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.
Meta Connect 2023 has wrapped up, bringing with it a deluge of info from one of the XR industry's biggest players. Here's a look at the biggest announcements from Connect 2023, but more importantly, what it all means for...
The much lauded Echo VR might no longer be with us, but one of its innovations is living on in a new wave of VR games.
Echo VR (and its single-player counterpart, Lone Echo) were among the first major VR games...
Meta Quest 3 brings with it new 'Touch Plus' controllers that do away with the tracking ring that's been part of the company's 6DOF consumer VR controllers ever since the original Rift. But that's not the only change.
Editor's Note:...
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR has been in the works seemingly for ages, but one major question has gone unanswered until now: just how does the game's parkour work?
If you've played pretty much any existing Assassin's Creed game, you'll know that...
Quest 3 is an impressive leap in hardware, especially in the visual department, but it continues Meta's tradition of building great hardware that feels held back by its software.
Update (September 27th, 2023): Fixed the link to the second page at...
One of the biggest names in social gaming is now officially on the official Quest Store, launching out of App Lab starting today. Roblox is home to tens of millions of daily users and user-generated experiences, casting a clear shadow on...
Bigscreen Beyond is the most interesting and promising new dedicated PC VR headset to come out in years, and while there's a lot to like, we're still waiting on a key piece that will make or break the headset.
Bigscreen...
With the early 2024 release of Vision Pro quickly approaching, Apple is steadily updating its products to prepare for the new headset.
In addition to an upcoming spatial capture feature on iPhone 15 Pro, Apple also says its latest AirPods...
Leaked documents relating to Microsoft's business strategy for Xbox show the company eyeing XR technology but continuing to keep it at arm's length.
While Microsoft has previously taken considerable steps into XR with both HoloLens and the Windows Mixed Reality...
Popular VR-optional tabletop dungeon board game Demeo lets four players dungeon dive together. But, come November 9th, players will be able to duke it out amongst one another when the separate PvP title Demeo Battles arrives.
Update (September 15th, 2023): The long-awaited Demeo...
Apple today announced its iPhone 15 lineup of smartphones, including the iPhone 15 Pro which will be the company's first phone to capture spatial video for immersive viewing on Vision Pro.
While Apple Vision Pro itself works as a spatial...
Instead of taking you right to your library of installed apps, Meta is making yet another perplexing change to the Quest landing page in v57.
Since the earliest days of Meta's VR platform, the company has been seemingly obsessed with not...
Another Axiom, the studio behind the viral VR indie hit Gorilla Tag, has revealed the first glimpse of its next project. 'Project A2' is an ambitious spiritual successor to the now shuttered Echo VR, and a full-circle moment for the studio.
With...
Varjo, maker of high-end XR headsets, today announced that it has closed a multi-million dollar deal to supply headsets for the U.S. Army's Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Air Trainer (RVCT-A) initiative.
The US. Army's Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Air Trainer (RVCT-A) aims to...
NVIDIA this week announced Half-Life 2: RTX, a community-made remaster of the legendary game featuring all-new assets, textures, and lighting. Pieces of the remaster are likely to make their way to the already existing Half-Life 2: VR Mod.
When it rains, it...
