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Canon, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony failed to make waves with their latest camera announcements. For the most part, the manufacturers focused on introducing mini...

When Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that “consumers are choosing experiences over products,” sports fans around the world should have guessed they were in for a treat. And later, when Krzanich announced that Intel would be working with Replay Technologies, every baseball, soccer, basketball, and football lover across the globe was given a special treat.

Gail Barnes brings up 14 prospective applications for virtual reality, after attending the CES technology show in Las Vegas.

Samsung's Gear VR and Google Cardboard may help virtual reality's fastest-moving applications become education.

Rift and HoloLens are making their way into the world, but augmented reality could hold the greater potential.

Your GoPro on a stick suddenly doesn't seem all that.

Jump lets you capture and share VR video, video you can step inside of and feel like you're there.

And it actually looks pretty good. It comes as little surprise that there were so many VR cameras on the CES floor this year, as companies attempt to ride the recent boom in interest around virtual reality technology.

The International Consumer Electronics Show, known universally as CES, will be bigger than ever this year.

Vizio promises richer colors and blacker blacks in high dynamic range with new format

Three high-end virtual reality headsets go on sale later this year. Their uses should extend far beyond gaming.

Researchers believe new immersive technology could lead to isolation, but maybe when social needs are met online, people won't need in-person interaction as much.

Foveated rendering, a technique that mimics human vision, could help catapult virtual reality to the next level, but it is something that to this point hasn’t been achievable with current technology – until now. SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), one of the oldest and largest companies focused on technology that tracks the human eye, is planning to show off foveated rendering at CES next week alongside the newest edition of their technology – a 250Hz eye-tracking kit for HMDs. For those of you who aren’t jumping for joy already, foveated rendering is a big deal for virtual reality because it c...

Follow Royal Ballet dancer Julia Roscoe as she prepares for her role debut as a snowflake in The Nutcracker.

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…

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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 …