The HTC Vive VR is packed not just with features that allow access to virtual reality. The VR suite also comes with a formidable number of peripherals.

Twenty-five years ago, I founded Ono-Sendai, the first tech startup working to develop a consumer virtual reality system. By the time you added up all of the component costs for the graphics…

What if you could look down and see your actual arms and legs inside VR, or look at other real-world people or objects as if you weren't wearing a headset? Imverse's team spent five years building this incredible technology at universities in Switzerland and Spain. Now its real-time mixed reality engine is ready for public demos, debuting this month at Sundance Film Festival.

Robots are taking over a growing number of manufacturing chores, but they remain relatively clumsy and slow to program. A startup called Embodied Intelligence plans to change that with robots that learn through observation, experimentation, and repetition. And they will be trained by human tele-operators wearing virtual-reality goggles. If the startup can achieve some of…

In a significant development for the thriving Pakistan’s technology and startup ecosystem, Ignite National Technology Fund, Company incorporated under

Movie studios, media companies and smart money VCs are all investing heavily into AR/VR. We mapped out the startup landscape.

Numinos Pitch Deck: Immersive tours with virtual reality designed by Emiliya Shender. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.

It’s been a mere seven months since Google announced Cardboard — their playful, smartphone-based VR platform that takes an inexpensive cardboard constructed viewer and transforms your everyday phone into a brand new immersive experience. The reaction was magical and immediate. And as a result, Google has expanded their platform and

When Rothenberg Ventures announced River in December, the VR world responded with gratitude. It was a void that needed filling, an injection of cash and resources to a select group of small VR startups, who are making waves in the space. Said Mike Rothenberg of the initial announcement, “The innovators

Virtual reality is starting to make great strides into daily life with the emergence of many virtual reality startups across virtually every industry, from media and entertainment, to art and education. While early adopters of the technology set up shop in the San Francisco Bay Area, more and more virtual reality manufacturers have started relocating

Virtual reality startups are scrambling to create more immersive ways to experience the tech. Mindride Airflow uses a weightless harness and a wind machine to make you feel like you're soaring.

Virtual-reality startups and investors are hoping Apple’s new headset reignites excitement after early enthusiasm waned

As a surgeon prepares to broadcast a cancer tumor removal, startups are working on a universe of ways to marry virtual reality with health care.

Since 2010, investors have directed over $2 billion into startups operating in the United States’ K-12 educational technology, or ‘edtech,’ market. Chief among these is the incorporation of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and similar technologies into classrooms.

To say Jaron Lanier is a pioneer of the VR industry is a bit of an understatement. His achievements include popularizing the term virtual reality and starting VPL Research, which was among the first startups creating VR hardware back in the ’80s (the company literally created an “EyePhone“). He’s

Virtual reality is making a comeback, said Mandy Rose, Senior Research Fellow at the Bristol Digital Cultures Research Centre, introducing New Media artist Oscar Raby to a packed audience on 24 October at the Pervasive Media Studio. Heralded in the 1980s by Timothy Leary and others as a new form of experiential connectivity, VR's early…

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