Last month, reports began circulating and claiming that HTC has managed to sell a total of 140,000 Vive virtual reality headsets between April's launch and October. However, it turns out that the actual figure might be more impressive as HTC clarified the situation during a briefing with investors, stating that …

The Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) platform is now supported officially by Steam, which means you can use the alternative headset to play all sorts of games and experiences there. It also gives OSVR its own category, so if you're looking to buy compatible titles, you can search for them alone. The …

The Oculus Rift will soon be able to support streaming games from the Xbox One, in a cinema-mode that puts the user in front of a giant virtual screen. That means the games themselves won't be automatically turned into VR experiences, but you can play them in a variety of …

MANDT VR, the makers of serialised 360 degree video content and part of those pioneering VR sporting coverage, has partnered up with Disney to create some bespoke, 360 degree videos for the Christmas period. Called The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration, the content will be available on ABC and …

Just a few weeks ago, we saw Microsoft make the surprise announcement of Windows 10 Virtual Reality headsets, bringing prices down to just $299, which will widen the VR market quite a bit compared to more expensive options like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. To go with the lower …

Although Augmented Reality isn't a technology that's particularly widespread just yet, it is gradually seeping into the real world. One area where it's starting to make a big impact is in children's books, where augmented reality visuals can be shown through a smartphone to bring the novels to life. Good …

HTC has found another disciple for the glory of virtual reality in the form of Korean firm NEXPERIENCE. Known for building and developing projection-based golf simulators, NEXPERIENCE has partnered with HTC to help build new experience stations in Korea, as well as popularising what it calls “VR culture,” throughout the …

Augmented reality has a lot of potential to help us learn new skills, experience new entertainment and even shop. The problem with the latter though is it often requires the use of a third party applications; not with Augment for Retailers though. The AR SDK makes it possible to natively …

As much as I love virtual reality, there aren't that many must-play VR experiences just yet. Sure there are hundreds of apps and games and many really cool ones, but Google Earth VR is one of the first that you feel the need to show everyone. Freely available on Steam, …

If you've ever wanted the real racing car experience, then you may want to keep an eye on the Overclockers UK Racing Series, the company's first virtual reality contest that will end in the winner getting the chance to drive a real, non-virtual car around at the Bedford Autodrome Circuit. …

If you're building a game with motion controllers in mind and want to make it work well with Oculus hardware just as much as the HTC Vive, then it's worth getting in touch with Oculus directly. It's announced an expansion of its developer-kit program, which gives out Touch controllers to …

The U.S. Navy is facing off against German virtual reality developer, Bitmanagement, over what the latter claims is a huge instance of software piracy. The Navy has admitted that it installed software without paying, but claims it had permission, setting the stage for one of the biggest commercial piracy suits …

As much as roomscale tracking in virtual reality has opened up many doors in terms of the types of games we can play, the difficulty presented by restrictions in real world space is very much apparent in many contemporary releases. IronWolf VR looks to fix that with some unique locomotion …

The developers of virtual reality's first drunken bar room brawl simulator, Drunkn Bar Fight, have said the game will be “available when we're sober,” according to the game's Early Access Steam page. It also depicts some of the in-game action, which involves punches, kicks, drinking and the classic throwing of …

Once again the HTC Vive looks set to steal the thunder of the Oculus Rift. With the latter headset's impending Touch release just a few weeks away, HTC has announced an upgrade kit for the Vive headset that makes it completely wireless. The kit will purportedly cost buyers around $220 …

Bringing the characters in childrens' favourite stories to life is normally the job of an imaginative and descriptive parent, but TinyMe offers a more technological alternative. Leveraging augmented reality and personalised printing, the developers of The Amazing Alphabet offer a book to kids that caters directly to them, while teaching …

At Oculus Connect this year, the company announced that it would be lowering the barrier to entry for virtual reality by implementing a technique called Asynchronous Spacewarp. This new technique extrapolates frames and lets VR titles render at 45Hz instead of 90Hz, while still pushing 90 frames per second through …

Eye tracking is something that hasn't been implemented in many games, but it could be common place when the next generation of virtual reality headsets rolls around. When we chatted to Tobii president of business development, Oscar Werner, he suggested that most VR systems would incorporate eye tracking in the future. …

If you were looking to grab yourself a little pre-Christmas present, or want something to really wow the in-laws with when they all pile into your home in a few weeks' time, the HTC Vive is a little more affordable now. Yes its price went up when the pound tanked, …

It's rare that video game adaptations of famous movies are that good, but I feel like John Wick was similar enough to a shooter that it could translate rather well – especially in VR. Payday developer Starbreeze is currently working on a full length John Wick VR game, called Eye …

Even though the Oculus Touch controllers don't release for a few more weeks, the Revive injector drivers which make it possible to play Oculus ‘exclusive' games on the HTC Vive, already supports them. That means that when Touch does debut, many of the games that come with it should work …

If you want to let members of the public try out Steam VR games and experiences using your hardware, you need Valve's free commercial license to do so. However that limits you to only a few pieces of software for people to play. To expand that further, you need paid …

Earlier this year we did our best to test how some of the world's best graphics cards stand up to virtual reality. All we had at the time was Steam's simple VR benchmark, but it gave us a decent enough baseline to work with. Now though Futuremark has officially released …

We're big fans of LAN parties here at KitGuru, that's why you'll find us at most of the Insomnia events, playing Age of Empires II, Don't Starve Together or The Ship into the early hours of the morning. VR however offers the potential for much more regular get together and …

At E3 earlier this year, Microsoft officially announced that it would be coming out with a more powerful console in 2017, currently known as Project Scorpio. One of the big goals for this device is to support “high-fidelity VR”, but it seems that support may take some time to arrive …

Hopping on to the virtual reality bandwagon isn't cheap. Not only do you need to shell out around £800 for the headset and make sure your gaming PC is up to scratch, but the recent downturn in the pound's value against the dollar hasn't helped things. To ease that blow to …

While Microsoft has been mostly pushing Augmented Reality this year with the Hololens, earlier this month the company revealed that it will also be jumping into the virtual reality market. Microsoft has partnered up with the likes of Asus, Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo to bring out a line of …

Much like you can order movies and ‘adult' content in hotel rooms, you'll soon be able to pay to play around with an HTC Vive virtual reality headset too. In a landmark deal, HTC has struck up a relationship with the Intercontinental Hotels Group, which represents several thousand hotels around …

Sony is taking quite the gamble with the launch of the PlayStationVR but it seems that the new console-focussed headset is already off to a great start over in the US. Not only have reviews for the headset been fairly positive overall but US retailer, GameStop, has said that the …

As excited as people were for the launches of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift this year, many found themselves put off by the higher than expected pricing. Since then, we have seen the launches of smartphone dependant VR headsets, but these are much more limited in functionality. However, Microsoft …