Oculus Rift owners need to get Touch — but the motion controllers need more games
Oculus Rift should’ve launched with the Touch. It completes the VR system and gives it input parity with the competitions from HTC and Sony....
Minority Report science advisor builds the most awesome conference room
John Underkoffler was the science advisor for the landmark 2004 film Minority Report, and he designed the gesture-controlled user interface that Tom Cruise used...
The holiday gift guide to the best gaming headsets
You don’t have to get your friends and family another game this holiday. Instead, you can help them hear their favorite games even better....
Oculus Rift can play Xbox One games starting next month
You don’t need to sit on your couch in your living room to play Xbox One games anymore. Now, you can enter virtual realty...
Phantogeist is a first-person shooter that makes AR a social experience
The first-person shooter Phantogeist has debuted as a social augmented reality game on Google Tango. In this game from Chicago-based Trixi Studios, a friendly alien helps...
NBA 2K shoots for VR on November 22
Come on and slam, and welcome to the VR jam. 2K has announced NBA 2KVR Experience, a basketball virtual reality game for PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR. This first sports VR game from the publisher will come out on November 22 for $15.
PlayStation VR’s best-sellers include Batman and Job Simulator
Sony probably isn’t going to reveal sales for its PlayStation VR headset for a while yet, but it did reveal the best-selling VR games...
IMAX’s $50 million fund could buoy the VR ecosystem
Money keeps flooding into the virtual reality ecosystem. Yesterday, the film company IMAX said it was partnering with Acer and Creative Artists Agency to...
Google Daydream View review: A massive step up from Cardboard, but content is lacking
Five weeks ago, Google unveiled Daydream View, a VR headset for its mobile virtual reality platform. The headset goes on sale today, and we...
Tetris, VR, and escapism: Why we play
You have no control. You are a cluster of systems cohabitating a space with the systems of other people and the physical world. The...