Virtual Reality

Valve’s Index virtual reality headset is the first that can be plugged into VirtualLink, the USB-C port you’ll find on most Nvidia RTX 2070 and greater Nvidia RTX 20-series graphics cards. But it only partially earns this distinction, as Valve’s support for V…

Facebook’s F8 developer conference kicked off today, and the company just finished its opening keynote. Its overwhelming theme, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that “the future is private.” After a year plagued by controversy over whether Facebook is inv…

Following last months tease, today Valve officially announced the Valve Index, a high-fidelity virtual reality headset with impressive specs, cool new controllers and a $1,000 price tag. The Valve Index headset features a pair of 1440x1600 RGB LCD displays …

There's a new challenger in the virtual reality scene, and it's the priciest option yet. Valve, the company behind the online game retailer Steam, introduced the Valve Index on Tuesday. While it'll be available in multiple configurations, the full $999 bundl…

More than three years after Facebook released one of the biggest gambles in its existence, a virtual reality headset it paid billions to launch as its own, the company has grown more embattled but its moonshot VR flagship has grown safer. Facebook’s sequel t…

The Oculus Quest addresses everything that’s wrong with PC and mobile virtual reality these days: It cuts the cords and puts the sensors on the device, giving you freedom of movement that Oculus Rift and HTC Vive can’t offer. And it gives you the horsepower t…

Valves next-generation virtual reality unit, known as Index, is an impressive plaything with a fistful of design advances beyond the old Vive. Its also expensive, and lacking for now any particular reason for purchase in the way of compelling new games. Las…

If there’s one thing our community is good at, it’s re-imagining redundant old hardware, particularly in the field of classic gaming consoles and their peripherals. Dead consoles have become new ones, Powergloves have ventured into virtual reality, and light …

At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, the experiential director becomes the subject For the last few years, filmmaker and technologist Eliza McNitt ‘s virtual reality experience SPHERES charted in several of our lists of favorites from film festival’s around …

For a 2017 work by Olafur Eliasson, the Acute Art team created an uncanny reproduction of a waterfall with a realistic rainbow shimmer. (It was a nightmare to build, Mr. Eliasson said.) The Berlin-based artist is used to working with digital technology, and h…