Ready for Snap's take on games? Snappables are new Snapchat games that use facial expressions, motion, and touch to control the game. The games can be sent as Snaps to challenge friends, or to invite friends to a virtual dance party. The augmented reality games are located inside the app's camera.

Borrowing from Valve Software's unreleased 'knuckles' controller for VR, Pimax introduced a similar peripheral to be offered with its upcoming 8K VR headset. It will support all five fingers, providing thumb and trigger buttons along with a grip button and two sensors for your ring finger and pinky.

Using high-resolution cameras and 3D imaging, Google has opened up world heritage sites around the world for exploration to anyone with a virtual reality headset. The Open Heritge project is a collaboration with the non-profit foundation CyArk.

In patents filings made public this week, Oculus describes a couple different technologies that could make its virtual reality even more realistic and immersive. The patents describe a couple methods for simulating touch in VR environments, one of which includes a "skin stretch instrument." 

Ready Player One is introducing virtual reality to a whole new audience. Want to know how VR is being used in the world today? Here are 8 eight ways.

AR headsets are expensive, so Los Angeles-based creative director Jean Helfenstein has invented an alternative called Ghost, which boasts a more affordable price tag. Using it, you can take computer multitasking to the next level by creating infinite MacOS windows in virtual space.

Ready to experiment with lights, or pre-visualize that next shoot? Photo Studio AR is an augmented reality app that allows users to place models, lights, and props into any scene using a smartphone camera. The developer, with both Hollywood and Snapchat experience, says the app is for pre-visualizing that next shoot.

Researchers at Switzerland’s École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a smart superhero-style exosuit which allows users to pilot a drone by, essentially, pretending to be one. Let's just hope you're not too shy to use it in public! Here is how it works.

Have your food and eat it too? New augmented reality menus will allow diners to preview a dish using a Snapchat AR Lens before ordering, putting a lifelike model of the food right on the table.

The latest stable version of Google's Chrome browser for desktop now supports the Oculus Rift headset via WebVR. The browser will automatically detect the headset, determine its capabilities, and render web-based virtual reality experiences at a compatible framerate. Firefox supports the Rift too.

The organization behind the JPEG is aiming to create faster streaming without sacrificing quality. JPEG XS is a new file format that offers faster -- but not more -- compression. The file type has the potential to impact a number of technologies, from better live-streams to safer drones.

A recent paper published by researchers from the University of New Haven in Connecticut shows that a vulnerability in OpenGL enables the team to alter the playing space and virtual environment on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. It's just a proof-of-concept but possible nonetheless.

A new SDK for HTC's Vive Pro virtual reality headset effectively turns it into an augmented reality headset also, leveraging its front-facing stereo cameras to provide pass-through video and 3D spatial tracking, making interaction with the real world possible and blending differing reality environments.

Neuroscience researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have found a new way to make people experience sensations in virtual reality -- by recreating the so-called 'rubber hand illusion' using a bit of trusty brain zapping tech. Here is how it all works.

The excellent PSVR headset, one of the best virtual reality headsets on the market, can now be yours for a new low price of $199.

Nothing says 21st-century romance quite like taking your other half on a jetpack flyover of Paris, one of the world’s capital cities for all things love-related. Fortunately, a new VR attraction called FlyView is here to help. Using VR and ground-mounted jetpack units, FlyView promises an aerial tour of Paris.

Leap Motion revealed a new prototype headset combining hand tracking with augmented reality. The open source community will have access next week.

Microsoft's next HoloLens headset is still in the works but according to leaks, it could feature some significant internal changes -- including a new processor from an Intel competitor.

Harry Shum of Microsoft's A.I. and Research group says he's very, very excited about the company's upcoming hardware driven by A.I.

Tired of spending so much time color correcting? AI makes it possible in a few clicks with an Adobe Premiere Pro update.

Say hello to the Vive Pro. Building on the success of the original Vive headset, the Vive Pro promises to deliver unparalleled visuals with an improved fit and finish. Let’s find out if it lives up to those lofty promises.

The VR landscape has changed with the release of the Vive Pro. It's proof that Oculus and HTC need each other -- that is, if VR is to survive and thrive.

NextVR and the NBA have been working together to broadcast dozens of live games inVR. We went behind the scenes to find out how it’s done.

What are you waiting for? Snapchat wants users to compete with friends in a virtual Easter egg hunt on the Snap Map.

How do you get people excited about something that doesn't yet exist? For its new private island collection, Perfect Day, Royal Caribbean turned to augmented reality and virtual reality to give a scope of what the project would look and feel like.

Sony's PlayStation VR headset has received another price drop. For $300, you can get everything you need to play in virtual reality.

Nvidia put a halt on testing autonomous vehicle technology on public roads after Uber's deadly incident in Arizona.

HTC updated its system requirements for the upcoming Vive Pro headset for virtual reality, listing hardware for the best experience possible.

The company behind the original light field camera is shutting down. Lytro announced today that the company is winding down.

Given a treasure trove of downloadable cultural heritage models — from ancient castles to dinosaur skulls and hellenistic statues — digital artists were asked to reimagine these artifacts and remix them with contemporary aesthetics.

Virtual reality brings new life to an old roller coaster with The Great Lego Race, a Mario Kart-style blast through a Lego landscape.

Sotheby's International Realty and its new virtual staging augmented reality app, powered by Rooomy, is called Curate.

The upcoming Oculus Go and "Santa Cruz" mobile VR headsets will have 72Hz refresh rate modes for a more fluid experience.

Following up on an earlier tease, Oculus might be gearing up to make VR even more immersive with a set of VR gloves described in a pair of patent filings made public today.