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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to set foot on the red planet? Of course you have.  Today’s your lucky day: A new 360° video brings viewers along for some high-flying Martian action, giving a bumpy glimpse of what it would look like if one were to land on Mars. In the...

Xiaomi has a new low-cost virtual reality headset, and this one comes with a controller and some content you can play with.  SEE ALSO: Hands on with Daydream View, Google’s first virtual reality headset On the sidelines of curvy Mi Note 2 announcement, the Chinese company today also unveiled the Mi VR. The headset looks...

LOS ANGELES — Avenged Sevenfold is going 360-fold. Universal Music Group will debut a new virtual reality platform this week with the heavy metal juggernaut, whose Thursday night concert — from a still-undisclosed location in Los Angeles — will be live-streamed on the global platform we shall henceforth call VRTGO. Guests at the show will...

The Sarotis Project explores how people interact with the world around them using an experimental prosthesis that can sense its surroundings.  Read more… More about Mashable Video, Technlogy, 3d, Sensory Perception, and Virtual Reality Source: These skin-like robots could amplify our senses in the future

Eagle Flight is the first virtual reality game to leave me breathless. Ubisoft’s debut VR game puts you behind the eyes of a soaring eagle in a tattered post-apocalyptic Paris. Nature has reclaimed the city, giving you the freedom to explore, defend your territory from other winged threats and fly through carefully arranged sets of...

Not everyone is convinced that virtual reality is the future, but at least one beloved institution, The Simpsons, has hopped onto the VR train.  SEE ALSO: ‘Mr. Robot’ to debut VR short film on iOS, Oculus, HTC Vive In celebration of the series’ 600th episode, the show decided to offer its opening couch scene in...

There are several subtle but very compelling hints that Apple may be planning to get into the VR space, and may have already assembled a secret team that is working on Apple-branded VR. Apple are famously tight-lipped about future projects, but during a recent earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about VR specifically....

2016, as every VR evangelist will tell you, is the Year Of VR. After all, we know with certainty that the Rift, Vive and PlayStation VR are all landing this year. But can we really be sure 2016 is going to be ‘The’ year? When Rift pre-orders went live on January 6th, we also found...

As the curtain drops on CES International 2016, there is one clear and very obvious takeaway. Forget self-driving cars and 8k curved TV’s; VR is the Next Big Thing. That much was made obvious by the sheer number of HMD manufacturers, software vendors and third-party hardware companies vying for attention on the exhibition floor, as...

The virtual world is now open, and it’s worth the entry fee “This is the future!”             “It’s so real!”                         “Oh my God what just flew past me?”                                     “WOW!”                                                 “Ok, this is the real deal. This is it.”                                                             “Show me something else!”                                                                         “Hey, come look at this!” These are all...