Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

The Samsung Gear VR is an excellent way to enter the world of virtual reality, a strong midpoint between Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift — and there may be a new version coming soon. The Gear VR has ...

Samsung could be readying a VR (Virtual Reality) headset aimed at fitness and gaming. The South Korean tech giant could be going up against the Apple Vision Pro. Interestingly, the patent application ...

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but a free mobile VR headset? Those exist. Meet the FreeHMD, the world’s first free VR HMD from Canadian tech developers Tek Gear. We always knew our ...

Learn how haptic gaming suits, VR haptic gear, and immersive tech usher in a sensory gaming revolution with full-body feedback, boosting VR immersion and realism.

Once upon a time, VR headsets that housed smartphones were all the rage, thanks to the initial push by Google and its adoption by Samsung and VR tech giant Oculus. Those days are long gone, of course, ...

Apple is reportedly thinking about requiring a tethered iPhone or Mac for its cheaper Vision headset. This echoes the Samsung Gear VR headset, which requires users to slide their phone into the device ...

The company has developed a new app for use with the Samsung Gear virtual reality headset called Facebook 360, which lets viewers to discover publicly-shared content. Facebook claims that since ...

At the time of the art form’s humble beginnings in the early ’70s, the most complex of video games involved two white rectangles bouncing a square “ball” back and forth. Todya, we have games so ...

It won't happen for years, but today's highest-tech smartphones eventually will look like primitive slabs of electronics, says Palmer Luckey of Facebook's virtual reality division. Stephen Shankland ...

"We're trying to figure out what works and what doesn;t work [in VR]," said International Cinematographers Guild's Michael Chambliss. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Today’s virtual reality camera ...