How Rothenberg Ventures got ahead of the VR investing craze
With virtual reality now seemingly everywhere, it’s easy to think that the technology came out of nowhere. Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift two years ago...
Oculus VR’s Rift headset gets Roblox’s massive player-created gaming universe
Virtual reality is getting a theoretically limitless number of new games thanks to one of internet’s largest creative communities. Roblox debuts on Oculus Rift today,...
Outlyer Technologies’ Advrtas brings ads to virtual reality
Virtual reality is the next frontier for … advertising. Outlyer Technologies is announcing its Advrtas platform today, which enables the creation of interactive ads...
Naughty America tries to get VR porn just right
Believe it or not, the porn industry is having a bit of a hard time with virtual reality. VR is all about immersing you...
Facebook wants to make social VR indistinguishable from real life
Facebook is conducting a lot of research into how to capture social interaction in virtual reality so that it will seem real. In addition...
Microsoft on causing Oculus Rift delays: ‘This is false’
If you preordered the Oculus Rift headset, you might still be waiting for it — but that’s not because of the Xbox One controller....
Japan’s Gree creates a $12M virtual reality investment fund
Japanese developer Gree makes about billion dollars a year in revenue for mobile games. But the company is signaling a shift today as it is creating...
Virtual reality justifies those ludicrous 17-inch ‘portable desktops’
Gaming laptops are a consumer-electronics category that don’t make a whole lot of sense anymore. They’re expensive, bulky, and hot as hell. That’s why...
This flying saucer is Facebook’s virtual reality 360-degree camera
Facebook has created a 360-degree camera to capture virtual reality imagery from its Oculus Rift headset. The Facebook Surround 360 camera solves a problem that...
Zuckerberg: Future VR and AR gadgets will look like ordinary glasses
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that virtual reality and augmented reality of the future will be accessible by a powerful gadget that looks...