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The StarVR headset has the highest field-of-view value among VR headsets. Photo: StarVR/Starbreeze Studios The human eye perceives its surroundings with incredible clarity, depth, and a wide field of view. To put in...

Getting up to date with the latest stories as they happen will now get more immersive with VR. With the strategic partnership between Samsung and Reuters, you can get updated with the latest stories from across the...

Oculus Guardian in action. Photo: Oculus Room-scale VR experiences let you move around your virtual world with a sense of location in the room you’re currently in. While HTC Vive has already have this feature built...

What better way to explore and immerse yourself in VR than being able to touch (quite literally) your content in a virtual environment? That’s what gesture-based controllers are made for the ever-growing field of...

The Microsoft Handpose, a fully articulated hand tracking technology. Photo: Microsoft Research Virtual reality promises a lot of futuristic opportunities to everything we do in our lives – in computing, gaming, and...

Gesture-based, motion-controlled virtual reality is slowly but surely becoming the next thing in VR haptics technology. Because of the infinitely fine control offered by such devices, VR interactions are seen to become...

NBA fans know that this year’s Finals was spectacular, thanks to Cleveland Cavaliers’ slam-dunk victory. Yet there’s more to the event, all made possible by the forged team-up of NBA and Oculus with a VR...

The world of VR is so immersive and realistic, thanks to developments in virtual worlds and environments in various VR programs. With all this realism in VR, wouldn’t it be great if you could explore and touch –...

The Sphericam V2 360-degree camera. Photo: Sphericam Consumer VR is really on a roll with the stream of new devices coming to the market. One hot area of consumer-level VR is 360-degree VR photo and video capture....

Los Angeles-based Vrse, known as a VR company specializing in making VR films, is rebranding its name to Within. Along this name change is a $12.56-million funding round from VC (venture capital) firm Andreessen...

Thanks to a new partnership between the ever-secretive Magic Leap and Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB, you can bring the entire Star Wars experience into your living room. This partnership will see Magic Leap’s futuristic yet...

Virtual reality is becoming one of the tech world’s most interesting market niches, and many companies are taking steps to invest in its presumably bright future. Seattle-based Getty Images, one of the world’s...

The worldwide mobile game phenomenon “Fruit Ninja” will now have another home in virtual reality this June, according to its developer Halfbrick Studios. Talk about slicing and crushing fruits to your heart’s...

This year, Zero Latency is embarking on another milestone in its free-roaming virtual reality experiences. As its first venture outside Australia, the Melbourne-based VR company is now set to bring its free-roam...

Augmented reality (AR) tech is now taking a step closer to becoming a mainstream piece of technology, thanks to Microsoft’s announcement that Windows Holographic will be made open to third-party developers and its...

4K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate on mobile virtual reality? Thanks to a slew of new mobile processors from chip maker ARM, you can expect mobile VR to have these specs on VR performance – beginning in 2017. A new...

Both VR and AR are set to change the way we interact with and consume our digital content. In the process, legacy ways of interaction are also about to change as well. With gesture-based interactions in virtual reality...

A lot of VR’s potential could be tapped in the mobile VR niche, but its hardware limitations are barring some of this potential to be realized. Motion tracking, for example, can only be found built into some of the...