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‘The North Face’ Brings the Wilderness to You Courtesy of Jaunt’s Cinematic VR
Jaunt VR, a company specialising in 360 VR Video, has collaborated with outdoor apparel giant 'The North Face', going out on into the wilderness to create a VR experience which captures the beauty of the great outdoors in 360...
Valve’s Michael Abrash Joins Oculus as Chief Scientist—Breaking
And we thought all the exciting Oculus news was done for the week... Valve's Michael Abrash is joining the company as Chief Scientist.Oculus just announced that Michael Abrash, formerly of Valve, will be joining the company as Chief Scientist....
Exclusive: VorpX Teaser — Crysis 3 on the Oculus Rift [video]
We were lucky enough to recently get our hands on the latest beta of the soon-to-be-released vorpX DirectX injection drivers, similar in aim to the community supported Vireio Perception offering, which adds Oculus Rift head-tracking, stereoscopic 3D, and pre-warping...
HTC Launches ‘Vive Studios’ for First-party VR Game Development and Publishing
HTC today announced that they've spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios.
Mirroring Oculus' own 'Oculus Studios' effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Like other first-party studios,...
HTC: Consumer Vive Is “Gonna Look a Lot Different” – Modular Headphones, New Mounting System, and...
While the HTC Vive's room-scale VR experience is one of the best available today, the device itself still needs to undergo a significant metamorphosis from development kit to consumer-ready product. Details about exactly what changes we'll see in the...
Go Show Kickstarter Launches to Bring Virtual Cinemas, YouTube, Hulu, and More to Smartphone VR Headsets
Sam Gebhardt, developer of VR cinema app Go Show, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bolster the feature set of the app. Designed for Smartphone VR headsets, Gebhardt hopes to add custom theaters, streaming media support, and more to...
Google Tango Dev Contest Includes AR/VR Track and $95,000 in Prize Money
Project Tango is Google's computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by...
Oculus Rift E3 News Roundup: 1080p Prototype, EVE-VR, and Sony’s Love for the Oculus Rift
Looking for a summary of all Oculus Rift E3 news so far? Road to VR has got you covered!
Oculus Rift E3 news: 1080p HD prototype
Undoubtedly, the biggest piece of news was the Oculus Rift HD prototype that was unveiled...
Google Launches ‘Works With Google Cardboard’ Certification for VR Smartphone Adapters
Today Google is taking the wraps off of a new certification program for VR smartphone adapters. 'Works with Google Cardboard' will allow Cardboard VR apps to adjust specifically for a given VR smartphone adapter and help users see which adapters...
Sony to Show off HMZ-T2 HMD Prototype with Head Tracking and Pass-through AR [Video]
Sony appears to be finally experimenting with augmented reality and virtual reality on their HMD line. The company has traditionally marketed their HMZ-T1 and HMZ-T2 head mounted displays as a "personal 3D viewer" rather than anything to do with...
Free Vireio Perception v2.0 Oculus Rift Driver Launches with VR Boost Add-On
A few days ago Neil Schneider, founder of MTBS3D, announced the long delayed launch of Vireio Perception 2.0, an open source 3D / VR Injection driver for VR HMDs.
The Community 3D Driver
Vireio Perception, a 3D Injection driver designed to...
FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset
FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves.
The newly revealed design differs from...
Proton Pulse Debuts First Full Release on Android for Google Cardboard
Proton Pulse has been a well known name in virtual reality since the early days of the Oculus Rift VR headset. After a successful Kickstarter in 2013 followed by a mysterious cancellation and refund to backers, there was a time when...
Surgeon Uses Oculus Rift On Patients, Streams Operation Using Google Glass
One of the joys of writing about reporting from the cutting-edge of a newly reborn technology like virtual reality is that you're constantly being surprised as what people are finding to do with it. Almost weekly there's some innovation...
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...


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