In a new update to the Oculus Rift PC runtime, the company has removed a controversial DRM provision which checked to ensure that users running Rift games were actually using a Rift headset. In a statement shared with Road to VR...

Those of us wrapped up in the dizzying (sometimes literally) world of virtual reality have been so focussed on following the progress of how the hard, pure technical problems are being solved by those smart eggs at Oculus VR, that we...

Insomniac Games, the studio known for series such as Ratchet & Clank and Spyro the Dragon, today announced an Oculus Touch exclusive that promises to have you throwing fire balls and wielding magic of all sorts. It's called The Unspoken. Boasting more than 25 spells and...

One of Oculus' 30 titles coming to support their Touch motion controllers this year, Ripcoil from Sanzaru Games takes some heavy gameplay influences from the classic TRON disc battles but utilises motion controls to "Control your body and hands...

Sulon had an impressive presence at CES 2015, their sizeable booth on the show floor accompanied by eye-catching prototype headsets clearly designed to announce to the world that they'd arrived. Their product, an AR/VR headset named the 'Cortex', has an interesting...

The Virtuix Omni is a passive omnidirectional treadmill that looks like it could fill one of the last major missing pieces of the VR puzzle. The Omni, which is soon to hit Kickstarter, allows players to walk, jump, and...

Virtuix has just announced that it has secured $2.7M of investment as the commercial launch of its omni-directional treadmill, the Omni approaches. Time was at Road to VR that every other week we'd have a story on the Virtuix Omni,...

Stretch goals for the record-breaking Avegant Glyph Kickstarter have been finalized, with some of the goals having been passed even before they were even created. Rewards include new colors, noise canceling, and limited edition engraving. Avegant is taking the...

Last time we checked in on Nathan Andrews, he was working on a Half Life 2 VR mod to support independent head and gun tracking. Andrews has continued his work on the mod which now supports the Oculus Rift...

Crytek's new virtual reality demo prototype which debuts at E3 this week, is an impressive testament to Crytek's renewed commitment to VR. Here's a video playthrough and some thoughts from my time with the 'Robinson: The Journey' Prototype. Arguably late to...

Today Oculus Story Studio is premiering their second made-for-VR short film called Henry, a tale about a not-so-cuddly porcupine who, in a cruel twist of fate, wants nothing more than the embrace of a friend. With the premiere of the...

Yesterday marked the start of the 2016 Youth Olympic winter games held in Norway. VR video company NextVR was on the scene to stream the opening ceremony and will be capturing highlights throughout the event. With the Olympic tradition of...

The Virtual Reality Foundation has announced the nominees for the 2016 Proto Awards, the third annual award show created to honor individuals and teams making strides in the field of virtual reality. Selecting the nominees was done through an intensive process wherein the...

While Sony's HMZ-T1 and Silicon Micro Display's ST1080 have made a major splash in the world of head mounted displays by bringing high resolution and (relatively) low cost products to market, a key issue still remains -- field of...

The Totem VR headset Kickstarter has launched. Vrvana, formerly 'True Player Gear', is seeking $350,000 CAD to get a dev kit of the product into the hands of developers. I sat down with Vrvana CEO Bert Nepveu to...