Feature
The Most Anticipated VR Games Coming in 2020
There's been no shortage of great VR games in 2019, although 2020 is shaping up to be a pretty significant year in VR gaming too.
We rounded up the top titles confirmed for release in 2020, which includes everything from...
‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios
Sanzaru Games has been working closely with Oculus Studios since the early days of the Oculus Rift. And while the studio has three other VR games to its name, none of them come close to the scale of Asgard's Wrath—in...
The Most Interesting Thing About Quest Tethering is What it Says About Next-gen Oculus Headsets
Oculus announced last month that Quest will soon be able to play Oculus games on PC via a new feature called Oculus Link. Though Oculus Link will immediately add big boost in value to existing Quest headsets, perhaps even...
Cas & Chary Present: Nine Highlights from Oculus Connect 6
At Oculus Connect 6, we had the opportunity to try out many of the new things announced at the event, as well as check out the latest work by developers and creators working in the VR space. In this...
Vive Cosmos Review – A Decent Headset Up Against Stiff Competition
Vive Cosmos has arrived and takes HTC's consumer headset ambitions in a somewhat different direction. Three and a half years after the launch of the original Vive, Cosmos finds itself in a rather strange competitive landscape where it simultaneously...
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: Oculus Link Makes Quest Feel Like a Native PC VR Headset
Announced yesterday, Oculus Link will allow Quest to play Rift games by connecting to any VR-capable PC. In our hands-on at Oculus Connect, the feature really does seem to deliver an experience that feels like a native PC VR...
PC Tethering on Quest is a Huge Upgrade, Making Rift S a Tough Sell
Oculus today announced an upcoming PC tethering feature coming to Quest headsets in November. Oculus Link, as it's called, will let users plug into VR ready PCs and play games originally designed for Rift. Oculus is calling it "the...
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...
‘NOSTOS’ Beta Gameplay Highlights the Pitfalls of ‘VR-optional’ Game Design
In development by NetEase Games, NOSTOS is an online RPG due to launch later this year on PC with optional VR support. The game recently had a closed-beta period which gives a good look at how things are shaping up with...
Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet
Whenever I used to think about brain-computer interfaces (BCI), I typically imagined a world where the Internet was served up directly to my mind through cyborg-style neural implants—or basically how it's portrayed in Ghost in the Shell. In that world,...
Have You Found These 11 Easter Eggs in Valve’s ‘The Lab’?
Valve's collection of VR-minigames, The Lab, is one of the highest rated SteamVR titles and it's free. With support for Index, Vive, Rift, and Windows VR, there's no reason not to try it if you own a PC VR headset. Beyond...
‘Until You Fall’ Early Access Review: VR Hack & Slash, with Depth
Until You Fall is something of an unexpected title for Schell Games. For a studio which has previously focused on education and puzzle based VR games, Until You Fall brings a surprisingly rich combat experience which successfully fuses meta-game elements in...
‘No Man’s Sky’ VR Review – A Wonderful, Deeply Flawed Space Odyssey
Beyond the known world is a galaxy of infinite exploration and endless possibility. That is, of course, until you meet your end at the whim of an angry detachment of Sentinels, or breathe in too many atmospheric toxins and...
