IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, today launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Before the service launched today, lone players could control the ship's other posts—Engineering, Tactical, Helm—by clicking...

Valve has lifted the veil somewhat on its Knuckles controllers, first revealed as a prototype last October at the company's annual Steam Dev Days conference. In a blog post today, Valve showed off some specs of the Knuckles dev kit...

Korea-based TEGway is developing ThermoReal, a thermoelectric array which can generate heat and cold with impressively low latency. The flexible nature of ThermoReal could make it suitable for integration into VR controllers, gloves, and more. I've tried a few different...

Dungeon Chess, described as "the first official Dungeons & Dragons-themed Gear VR Game", is now available on both Samsung’s mobile VR platform and the Oculus Rift. The title combines classic chess gameplay with iconic D&D creature designs and suitably...

Spherical YouTube videos with over 1,000 views now include ‘360° Heatmaps’ within the Analytics section of the Creator Studio. The new feature provides a visual representation of low to high attention areas of the video, helping to inform content...

HBO's show Silicon Valley entertains with tales of the pervasive startup culture of California's San Francisco Bay Area. While virtual reality has graced the show previously, season four is bringing it closer to the fore, with the show's main characters becoming...

Valve has added the first wave of SteamVR Collectibles to SteamVR Home, unlockable rewards which can be used to decorate your virtual Home space or modify your avatar. This new feature further expands the rich customisation and interactivity found...

Oculus premiered about a dozen games ahead of GDC this year, and one that stood out to me was Mage's Tale  for its distinct art style and passion in using VR to fulfill childhood fantasies of becoming a spell-casting magician....

Finland-based Varjo has announced a new display technology for AR and VR which the company is calling "the first human eye-resolution VR/AR/XR immersive display." Varjo claims an "effective resolution" that's nearly 70 times greater than the Rift and Vive. We've...

My favorite narrative VR piece that I've seen so far this year is Rose Colored by Adam Cosco that premiered at VRLA. It's a science fiction morality tale that is asking us to look at a potential future of...