Every time a new technology is introduced two things happen: people try to describe it with existing terminology and they will try to use it for existing things. It’s an important phenomenon, because it helps the general public to understand new technology and lowers the barrier to start using it. The downside is that it …

Starship, a Liverpool-based digital entertainment studio, has today released vTime on the Gear VR store, the mobile platform’s latest social VR app. I got a chance to check out vTime’s alpha and sat down with Paul Hollywood, the studios product development director, to find out more. vTime is essentially organized like a social network, allowing you to search other users …

A lot happened in virtual reality this year; here are the key things to remember.

OK, it doesn’t exist just yet, but one group called “Pinball Labs” has a new Kickstarter to bring back the feels you felt when you entered an arcade with tons of pinball games. There’s nothing like the sounds and visuals of old pinball machines (I love Addams Family) and it could become a…reality once again […]

VR is no longer a Hollywood fantasy.

It’s that time of the year again. Decorations everywhere, people shopping and making travel arrangements. Remember the old days when your dad used his Olympus camera to capture the visit to Santa? And then years later he brings out Sony’s first DV camcorder to film the Christmas dinner? Now, what...

Survios, one of the earliest companies to spin up in this new era of VR, is today debuting gameplay from a new VR title that’s coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Inside, players battle robots in an “environment rich with interactive and destructible objects.” Having been in stealth for some time now following …

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner. As has been the case ever since my inaugural trip in 2007, there's always one product or trend that takes center stage. 2016 is widely expected to be the year…

The latest technology news and reviews, covering computing, home entertainment systems, gadgets and more

Facebook and Sony will both launch high-end VR headsets next year. Which company has the bigger runway for growth?

These, among a few more others, are the reasons why virtual reality is the future of technology.

Pantomime With Apple’s Revolutionary New ARKit Real-time shared Augmented Reality is here with Pantomime Creatures AR. Pantomime’s Creatures AR introduces a new kind of Augmented Reality that immerses iPads and iPhones in a real-time 3D world and lets you capture creatures wherever you are. You can toss them food, watch them eat and grow, and shove them with …

Using a virtual-reality headset is just one way of looking at an animated digital world. A new startup called Pantomime has come up with another method — without the need to wear goggles. The new technology is very innovative, and it’s one more offering that could help fulfill the promise of virtual reality and augmented reality, which …

Virtual Reality bike VirZOOM aims to transform cycling on a static bike into an amazing experience.

At Samsung’s 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, took to the stage during the second day keynote to talk VR. Mayoss shared some of the initial work that DreamWorks has done with virtual reality, including five insights for new VR developers. Mayoss, who worked previously with …

CRYENGINE is Crytek's powerful game development platform, available with full source code & features.

Describing Google Cardboard and the Oculus Rift in the same terms isn't just wrong, it's dangerous.

Tekken in virtual reality will likely be more about appreciating -- rather than beating up -- the game's roster

NASA researchers are using Virtual Reality (VR) to help human operators to practice controlling a humanoid helper outside Earth's atmosphere

Fusion, MIT, and NASA are collaborating on a VR experience that will place users on Mars long before real astronauts reach the Red Planet in the 2030s.

HTC's former CEO is still staying with the beleaguered phone company, but he's taking on another role at another firm: executive director for Digital Domain. It's the visual effects company behind I...

The problems facing the vfx industry are serious and complex, we present a new model for discussion based on the work of some very serious players.

VFX artists are middle class workers who are losing their livelihoods to foreign tax subsidies

In 2011-12, the VFX company Rhythm & Hues created the astounding effects for Ang Lee's gorgeous movie The Life of Pi. Then they went bankrupt, fired their staff, and went out of business. Two weeks later they won an Oscar. The new documentary Life After Pi shows how this insanity was made possible.

Technicolor and its family of VFX brands provides premiere visual effects services and innovations tailored to the creative and storytelling needs of each project.

These nine tech startups, many of which you may have never heard of, help keep the Internet running smoothly.