Examples disclosed herein relate to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar for virtual beam steering. The MIMO radar has a plurality of transmit antennas and a receive antenna array having a plurality of radiating elements. The MIMO radar also includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to synthesize a virtual receive array having N×M receive subarrays from the plurality of transmit antennas and the receive antenna array, where N is the number of transmit antennas and M is the number of receiving elements. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a method of virtual beam steering.