Why this virtual reality startup picked Seattle over San Francisco for its new HQ Shawn Whiting and Hayden Lee were set to move to San Francisco earlier this summer as they prepared to accelerate development… Read More
Burning Man to host first-ever Virtual Reality Camp, featuring giant Godzilla and motion-capture suits Every year, thousands of people travel to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to celebrate creativity and escape reality. This year… Read More
Meet Endeavor One: Bungie vets ditch big studio for new virtual reality gaming startup After 12 years designing warthogs and battle rifles for Bungie’s Halo series, former art lead Tom Doyle quit his job… Read More
Geek on the Street: What happened when we gave people a virtual reality headset for the first time What happens when people try new virtual reality technology for the first time? GeekWire hit the streets in Seattle to find… Read More
I watched live golf with a virtual reality headset and it was amazing UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASH. — It was the first round of the 115th U.S. Open and I was standing at the… Read More
Lucasfilm launches new lab to bring virtual reality to ‘Star Wars’ Yes! Like peanut butter and chocolate, Lucasfilm and virtual reality needed to come together as one. Variety reports today that… Read More
Oculus inks big lease in Seattle’s stadium district Oculus VR, the virtual reality headset maker that Facebook purchased for $2 billion last year, has inked a lease for… Read More
High-powered angel investors sink $2M in new virtual reality startup A group of high-profile angel investors are betting big on new virtual reality startup Envelop VR. The Bellevue company today… Read More
Oculus: Consumer version of Rift headset will debut early next year At long last, Oculus this morning announced a timeframe for the consumer version of its Rift virtual reality headset, saying… Read More
Valve opens applications for virtual reality developer kits Developers who want to get early access to Valve’s virtual reality headset can now apply for a free development kit… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: The Apple Watch hype and the future of virtual reality This week on the GeekWire radio show we go deep on the topic of virtual reality — hearing why Todd… Read More
Beyond video games: How virtual reality is transforming real estate Buying a condo or leasing a new office space can be a giant and costly decision — and it’s all the more difficult when… Read More
Sony’s Project Morpheus virtual reality headgear will be coming in the first half of next year SAN FRANCISCO – It has been a year since Sony first unveiled its Project Morpheus virtual reality headset at the… Read More
Valve will show off new VR gear and revamped ‘Steam Machines’ next week Valve Software, the Bellevue-based game developer and operator of the Steam video game marketplace, revealed today that it will be… Read More
Envelop VR raising cash for productivity and enterprise virtual reality software platform Bob Berry is confident about two things: The virtual reality industry is about to take off, and Seattle will be an… Read More
Oculus debuts short ‘Lost’ at Sundance, bringing virtual reality to film It doesn’t seem that long ago that all the rage in movies was 3D. Forget that: Oculus is making headlines… Read More
Oculus exec: There’s a huge opportunity for a startup to create the Uber of virtual reality Some scratched their heads (or maybe we should say headsets) last year when Facebook announced its acquisition of virtual reality… Read More
All things CES: The mega electronics show’s history in a glance If you’re getting ready for Vegas, this will be fun. Online event group EventUp sent a handy infographic taking a… Read More
Virtual reality Macs? Apple hiring engineers familiar with Oculus, Leap Motion Apple may be eyeing a move into the virtual reality space…or something. The company has posted a handful of job… Read More
New Oculus prototype pushes virtual reality beyond gaming, with help from Seattle team Attendees at the Oculus Connect developer conference this weekend got a glimpse of the future of the company’s virtual reality… Read More
A holodeck at home: Developers take Oculus wireless for a breathtaking virtual reality experience I was standing on an elevated platform — high enough from the ground that my brain was instinctively telling me to… Read More
Google enters the VR market with … a cardboard box? Developers who attended the Google I/O conference in San Francisco today were given two things to thank them for their… Read More
Photos: Valve is still working on a virtual reality headset Valve still appears to be interested in developing its own virtual reality headset. At a VR meet-up in Boston this weekend,… Read More
Facebook buys virtual reality pioneer Oculus for $2 billion After spending $19 billion on messaging service WhatsApp last month, it would seem reasonable for Facebook to take a break… Read More
Oculus VR says next-gen dev kit brings better video, position tracking Virtual reality company Oculus VR announced today that it’s releasing a new and updated version of its development kit for… Read More
Virtual reality game for stroke patients wins UW competition Four University of Washington students who developed a virtual reality game that provides real-time feedback for patients undergoing stroke therapy came… Read More
Oculus CEO: Gamers will be ‘blown away’ by Rift virtual reality, with help from Valve MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – A partnership with one of the Seattle region’s major players in gaming will be a key… Read More
New video technology gives football fans a ‘personalized camera on the field’ Virtual reality experts at Washington State University are allowing fans to essentially become their own live sporting event producers with… Read More
Geek of the Week: Vertafore’s Eric Danas, from petrophysics to user-experience design Eric Danas has worked for more than 15 years in the field of user-experience design — currently working with Vertafore, a… Read More
Virtual reality visionary Jaron Lanier on his Microsoft gig: Kinect is ‘beautiful, exciting’ https://youtu.be/-Vc9GMGZurY A while back I got a chance to sit in on a session with Jaron Lanier, the guy credited… Read More
