Virtual reality may be the hot thing in technology today, thanks to the likes of Oculus Rift and Magic Leap, but investors will have to wait a long time before they get a payoff.

Hollywood is ramping up on VR in the months before Oculus and other hardware hits the market.

There is no VR revolution without an affordable way for people to experience presence so they can travel to other worlds. That’s what venture firm Andreessen-Horowitz was betting on when they led a $75 million round of investment in Oculus in December 2013. The bet paid off in spectacular fashion just a few months later when Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus for $2.1 billion. Before that bet, though, Oculus had to figure out how to keep people from getting sick in VR. The startup raised $16 million in June that year to spur hiring and development of the Rift to solve that problem. And with the ...

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It's sometimes hard to remember how far virtual reality has come in recent years. Not just in terms of technical achievement (though that's impressive), but also mainstream awareness. The idea of...

For the first time, a virtual reality movie has won an Emmy award, as hardware such as the Oculus Rift and HTC's Vive comes closer to the commercial market. Sleepy Hollow, a short virtual reality...

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The orchestra is launching a five-week tour, called VAN Beethoven, to bring concerts to the people via virtual reality.

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Google, Samsung, and Facebook have all invested in VR. Now they need help selling it to the public. Enter Hollywood.

The Palo Alto-based startup plans to make the first camera systems available in August at its soon-to-be-opened Jaunt Studios in L.A.

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(Credit: IMAX Corporation) Put rats in an IMAX-like surround virtual world limited to vision only, and the neurons in their hippocampi* seem to fire