Virtual Reality

Yesterday, Oculus released Oculus Link Beta for Oculus Quest. It allows you to use your headset with it's gorgeous AMOLED display as an Oculus Rift, essentially. As with any beta software, there a number of issues that you should be aware of going forward. In…

Advanced Micro Devices is launching the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card as its latest assault on Nvidia’s hold on the workstation graphics market. The new graphics card and its chip are powered by AMD’s RDNA architecture, aimed at providing high performan…

The Oculus Quest delivers an untethered virtual reality experience. It's a liberating way to play VR because you don't have to attach your headset to a PC or phone, or use any external cables. While the headset itself is untethered, the Oculus Touch Controlle…

Valve has announced Half-Life: Alyx. Valve Valve has announced a third Half-Life game, this time using virtual reality. The game will drop on Thursday, Nov. 21, the gaming company revealed Monday afternoon. "We're excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our fla…

A second skin: A soft, wireless skin made out of silicone could let the wearer feel objects in virtual reality. In a paper in Nature today, researchers from Northwestern University in the US and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University describe creating a multila…

VR apps are becoming more powerful as VR technology continues to grow and improve. You can even utilise your smartphone or tablet to create impressive virtual reality experiences, so you don't need to invest in a pricey VR headset to give the experience a go.…

Great news: One of Black Fridays most notorious heavy hitters finally dropped their ad for this years deals. (Spoiler: Its Walmart.) We already gave you our predictions for what shopping supergiant Walmart would have to offer during Black Friday 2019s inunda…

Oculus and Unity have teamed up to launch the "Design, Develop, and Deploy for VR" program, aiming to give game developers the building blocks needed to start their first virtual reality projects. The course is already live on Unity’s educational portal and …

Apple (AAPL) is working on a pair of augmented reality and virtual reality headsets, according to separate reports by The Information and Bloomberg.  The first headset, which is said to feature both VR and AR functionality, will launch between 2021 and 2022.…

Four years ago we let you get a first whiff of FeelReal, an experimental virtual reality accessory that let you smell and feel your content along with just looking at it through your existing headset. Since then, VR experiences engaging sight and sound and mo…