A recent survey questioned 595 VR and AR professionals about their business growth in the consumer and enterprise markets. It shows that 24 percent of the respondents report strong sales in the enterprise market while only 18 percent show strong sales in the consumer market.

Google wants anyone to be able to create a virtual tour -- Google Tour Creator is an online program for creating virtual tours with multiple scenes. Anyone can use the program, using new images (like images from the Ricoh Theta V), Street View photos or, now, images shot in the Cardboard Camera app.

If sending messages wasn't already enough with Facebook Messenger, users can now challenge friends to multiplayer augmented reality games in video chat. With the new feature, currently rolling out, you can play with up to six people at a time from anywhere in the world.

A company called IrisVision has created a smartphone-based VR system that can help people with severe macular degeneration to see better. While it doesn’t actually cure blindness, it does enable users with this vision disorder to carry out tasks they would otherwise find impossible.

If you own a compatible smartphone, then the Google Daydream View is one of the best virtual reality headsets that money can buy. If you've been looking to dip your toes into the world of VR, you're in luck: Verizon has slashed the price of the headset down to just $30.

Do you want to share your life with a virtual character? If so, then your dream is closer to reality due to the impending release of Gatebox. Like Alexa, it will control your smart home; but the character that lives inside the Gatebox has the ability to recognize, interact, and even celebrate with you.

The user interface for Magic Leap's augmented reality operating system will be heavily customizable and come in two specific guises: 2D and 3D. Each will let you choose how they're displayed, but where one will float, the other will conform to the environment around it, allowing for much more intuitive interaction.

Itching to create an augmented reality object? Adobe will soon have software to help. Adobe recently teased Project Aero, an upcoming software that helps design AR objects, including support for Apple's ARKit. The teaser comes with an art exhibit focused on immersive content in San Francisco.

What’s great about VR is that you can get the full building experience in Minecraft given the blocky world consumes your entire view. The drawback is that you don’t have visual access to the real world without lifting the headset or completely removing the device altogether. Microsoft has a fix.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is already an incredibly immersive game, and it will become even more so when it comes to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift July 31. The VR version will be free for those who own the game on Steam, and you'll be able to play the complete Hellblade experience in virtual reality.

In New York City? For the next year, Samsung will let you simulate walking on the moon, thanks to the Gear VR, Galaxy S9 Plus, and a complicated harness system that was developed in partnership with NASA. It's all to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 2019.

An amusement park in Germany unveiled the world's first waterslide that requires riders to wear a virtual reality headset. The results sound unusual, but also kind of awesome at the same time. Here's what went into making this particular waterlogged VR dream a reality.

VirtualLink wants to simplify the virtual reality experience by replacing all the cables -- USB, HDMI, and power -- needed to connect a VR headset to a PC today with a single USB-C cable. This will help reduce friction in VR adoption and could speed up setup times for those looking to get started with a new headset.

In new VR game Bring to Light, players have the option of strapping on a heart rate monitor to help personalize the game’s fear factor. Get too comfortable with the experience, and the game’s A.I. will know to ramp up the terror. Because who wants a relaxing game experience, right?

Compared with today's VR headsets, Nintendo’s ill-fated, red-tinted head-mounted Virtual Boy display now looks massively dated. However, thanks to modern Oculus Rift headsets, you can now relive it -- courtesy of an emulator that makes you believe it's 1995 all over again.

AT&T said it signed a deal to be the exclusive wireless distributor of Magic Leap’s products in the United States. First up to bat will be the Magic Leap One Creator Edition headset that will be sold in select stores in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco this summer.

Unnamed sources claim that Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce GTX 1180 add-in graphics card for desktops will likely include a proprietary connector for virtual reality headsets to support 120Hz refresh rates over a single cable. This port will likely be based on the current HDMI 2.1 specification.

A YouTube user and Unreal Engine 4 VR developer has managed to create the entire Zelda: Ocarina of Time Ganondorf fight in virtual reality, and the results have us hoping for a full VR remake. The same user also created the final Ganon fight in virtual reality, and it's just as impressive.

Not so sure exactly what destination to head to next? Kayak VR is a new Google Daydream app designed to help travelers scope out a new destination ahead of time and pre-plan trips. The app includes travel tips and an audio tour along with a 360 view of hotspots at the destination.

If you’re the proud new owner of an Oculus Go and want to see everything you can do with it, you’ve now got another thing you can use it for with the arrival of Oculus TV, which will let you watch Netflix, Hulu, MLB Live games and a whole lot more on a virtual big screen TV.

Valve has released a new demo called Moondust to show off the capabilities of its knuckle VR controllers and give developers a chance to play around with its new capabilities. They can squish, track fingers, and allow navigation via a thumbstick input, all while sporting better ergonomics and battery life.

Xbox One fans may have been hoping to play virtual reality games on the console in the future, but Microsoft currently has no plans to bring any sort of VR or AR technology to its console. The PlayStation 4's PSVR remains the only virtual reality device compatible with home consoles this generation.

The HP Windows Mixed Reality headset turns your PC desktop into a set of interactive holograms and does double duty as a full-featured VR device. For a limited time, the new HP Windows Mixed reality headset bundle is just $199.

Oculus' VP of Content Jason Rubin claims that a "significant percentage" of Oculus Rift headset owners would rather sit down to enjoy virtual reality rather than take advantage of room-scale motion detection. He made this revelation to Insomniac founder and CEO Ted Price at E3 2018 last week.

The next version of Microsoft's HoloLens headset for augmented reality will supposedly feature Qualcomm's new Snapdragon XR1 processor. The rumor arrives by way of an anonymous source who claims the second-generation headset packing the XR1 chip will make an appearance in January 2019.

The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is launching a VR tour of the Anne Frank House, where the famous diarist and her family hid from the Nazis during World War II. The launch of the virtual reality tour was timed to coincide with what would have been Anne’s 89th birthday.

3D, 360, AI, HDR, RAW -- the Detu Max appears to cram quite a few features inside an eight-lens 360 camera. The pro-focused camera uses artificial intelligence to allow for object tracking and high-resolution stitches. The Detu Max is funding on Kickstarter, and reached the campaign goal in ten minutes.

Microsoft's hardware plans for the coming year, and a bit beyond, have reportedly leaked according to a report from Thurott and ZDNet. So what could we see announced this year? Some exciting hardware releases like the HoloLens 2, and maybe a cheaper Surface Pro.

Researchers from the University of Washington created a way to get you closer to your favorite sports action: An algorithm which can turn 2D live-action televised soccer into a 3D augmented reality re-creation. Here's how it works, and how they've demonstrated it so far.

Learn more about the planet we live on with AstroReality's Earth -- a physical 3D globe combined with an AR/A.I. application featuring technology that allows you to explore our past, present, and future on Earth. With the globe in your hands you can speak to Gaea -- an immersive smart-voice technology.

Augmented reality may not be quite ready for mainstream use just yet, but that doesn't mean it's not being used for important things altogether. RealWear has launched an intrinsically-safe AR headset for industrial use, which could benefit service workers.

By exploiting an involuntary eye movement that humans use to orient themselves in physical space, VR researchers from Stony Brook University, Nvidia and Adobe have found a way to make infinite walking possible in virtual reality. It sounds impossible, but here's how it works.

Apple is hiring an engineer to design user interfaces for AR experiences, suggesting that the iPhone-maker is continuing its work on the development of mixed reality glasses. This person will help "define and deliver the foundation for the next paradigm of user interfaces and entirely new interaction models," Apple said.

Qualcomm introduced the world's first platform dedicated to extended reality (XR) with the launch of its Snapdragon XR1 chip and headset design. XR is an umbrella term used to group virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Vuzix, Pico, Meta, and HTC's Vive are already signed on.