Virtual Reality

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…

Nintendo just added free updates to Nintendo Switch blockbusters Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild that introduce virtual reality modes to both games, but youll be perfectly fine if you skip them. Mario Odysseys new VR mode cons…

Baobab Studios took the wraps off its next original virtual reality creation yesterday, debuting a trailer for the short VR film Bonfire. The full episode will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week. I was able to play the episode on the HTC…

Storm warning.Ransomware interrupted The Weather Channel's morning show On Thursday morning, from 6AM to 7:39AM, viewers weren't able to learn any useful weather information from The Weather Channel. The TV network had to show a taped program instead of airi…

Chris gets beaten by a pickle. Anna Marie gazes into the rep grind. Kelley migrates to Ding Dong Dell. And Pascal's future is made of virtual reality. But really, Moon Child? The post RPGCast – Episode 457: “HDMI Toaster” appeared first on RPGamer...Read More