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Hardlight VR Haptic Vest Gets Significant Price Cut, Torso & Arm Tracking Demonstrated
Road to VR recently visited Hardlight VR’s downtown Seattle office to take a look at the new Mark III version of their haptic vest. During the visit, Hardlight VR revealed a dramatically lower price point of $300. This is...
Road to VR’s 2017 Game of the Year Awards
It's been a fantastic year for virtual reality games, and with VR titles hailing from ambitious indie studios and well-established developers alike, the prospect of having truly great games in VR is decidedly here. We at the Road to VR editorial staff,...
Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product ‘Magic Leap One’, Shipping Starts in 2018
After the long wait, Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, finally unveiled its first AR headset. Releasing first as a 'Creator Edition', the so-called 'Magic Leap One' AR headset is said to start shipping in 2018.
While the company has...
Lytro is Positioning Its Light Field Tech as VR’s Master Capture Format
Lytro, a leading light-field company, is positioning its light-field capture and playback technology as the ideal format for immersive content. The company is building a toolset for capturing, rendering, and intermingling both synthetic and live-action light-field experiences which can...
‘L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files’ Review – A Virtual Scavenger Hunt
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is the debut VR title from Rockstar Games, and a remake of unique action-detective game L.A. Noire which was released in 2011. LA Noire VR draws upon the same foundation of impressive facial motion...
Update: ZED Mini Turns Rift and Vive into an AR Headset From the Future
Stereo camera company Stereolabs has launched pre-orders for the ZED Mini, a smaller version of their stereo depth-mapping camera which fits on a mount made to attach to VR headsets like the Rift and Vive. When attached, the camera...
Exclusive: Leap Motion Explores Ways to Make Controller-free Input More Intuitive and Immersive
There's an intuitive appeal to using controller-free hand-tracking input like Leap Motion's; there's nothing quite like seeing your virtual hands and fingers move just like your own hands and fingers without the need to pick up and learn how to...
Oculus Rift Core 2.0 Update Now Available in Beta – Hands-on with Home & Dash
Announced back in October, Oculus is launching the Rift Core 2.0 update today in beta, a major overhaul to the platform’s underlying experience. The update not only rebuilds the default ‘Home’ environment with huge customization potential, it also introduces...
‘DOOM VFR’ Review – Hell Can Wait
The name Doom carries a great weight of expectation in video game circles. One part technical showcase, one part genre-defining milestone - with a giant dash of adrenaline for good measure - the series is rightly feted as one...
Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 2
In Part 1 of this article we explored the current state of CGI, game, and contemporary VR systems. Here in Part 2 we look at the limits of human visual perception and show several of the methods we're exploring...
Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 1
Virtual experiences through virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are a new frontier for computer graphics. This frontier state is radically different from modern game and film graphics. For those, decades of production expertise and stable technology have already realized...
Exclusive: Lytro Reveals Immerge 2.0 Light-field Camera with Improved Quality, Faster Captures
Lytro's Immerge light-field camera is meant for professional high-end VR productions. It may be a beast of a rig, but it's capable of capturing some of the best looking volumetric video that I've had my eyes on yet. The...
Best VR Experiences to Introduce Your Family to Virtual Reality Over Thanksgiving
The turkey is in the oven, the cranberry sauce is in the can, and your VR setup is in the box ready to be shown off to the family at Thanksgiving. Since you'll be doing a fair bit of...
Hands-on: HaptX Glove Delivers Impressively Detailed Micro-pneumatic Haptics, Force Feedback
The company formerly known as AxonVR, which has raised more than $5 million in venture capital, is rebranding to HaptX, and revealing a feature prototype of a VR glove which uses micro-pneumatics for detailed haptics and force feedback to...
‘Skyrim VR’ Review – The Other Side of the Immersion Equation
Skyrim VR is the first to launch in a series of VR titles from legendary game-maker Bethesda (with Doom VR and Fallout 4 VR soon to follow). The title is effectively a port of the now six year-old open-world...




















