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
Sony, Microsoft and Valve all have immersive technologies to push this year, but are the big games publishers aboard the VR express?
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
Smartphones were once the major disruptive force in the games industry, but now Steam Machines and immersive entertainment technologies are set to stir things up again
Tech giant is bringing virtual reality to the masses with a simple device that you make out of cardboard
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 …
After months of rumours that the first commercial model of Facebook’s VR headset would slip beyond 2015, company confirms the news
Everyone envisions that virtual reality will be about isolating yourself from the real world, but that’s not exactly what Sony has in mind
