The first wave of VR headsets flopped, but soon the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR will go on sale – and they’re going to be much, much better
Oculus Rift has linked up with Microsoft as it prepares to bring VR to the home, and developers’ enthusiasm appears undiminished by past disappointments
Facebook subsidiary reveals Microsoft partnership and new hand-tracking controllers for its Oculus Rift headset’s 2016 debut
• As it happened: Oculus’ Step into the Rift event
Facebook buys Surreal Vision, founded by three Imperial College students, to bolster Oculus’s virtual reality development
Twenty years ago the man who pioneered commercial VR saw his market shrink to zero. Now he’s excited again – and so are Microsoft, Google and Facebook …
Theoretical attack becomes real as criminals begin using jammers to block remote locking car keys
After months of rumours that the first commercial model of Facebook’s VR headset would slip beyond 2015, company confirms the news
Standalone device will go head-to-head with Facebook’s $2bn VR headset by the end of 2015, when both will have released commercial editions
