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Exclusive Hands-on: Part Two – Everything New About Reverb G2
HP recently announced its latest VR headset, Reverb G2. It boasts a substantial number of improvements over the original Reverb and clearly represents the next-gen of WMR headsets. We were fortunate enough to get an exclusive hands-on with the...
Cas & Chary Present: Checking Out the YAW VR Motion Simulator
I recently had the opportunity to test the YAW VR motion simulator, so I wanted to share my first impressions!
Cas & Chary Present
Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who...
Exclusive Hands-on: HP’s Reverb G2 is the King of Clarity
Today HP revealed its next-gen WMR headset, Reverb G2. While the original Reverb beat out the competition in resolution, some aspects of its display held it back from really capitalizing on all those pixels. Reverb G2 brings with it...
Hands-on: Pico Neo 2 Could Be the Next Best Standalone After Quest
At CES this week, Pico unveiled a pair of its latest standalone VR headsets, Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye. While the company is targeting enterprise customers in the West, the Neo 2 line is eyeing up the same...
Hands-on: Pico ‘VR Glasses’ Prototype is the Most Impressive VR Viewer Yet
This week at CES 2020, Pico quietly revealed a prototype headset which its calling the Pico VR Glasses. This phone-tethered 3DOF 'VR viewer' was surprisingly complete, offering a decent resolution and field of view, focus adjustment, and motion controller...
Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking...
Hands-on with TEGway’s VR Thermal Haptics Dev Kit, Launching in March
Korea-based TEGway, developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. We got to try the latest prototype this week...
Hands-on: Quest Hand-tracking Will be Great for Casual Input, But Core Games Will Still Rely on...
Oculus finally revealed that Quest will get controllerless hand-tracking input. We got to test the feature at Oculus Connect 6 last week and came away impressed. Hand-tracking will open the door to a range of casual use-cases that will...
Hands-on: Vive Cosmos Aims to Reboot the Vive Experience
HTC's latest VR headset, Vive Cosmos, is just around the corner. This week Road to VR got a preview of the headset ahead of its October 3rd launch.
In a meeting at HTC’s Vive office in San Francisco this week,...
Exclusive: Vality is Building a Compact VR Headset with Ultra-high Resolution
Germany-based startup Vality is developing a VR headset that aims to offer near-retina resolution in a compact form-factor. This week, Road to VR got an exclusive hands-on with an early prototype of the Vality headset.
Vality wants to rewrite the definition of...
Preview: Valve Index is the DSLR to the Oculus Rift S Point-and-shoot
While we offered our initial hands-on impressions with the Valve's new Index headset last month, we've now had many more hours inside the headset, and an opportunity to put it side by side with others. Here's a deeper look...
Hands-on: Logitech is Building the SteamVR Stylus That Needs to Exist
Logitech today revealed the VR Ink 'Pilot Edition', a stylus built for art and design in VR. Built with SteamVR Tracking tech, the stylus works similarly to a typical SteamVR controller, but affords the natural precision that comes with...
Hands-on: Valve’s Index Headset Sets an Impressive New Bar for VR Fidelity
Valve has finally given Index a full reveal and has announced that the headset will be available for pre-order starting tomorrow and is due to ship by the end of June. We recently visited Valve's offices for a hands-on...
Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty
Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out...
Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few Tradeoffs)
Oculus has finally taken the wraps off of Rift S, its first PC VR headset release in three years. But there's a reason the company is calling this Rift S and not Rift 2; the changes are mostly for...
