Immersion is easily virtual reality’s biggest strength over what you might call flat gaming. When done well, VR can whisk us away to familiar worlds, storybook fantasies, a galaxy far far away, even ...

The last big hurdle to making virtual worlds (nope, not going to call it the other thing) a truly realistic experience is providing tangible feedback to other senses too, like touch. There’s been ...

Convincing the human eye to believe virtual reality objects are real has been achieved through high-end headsets and immersive software experiences, but what about the other senses? Will VR ever be ...

Need a 3D hamburger, cactus, or pepperoni pizza to use in your virtual or augmented reality app? Google's new Poly platform lets you find, view, and download free AR and VR objects and scenes. "With ...

Virtual reality uses who would like to have the ability to touch VR objects and feel surfaces in virtual reality. May be interested to know that the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Emerge is now ...

The team is building advanced hand-tracking technology to enable it to identify precisely where your hand is in a virtual scene, whether you're in contact with a virtual object and how your hand is ...

Facebook is really committed to getting between you and reality, and the gloves are starting to come off — or, rather, on. With its newly announced plans to build out a metaverse, the social network ...

A new VR feedback mechanism can adapt its own real-world shape to mimic what users are encountering in VR. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

A new prototype set of gloves from Meta (formerly Facebook) could open the door for devices that let you feel objects in virtual reality. The gloves were created by Meta's Reality Labs, and they're ...

A new mod has been created for Skyrim VR by nexus memeber FlyingParticle allowing you to interact with objects within the world using gravity gloves, in a similar way to how object interaction works ...