virtual reality (VR) for some time now, but this new augmented reality plugin allows developers to take real world imagery and overlay virtual imagery onto it, as this new video...