VR

From a distance, filmmakers seem to live a pretty magical life, free to pack up and head off to far-flung locales and bring their creative visions to life. Visual artist and director Shane Griffin loves that part of his job, of course, but he also knows the r…

Enlarge/ A user traverses a park while wearing a DreamWalker kit. 2 with 2 posters participating Researchers at Microsoft have developed new VR technologies that they claim allow users to remain fully immersed in a virtual world even while traversing public…

Spherical video was briefly popularized during the heyday of mobile-friendly VR (Daydream and Samsung's Gear VR etc.), and as with phone-based VR, the technology soon hit a plateau with consumers. Wrangling 360 files was hard, viewing them in any meaningful w…

Nearly 70% of Americans play some type of video game each day. And, with the growth of live streaming, mobile gaming, AR, and VR, this number could get even bigger. While Twitch.tv, the leading live-streaming platform, hosts millions of users that air video…

Amid a slew of updated hardware, Clips has gone missing from Googles online store. Odds are you probably dont remember what Clips is. If you do, odds are youre not surprised by this turn of events. Weve reached out to company to confirm whether this is, ind…

Oculus Guardian tracking follows your movements and allows you move around in games, but there are times that you'd want to turn it off. Guardian tracking requires light, so if it's running you can't use your headset in the dark. It also doesn't work well whe…

Alongside all of Googles new hardware and software announcements yesterday, there was another development that a lot of people might have missed: Googles Daydream VR headset appears to be going away. The death of Daydream VR has been a long time coming. Aft…

TL;DR: The noise-canceling, bass-boosting PlayStation 4 Gold wireless headset was made for gamers, by gamers pick a pair up on Amazon and get $29 off the final price; just $70.99. If youre playing video games online with friends, or even just playing them so…

Screensavers VR is out this week and will let you explore classic screensavers.  I can't vouch for the "gameplay," but I learned I am powerfully nostalgic for 3D Pipes:Plunge your body into five screensavers inspired by the classics, and experience their evol…

Googles senior VP of hardware, Rick Osterloh, talked about sustainability on the stage last night at the Pixel event. While its nice to see the company talking about making their products green, it seems to be finding it hard to sustain projects they start. …