Ben Lang
Based in Silicon Valley, Ben has held editorial positions across several technology publications for eight years. He founded Road to VR in 2011 to explore the immense possibilities of virtual reality, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. Having seen the individual pieces but never the entire puzzle, he set out to map VR’s current state-of-the-art and to understand how far it is from a perfect simulation of reality (a la Matrix).
Beginning with tracking the consumer VR space nearly a year before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, Ben has spent the last several years actively documenting and promoting the industry as it experiences an explosive resurgence.
While Apple's new Vision Pro headset isn't going to satisfy the existing base of consumer VR users, it's mastering the rest of the basics better than anyone else.
Probably 90% of what consumers are using VR headsets for today is...
Ahead of the Apple Vision Pro's release in 'early 2024', the company says it will open several centers in a handful of locations around the world, giving some developers a chance to test the headset before it's released to...
Apple's WWDC keynote is today, and the company is heavily expected to reveal an immersive headset for the first time. Here's where to see the action live.
Apple's WWDC keynote will be held at 10AM PT on June 5th (your...
More than four years after I first caught wind of their tech, CREAL's light-field display continues to be one of the most interesting and promising solutions for bringing light-fields to immersive headsets. At AWE 2023 I got to check...
Like its predecessors, Quest 3 will be able to plug into high-end gaming PCs to play top PC VR titles.
Meta might have largely abandoned PC VR, but it's not ready to pull the plug completely.
A spokesperson for the company...
With Quest 3 now officially announced, Meta is emphasizing the device's improved MR capabilities.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram to share a first look at mixed reality gameplay on Quest 3 which was announced yesterday.
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With the announcement of Quest 3, Meta is dropping the price of Quest 2 starting on June 4th to make way for its new flagship headset.
The story of Quest 2's price takes yet another turn. Let's recap.
When the headset...
Zuckerberg took to Instagram to tease an announcement for... something... ahead of its big Quest Gaming Showcase tomorrow. Signs are pointing to Quest 3.
We have no insider info on what might be behind the countdown clock on Zuckerberg's Instagram...
10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows...
One of VR's most popular horror games is getting a sequel. Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 is officially heading to PSVR 2 and promises to improve on the original.
Developer Steel Wool Studios says that FNAF: Help Wanted 2 will...
The standalone VR market is continuing to grow, and with it, we're increasingly seeing platform competition for quality content. Pico made its biggest push into consumer VR so far with the launch of the Pico 4 last year, and...
Apple has sent invitations to its upcoming WWDC keynote to select media outlets, including Road to VR.
Apple has historically not invited XR media to its events, let alone commented in any way on its XR R&D that has been reportedly...
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...
First it was the desktop. Then the laptop. And now, the... spacetop? That's the category that Sightful hopes to carve out with its new "augmented reality laptop" which combines a pair of augmented reality glasses with a keyboard, allowing...
Since the release of its first (and so far, only) VR headset in 2019 and its flagship VR game in 2020, Valve has been worryingly quiet about its future plans for VR. But recent hiring and job listings suggest...
