If you are a non-profit university or academic institution with a lust for virtual reality, you could be in luck. Through its Academic Research Request for Proposals, Microsoft will award five US universities or educational institutions with $100,000 and two HoloLens kits a piece. These will b...

Smartphones are the cameras we always carry in our pockets, so why not augment them for more variety, facility and creativity? That’s the idea behind Lensbaby’s newly released Creative Mobile Kit, which includes two new clip-on lenses: the LM-20 and the LM-30, alongside a...

Pinterest has announced its first round of integrations — with IFTTT and Polyvore — built on its new Developers Platform. Since launching the platform a few months ago, the network has worked with developers to take advantage of Pinterest APIs to help peop...

While the beta version of Affinity Photo — launched in February as an independent challenger to Adobe Photoshop — was extremely smooth, usable and bursting at the seams with high-end features, it was still a beta and needed a bit of polish. Not anymore. Today, Serif has releas...

Lytro has released a massive update to its Illum light-field camera — a combination firmware and desktop upgrade that positions the camera as a content creator for virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard. Light field cameras capture different data a...

These days, the biggest photo-based challenge isn’t necessarily where or how to store your images. There are plenty of places — from Flickr to Google Photos to Dropbox to Instagram to Facebook and beyond — vying for your pixels. The real issue is finding the pictures you care ...