Valve’s first flagship VR title, Half-Life: Alyx, is now set to launch on March 23rd but unfortunately the company’s Index VR headset is still just about impossible to buy direct. In the meantime, the shortage has seen secondary markets selling the headset at a 150% price premium. Valve Index Stock Check Following up on our global stock …

Virtual reality already plays Jedi mind tricks on your brain, but underwater VR is like a zen Jedi masterstroke.

It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path toward an estimated 2 million monthly-connected headsets.

Only 6,000 headsets sold?

In the seven years since the Oculus Rift showed up on Kickstarter, we’ve seen a plethora of other virtual reality gadgets hit the market. Still, it feels like the tech has yet to make its mainstream breakthrough, and the recent emergence of augmented reality only muddies the waters for potential buyers even further.

This animal liberation group actually wants to be put on trial. Their goal: force jurors to wear VR headsets and immerse them in the suffering of animals bound for slaughter.

VR technology has absolutely dominated the 2019 holiday season as numerous major retailers—both physical and online—continue to sell out of 64GB and 128GB Oculus Quest headsets.

I walked with Jesus, shopped for a sofa, and flew like a bird over New York City.

It was thought VR would be as common as televisions, but despite improvements it is yet to take off.

We're only a few weeks into the new year and there's already been lots of positive news about virtual reality.

Undeterred by Daydream’s death.

IonVR’s Mobile VR Headset (Render Credit: IonVR) The E3 Expo, better known just as “E3”, was held two weeks ago in Los Angeles, and to the delight of gamers around the world watching on YouTube and Twitch, held some major game and game hardware announcements. E3 was also full of emerging [...]

Virtual reality has a less-than-obvious problem with how your eyes focus called vergence-accommodation conflict.

Virtual reality has been a long time coming, but the most notable strides have come in the past few years. Oculus has led a revitalization in VR tech, the development of which had slowed significantly over the preceding decade. Now, a resurgence in consumer VR products has resulted in great strides, and affordable virtual reality kits like the Samsung Gear VR make virtual reality accessible to nearly anyone.

When the $599 price for Facebook’s Oculus Rift was revealed this morning, I was honestly a little shocked the virtual reality headset would run that high. The price might not sound like too much for some people, but consider this: you’ll also need a PC that will likely cost you around $900 to run it, if we were to factor in the price with this earlier statement by Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. But that would likely get you the barebones requirements, so PCWorld's...

Time to put the new Oculus Rift through its paces.

In an analyst note published on Wednesday, Goldman Sachs predicted that the virtual reality (VR) market will outpace the TV market in annual revenue by 2025.

A California U.S District Court has ruled that Oculus founder and Rift VR headset inventor Luckey Palmer must face a lawsuit filed by a former employer. U.S. District Court judge William Alsup (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California) in San Francisco ruled on Saturday that a breach of contract claim could proceed against Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. But it wasn’t a clean-cut victory for Total Recall Technologies; Judge Alsup also dismissed several claims including fraud.

Apple CEO Tim Cook this week said virtual reality "has some interesting applications," so much so the company has already compiled a secret team of hundreds of people to work on the technology, according to the Financial Times. The team was created, the FT says, through calculated acquisitions and the poaching of virtual and augmented reality experts from competitors like Microsoft and camera companies like Lytro.

Special effects pioneer Dennis Muren proclaimed the 1980 classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back the hardest film he ever worked on, because “we had to train people to do work that we barely knew how to do.” That’s a conundrum creative types face: How do you do what’s never been done? Star Wars creator George Lucas and the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) team Muren worked with on the film ended up making their own machines and their own programming.