Top 45 VR sites, blogs, medium authors and YouTube channels to follow
Although Virtual Reality is growing well, it’s still rather hard to find interesting stories and news about it.
That’s why we’ve decided to make a list of blogs, medium authors and YouTube channels that are definitely worth following if you want to stay on top of the news.
Order is random because we want you to decide what suits you best.
Medium publications & authors
Haptical
Founder and editor Deniz Ergürel makes sure you can find really interesting things about VR/AR.
Haptical’s weekly guide is very pleasant way to stay updtated.
Virtual Reality Pop
One of the best if not the best publication with a lot of authors contributing, you can find here stories about everything connected with VR.
Within
VR company on a mission to tell extraordinary stories.
Tech Trends
Site where editor Alice Bonasio shares latest news and opinion on technology.
CinematicVR
A digital magazine exploring the new realities of immersive storytelling. You can submit your own story there which is cool. A lot of writers are contributing.
RTP Virtual Reality
Nathan Hoffmeier, Virtual Reality and Education Advocate often shares his interesting thoughts.
Robert Scoble
San Francisco based blogger MR apostol, technical evangelist and author. He worked for Fast Company and then Rackspace. He currently works for Upload VR but he also shares his thoughts on Medium.
Mighty Things
Mighty Things is a global strategy and business intelligence firm at the forefront of emerging tech. You can find nice stories here about VR/AR and other technologies that you surely like.
Boost VC
Collection of post from this Venture Capital is an opportunity to take a look also at bussiness side of VR.
The Metaverse Muse
Each week, they publish articles exploring the next great paradigm shift in human-computer interaction — VR. Writers try to shine some light on how it will affect our life.
AWE Blog
Official blog of event dedicated to VR, AR and wearable tech.
There Is Only R
Digital magazine where you can find stories about Virtual and Augmented Reality.
No Proscenium
Something slightly different but still connected. A guide to live immersive entertainment with essays and reviews.
Attack The Front
Blog for UX and UI lovers where you can often find articles about VR.
YVR
Another collection of stories about UX and UI written by various experienced designers crazy about VR.
Artificial Endings
A collection of stories about the afterlife in a simulated universe. If you are VR enthusiasts it might be interesting for you take a look at some hypothesis.
Beyond the Headset
Weekly interviews series with the leading minds in VR. No technical knowledge required.
GHVR
Observations, reflections, predictions and directions on VR, AR and Mixed Reality with various authors contributing.
Journalism360
An initiative of thought leaders, practitioners, and journalists dedicated to accelerating immersive storytelling in news.
The FOO Blog
TV shows in Virtual Reality, sounds like fun? Definitely yes and it might be near future. With Will Smith as CEO, FOO launched campaign on Kickstarter.
VR sites & blogs
UploadVR
VR site founded in 2014. Their mission is to accelerate the growth of the virtual reality industry. A must-have if you want the latest news, reviews and reports.
Road to VR
Founded in 2011 this site is great source of news about virtual reality, augmented reality and human-computer interaction.
They manage to navigate between today’s immersive technology and that of the distant future, capable of perfect simulations of reality.
VRHeads
Another fun and nice looking site with all the latest news. They want readers to be part of the conversation and they are building community through their forum.
Alice Bonasio
Her awesome blog is a showcase of the latest disruptive technology that is changing the world we live and work in.
Notey
Your daily dose of best VR news from other websites. You can save some time easily and be up to date.
Infinity leap
Open news and multi-author platform solely for new technologies and their communities.
VRScout
Founded in 2014 by group of friends that shares the same passion — shining light on the advancements in virtual reality and the people behind them.
augmented.org
This site is blogging for six years now. Tobias D. Kammann is involved with AR since 2002. augmented.org also serves as a hub for further contacts: find links to well-known and less known AR sources and people.
The Verge
The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience.
Although they focus on everything connected with technology, they have pretty sweet VR dedicated site.
The VRguy
Yuval Boger shares his experience and views on HMDs and VR technologies.
Augmentl.io
No advertising. Non profit. No noise. Maintained by industry insiders, really awesome site.
Doc-Ok.org
A developer’s perspective on immersive 3D computer graphics.
Wareable
Launched in 2014 this site focuses on everything wearable. Their misssion is to enable enthusiasts, early adopters and gadget lovers to get the most from exciting new world of connected tech.
VRTech
They take the best industry research and put their own spin on it, report from the frontline of virtual reality, as well as feature contributions from companies.
Gizmodo
This site has pretty cool VR news and reviews. They also try to predict industry’s distant future.
Jaunt VR
Since Jaunt started producing cinematic virtual reality, they’ve learned a lot about what it takes to make a great VR experience.
They share their experience on blog, Jens Christensen Jaunt CEO and Founder also shares his thoughts on Twitter.
Real Virtual Show
Site which specializes in live podcasts but you can find there also blog with summary of most important VR/AR news of the week.
Voices of VR
The Voices of VR is a podcast published three to five days a week featuring interviews with the pioneering game developers, enthusiasts and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual reality.
VR Source
VR Source is an independent online publication and aims to provide a place where audience can learn about all facets of VR technology including headsets, 360 cameras, VR games, VR-ready computers.
VR YouTube channels
UploadVR
Their site is absolutely one of the best there is but their channel is awesome too. UploadVR is dedicated to accelerating the growth of the virtual reality industry.
Road to VR
You will find here trailers, gameplays and reviews for every main VR headsets on the martket.
Twisted Reality
Over 2M hits ! lot’s of content in one place + super kind redactor squad :)
The Verge
Although it’s not dedicated strictly to VR you can find some pretty cool news about it.
VR Source
Lots of devices and games reviews.
Nathie
Reviews and gameplay made by true VR enthusiast on Playstation VR, Oculus Rift, Touch and HTC Vive.
Conclusion
Each site, author is slightly different, but they all share the same mission — to deliver news and make VR community stronger and stimulate it’s growth.
There are new sites and authors worth following appearing each week and we will be updating this list. Do you know who/what should be on this list? Help us make this list more complete!
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