Virgin Media will rollout gigabit broadband this year following successful trials, promising to connect over 1 million UK users by the end of 2019 and pledging to provide gigabit speeds across its entire network of 15 million connections by the close of 2021. The UK operator, owned by Liberty Global, cited 8K video streaming, cloud gaming and VR applications as reason for its aggressive gigabit build out, for which Arris is a key supplier of DOCSIS 3.1 equipment. Amazon’s debut virtual reality app has arrived with Prime Video VR – available on Quest, Go, Rift and Gear VR headsets all manufactured by Facebook’s Oculus. Prime Video VR is available free to Prime subscribers in the US and UK, although just…