Training autonomous drones to fly around complex indoor environments inevitably means crashes, not to mention a constant cycle of repair and replacement. To remedy this, MIT engineers created a VR ...

Every VR demo on a PC I've seen begins with someone apologizing for the tether. At least with hosted demos, there is someone to manage the cord. Once you set up your own system, you're left to trip ...

Smartphone-based virtual reality headsets are great and all, but for the best games and experiences you need a dedicated facehugger tethered to a powerful PC like it's a diver's lifeline. Wireless ...

Play Labs, a summer accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced its first batch of 13 startups that are developing augmented reality and virtual reality technology. The ...

One of the big blocks to a fully immersive virtual reality experience with PSVR, Oculus, or Vive is that they have to be tethered by cables to work. As impressive and breathtaking as today's VR games ...

Wireless VR is the dream, and thanks to the boffins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it may soon become a reality. “It’s very exciting to get a step closer to being able to deliver ...

This past weekend at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts I attended MIT Reality Hack where I served as a panelist on the future of XR and as a judge in the hackathon's startup competition. It ...

The VR brain trust – including consumers, developers, engineers and evangelists – agree that today's best virtual reality experiences are being tethered, both literally and figuratively, by a reliance ...

Wireless VR will do a lot to help the tech become more viable, since dealing with your heavy cable umbilical on Oculus and HTC Vive right now is a pain. MIT has created a new wireless communication ...