How VR Trend Magazine is made

VR Trend Magazine is a monthly review of virtual reality, mixed reality and spatial computing. Once a month we gather the stories that mattered and put them in one place, for people who need to know what is moving in the industry without following it every day.

Who publishes it

The magazine is a product of Techcopter, which builds industrial immersive technology: converting CAD for augmented and virtual reality, training crews, and analysing process hazards in 3D.

That means our publisher works in the industry this magazine reports on, and you should know it. Nothing corrects for that except method, so the ranking is mechanical, it counts how many outlets carry a story and nothing else, and every story links to the reporting it came from so you can go and check. Techcopter is not written about here, and its customers, partners and competitors get no different treatment from anyone else.

There is no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate link anywhere on this site, and nothing in a briefing is paid for. If that ever changes it will be said on this page before it appears anywhere else.

How stories are chosen

We follow the specialist VR press through the month and group the reporting by story. A story carried by many outlets ranks above one carried by a single publication, which is what we mean by a trend, and it is how we decide what was most valuable that month. That ranking is the only editorial judgement we make, and it is why the stories appear in the order they do.

How the briefing is written

We write each story in our own words from the reporting we have read. We use only facts that appear in that reporting, we link every story to where it came from, and we label a rumour as a rumour. If a month does not give us enough worth publishing, we hold the issue rather than pad it.

Pictures

Each story carries the photograph the publication that reported it ran alongside it. We credit that publication under the picture and link back to the article, so the credit goes where the work was done. Where a story has no picture of its own we use a stock photograph from Pexels, credited to its photographer, and where there is neither the page shows a plain dated plate rather than something misleading.

If you hold the rights to a picture here and would rather we did not use it, tell us and we will take it down.

Corrections

We can get things wrong. If you spot an error, tell us and we will correct the issue or withdraw it, with a dated note saying what changed. The original reporting always belongs to the publications we link to, so please read and support them.