Videos
CCP Games’ Erich Cooper Talks EVE: Valkyrie Game Design, Its Evolution and Its Future
Ben Lang is at EVE Fanfest 2015 in Reykjavik where the event, ordinarily dominated by CCP's huge MMO hit EVE Online, is setting aside significant chunks of itinerary to its virtual reality only online space dog fighting game EVE:...
Tactical Haptics’ Will Provancher Talks Updated ‘Reactive Grip’ and We Go Hands-on
As Ben Lang says in his interview introduction, Will Provancher is one of the OG's of virtual reality. Tactical Haptic's 'Reactive Grip' controller was one of the few peripherals shown back at GDC 2013 that aimed to enhance...
OSVR’s Yuval Boger Talks HDK and SDK Updates
OSVR has announced at GDC 2015 that it plans to update it's Hacker Developer Kit (HDK) open source headset to 1.1 bringing with it a collection of enhancements. OSVR's Yuval Boger walks Ben Lang through the hardware and software...
Sixense’s Danny Woodall on Porting ‘Jedi Training’ STEM Demo to Unreal Engine 4
Road to VR last caught up with Sixense at CES, where they demonstrated an early integration with Gear VR to add positional tracking. The 'Jedi Training' demo now comes to GDC, running on Unreal Engine 4. Ben Lang Speaks to Creative...
Preview: Virtuix Omni VR Treadmill Production Model (video)
I've been fortunate to try the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill several times over the course of its development. At every point though, I was testing some variation of the original prototype seen in the company's highly successful Kickstarter campaign....
Take a Whirlwind Tour of VR/AR at CES 2015 in 6 Minutes (video)
The movement of virtual and augmented reality from niche industrial and enthusiast technology to something the world is talking about really was palpable at CES this year. Here's a 6 minute video tour of the world's biggest technology event...
CastAR: Hands-On with the Early Dev Kit and Through-Glasses Gameplay (Video)
Technical Illusions recently began shipping their first early, pre-production sets of castAR augmented reality glasses to backers. We met up with the team at CES 2015 and got the chance to try out the new hardware. Here's what we saw.
It's a...
Virtuix Demonstrates Self-adjustment Capabilities of Omni VR Treadmill (video)
From the get-go, the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill was designed to be both adjustable and collapsible, allowing it to work for users of different heights and be stowed away out of sight. For the first time at CES 2015,...
CES 2015: Sixense Shows off Distortion Correction with STEM Motion Controller (video)
Sixense, creators of the tech behind the Razer Hydra, and the upcoming STEM motion controller, gave us a demo showing how STEM's new distortion correction method can make a huge difference in environments with magnetic distortion.
In the early days...
