Mattel, Inc. is bringing its View-Master toy series into the 21st century by upgrading the 3D photo viewer into a mobile VR headset based on Google Cardboard. This weekend at the New York Toy Fair.

Virtual reality (VR) has long been seen in the mind of the public as a way to “see” within computers. As a result, it has an audience with their eyes peeled for everything from computer graphics VR ...

LucidCam ($499; available on Amazon) addresses one of the issues that prevents wide adoption of virtual reality (VR): VR headsets aren’t hard to find, but VR content creation remains a major barrier.

Announced on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the LucidCam from Lucid VR combines stereoscopic video with virtual reality, 180-degree recording. The device itself isn’t much ...