Gamescom, the world's largest gaming event, won't be taking place in Cologne, Germany as planned this August. Following a nation-wide ban on major events, Gamescom 2020 will be taking place online due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19). Germany's nationwide ban...

Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls: Blades back at E3 2018, promising that the free-to-play title would support VR headsets all the way from standalone to high-end PC. It's been nearly two years since that announcement, but Bethesda has "no update" on...

Pistol Whip (2019), the VR rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, just got a new dielselpunk-inspired update, available now on Oculus Quest and SteamVR-compatible headsets. Called 'Dark Skies', the update includes a new level set on Zeppelin, replete with hanger bay and...

Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is already inspiring modders to strip Valve's flagship VR title of assets and character models for their own strange and wonderful devices. Exhibit A: you can now play some Wolfenstein 3D in VR, replete with HLA's guns, grenades,...

Road to VR is running a survey with our partner Gamer Network to better understand our audience. Your participation is entirely optional and anonymous, but we’d be thrilled if you’d share your responses with us. You may recall that Road to VR partnered...

While we've talked plenty about the power of WebXR—a standard which makes it possible to deliver VR experiences directly from web browsers—there hasn't been a centralized destination to discover WebXR apps as users would expect from other content platforms....

With a successful holiday season under its belt, Facebook was no doubt looking forward to resupplying its retail partners with more Oculus Quest & Rift S stock. However in a perfect storm of high demand, low supply, and on-going...

The secret to Half-Life: Alyx's near-universal acclaim is... well, not as secret as you might think. Yes, the game surely had a budget much larger than any other VR game to date, but it's far more than money that makes a...

Etee, the finger-tracking VR controller with SteamVR Tracking, has nearly reached its Kickstarter goal with plenty of time to spare. Though the controller is designed to be free of buttons, sticks, and triggers (relying instead on finger tracking), its...

WebXR is an open standard which allows VR apps to run directly from web browsers. While the tools for building WebXR apps are designed to be familiar to web developers, many VR developers use game engine tools like Unity...

Universe Sandbox, the physics-based space simulator from Giant Army, made a splash on PC back in 2015, later getting VR support so you could physically smash the Moon into the Earth with your own two hands. Now Giant Army has released...

In its latest hiring bout, over the last month Apple has sought more than a dozen new hires specifically for AR and VR roles. Among them, the company is looking for a Computational Display Engineering Manager for incubating advanced...

The latest Steam Survey data became available this week, showing a record number of headsets in use on the platform as well as a surprising shift in the popularity of specific headsets. That’s based on March 2020 data released this...

Usage friction—the time and effort it takes before actually starting to do anything in VR—remains a major hurdle for more mainstream adoption of VR. While hardware advancements have and will continue to reduce friction, there's still a completely untapped...

You're still burning through Half-Life: Alyx—or maybe you've finished it already—but if you're wondering where to go after playing one of the highest-rated VR games to date, you may do well to jump into these ten 'guaranteed fresh' VR...