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Adding Haptic Feedback through Inaudible Bass with SubPac

It was on a San Jose sidewalk in 2015 that I first tried the SubPac and felt like I was immediately transported into a dance club standing in front of giant subwoofers with the soundwaves of bass rippling through...

Sony Completely Revamps U.S. HMZ-T1 HMD Product Page, Better Appreciates Demand?

Sony seems to have majorly underestimated demand for their recently released HMZ-T1 head mounted display. Stock shortages were apparently worldwide at launch, and Sony's US HMZ-T1 product page no longer lists 1/17/12 as the estimated ship date for new...

Road to VR Joins the Rev VR Podcast on Episode 26

Last week I joined host 'Reverend Kyle' on the 26th episode of the Rev VR podcast to talk more about about my latest hands-on time with several up and coming virtual reality products. Kyle has been giving a voice to the...

Buyer Beware… Possible Oculus Rift Counterfeits — UPDATE: Seller Response Added

A certain web based seller is advertising to sell prospective buyers Oculus Rift Development Kits in bulk. Something's amiss here, Road to VR investigates. Buyer Beware You know your product has 'made it' when scammers begin to target your product for...

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment Used in a Willow Music Video

After talking about Cave Augmented Virtual Environments the other day, reader Yossi pointed out that the Belgium band Willow recently utilized a CAVE in a music video for their song Sweater. The band put together a very neat sequence using the VR platform...

Leap is a Highly Accurate and Highly Affordable bit of Hand-tracking Hardware for Computer Interaction [video]

Thanks for a tip from Jeff Austin, I'm now looking at the Leap, an incredible -- and incredibly affordable -- piece of hardware that allows for extremely accurate realtime sensing of one's hands; the input from which can be used...

Oculus to Give Virtual Reality Talk at GDC Next Month

The Oculus Rift is expected to be delivered to developers next month (and is already in the hands of a select few). This coincides nicely with the ever popular Game Developers Conference (GDC) where we expect to hear much about virtual...

Oculus Announces Connect 3 Dev Conference, Registration Coming Soon

If you're panning on attending this year's Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, CA, you can now officially mark your calendars for October 5-7 for what Oculus is billing as their "largest developer conference yet." Last year's Connect saw with it several big...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 57): Discussing the First Los Angeles VR Meetup (VRLA), with Founder Cosmo...

With almost 200 people from the Los Angeles area packing the motion capture stage of FX-house, Digital Domain, the first VRLA Meetup exceeded founder Cosmo Scharf’s vision to bring virtual reality to his city. When Cosmo first told me about...
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Peter Kafka from AllThingsD tries the Oculus Rift, “I’m a little queasy, but it’s awesome” [Video]

At the 'D: Dive Into Media' conference on Tuesday, Brendan Iribe joined Peter Kafta from AllthingsD to give him a chance to try the Oculus Rift HMD. His reaction to the experience, mirrored those of many before him --...
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Preview: ‘Moderat: Reminder’ is an Energetic VR Music Video set in a Beautiful Dystopia

Electronic music and dystopian worlds seem to go hand-in-hand these days, and with German electronic group Moderat releasing their third album in April, what better way to hype the release than with a VR experience of the record's first single, 'Reminder'? Director Mate Steinforth and...

VRLA Meetup to Host E3 VR Mixer Next Week in Los Angeles

Next week at E3 2014, the VRLA Meetup will be hosting the VR community at a VR Mixer event near the Los Angeles convention center. The doors are open to anyone (21+) interested in VR! Taking after the successful VR...

The Problem With Projections and What Makes the Just-released ‘2016 VR Industry Report’ Different

Today we publish the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report. Co-authored with VR business intelligence firm Greenlight VR, the report is a distillation of years of experience, research, and analysis into an accessible and comprehensive foundation of the virtual reality landscape, with the...

Google Glass Project Leader Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Wears a Glass Prototype to the Interview

Sebastian Thrun, who is one of the project leads for Google's Project Glass, sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose and chats about the augmented reality project, among other things. Thrun brought a Project Glass prototype with him...
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