Getty Images has launched a new business that it hopes will provide its users with an even richer visual experience as it dives deeper into the creation and distribution of virtual reality content.

Because of the nature of how it's rendered in VR in order to blend with the virtual world, this stream doesn't quite cut it, and so it has to make do with a less-than-HD source feed.

Virtual reality was supposed to transform entertainment. At least, that was the expectation roughly a decade ago with the arrival of the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality (VR) headset from ...

Unfortunately no information has been released by Valve or leaked as to whether we will ever see a consumer version of the virtual reality headset arriving in stores worldwide. Also at the current ...

Japan’s government and NHK are bullish about giving Japan a broadcast system that supports ultra-sharp 8K — 16 times the resolution of HD — in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Oculus VR is kicking off E3 with an upgrade to its virtual reality console, the Rift. By simply upgrading its optics from one off-the-shelf cellphone display to another, the company has upgraded ...

Instead, the UCSD researchers make use of a consumer Samsung 3D HDTV that uses active-shutter 3D technology to bounce images off the mirror (which a passive-3D solution cannot do).

For now, virtual reality is still mostly associated with video games. But computer chips that process video images are getting better and better at fooling our minds and could soon be able to ...

POWERPOINT presentations are about to get a sprinkle of fairy dust. A hand-held projector can now create virtual characters and objects that interact with the real world. The device – called ...