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Straight-laced, stiff upper-lipped, very-sensible middle class British High Street retailer John Lewis has got all modern, like, by adding a virtual reality headset to its shelves. It’s called the Freefly VR. It costs 49.95 and can be found on the fifth level of the store’s flagship Oxford Street outlet. The …
Read More »Why new VC firm Presence Capital is focused on virtual reality start-ups
$10m inaugural funding will be investing in VR and AR projects that could 'transform the world'
Read More »Valve’s HTC Vive VR won’t hit shelves until 2016
The virtual reality revolution has been delayed. With both PlayStation VR (formerly known as Project Morpheus) and Oculus Rift due out in the first half of 2016, Valve’s HTC-made Vive headset stood as the only of the big players scheduled for a limited release in 2015. With just days left …
Read More »7,000 extra HTC Vive dev kits to be released in early 2016
Commercial launch for virtual reality hardware set for April
Read More »Ubisoft Fun House’s Eagle Flight VR demo is now a full game
Fun House, the Ubisoft development arm founded to create more quirky titles, has revealed its first full game. Led by Child of Light creative director PatrickPlourde, Fun House was created as a spin-off of Ubisoft Montreal earlier this year in August and initially revealed Eagle’s Flight, an air-bound tech demo …
Read More »Ace Combat 7 to take flight in PlayStation VR
Latest in 23-year-old franchise is exclusive to PS4
Read More »Ubisoft Fun House’s Eagle Flight VR prototype becomes a fully-feathered release
Title features VR 'technology breakthrough' to combat motion sickness
Read More »Halo composer and designer announce debut VR title Golem
Title will be exclusive to PlayStation VR
Read More »Rock Band is coming to the Oculus Rift
VR adaptation adopts a first-person view similar to that of rival Guitar Hero Live
Read More »Alex McDowell to keynote first Vision VR/AR Summit
Production designer behind Watchmen, Man of Steel and Minority Report to lead new conference in February
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