Hassan Karaouni is one of the 11 winners of an Oculus Launch Pad scholarship for his project My: home, which allows people to share 360 videos of locations that are meaningful to them. In my Voices of VR episode...

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...

Aerofly from developers IPACS is a flight simulator which aims to bring realistic visuals to the VR-enabled civilian flight-sim genre, and it looks stunning. One interesting side effect of virtual reality and its early adoption by the games industry is...

At NVIDIA's GTC event earlier this month, NASA gave a talk which revealed just how important virtual reality has become to the organisation's Astronaut training program. This talk includes video demonstrations of NASA's advanced experiments designed to give workers...

This enthusiast video which uses green screen video capture to fuse virtual reality footage, demonstrates how impressively accurate VR racing games are becoming. The trend set by the excellent mixed reality videos from Northway Games, showcasing their excellent room-scale title Fantastic...

That pinball-playing street gang you joined for protection as a kid ('The Pinball Wizards', duh) have laughed at you your whole life. Why? You never owned your very own pinball machine! Ok. The premise is bad, but the pinball...

Ever wondered why the law advises not to drive under the influence? A new virtual reality experience from the Virtual Dutchmen and JUNCTION lets you find out as it simulates what it's like to drive a car whilst drunk,...

CDF Starfighter Alpha, a VR sci-fi dogfighter that successfully completed its Steam Greenlight campaign last month, has today released their first gameplay footage showing off some of the game's physics and weapons. CDF Starfighter Alpha, created by Blackpool, UK-based Mag Studios, is...

Now that some of the hardware problems surrounding virtual reality, such as 1:1 head tracking and high frame-rate displays, are being resolved, the ways in which a player's physiology can be brought in line with the mind are being looked...

FlyInside FSX, the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006), has today released the first taste of the project's $30,000 stretch goal—coming to us in the form of a free alpha preview for Prepar3D. Prepar3D, an academic and professional-level flight...

The VOID is a mixed reality experience that builds virtual worlds over physical environments, allowing users to experience enhanced Presence as they're able to feel the actual objects around them and wield real props like lanterns and swords. Road to...

Whilst the the virtual reality industry's focus right now is largely on in-home entertainment, the out-of-home VR sector shows immense promise. A new project called 'The Void' is an out-of-home experience that aims to let players explore physical environments...

Virtual Architectural Visualisation is one of many non-gaming applications for virtual reality, and one that's seeing growth. UE4Arch is a company dedicated to creating and selling hyper-realistic virtual creations that can be experienced in virtual reality. The company works in Unreal...

While virtual reality is a great tool for entertainment, it's about more than just games and movies. It has the potential to assist in treatments during therapies in the medical related fields as well. Even now, researchers are beginning...

We interview Tuncay Cakmak, founder of Cyberith and inventor of the virtual reality omnidirectional treadmill, the Virtualizer, to find out what he and the team have been up to. Plus, a new Skyrim demonstration video. The Cyberith Virtualizer Update: We erroneously...