Although The Lion King (2019) might have garnered a tepid reception from film critics, there's no debating that Jon Favreau's photorealistic remake of the 1994 original film roars in the visual department. It's in part thanks to a production pipeline that...

Space Junkies (2019), the multiplayer sci-fi arena shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, has reached a pretty significant impasse; the studio is pulling its previously planned support for the flatscreen version of the game, and issuing its final update on PSVR and...

Whenever I used to think about brain-computer interfaces (BCI), I typically imagined a world where the Internet was served up directly to my mind through cyborg-style neural implants—or basically how it's portrayed in Ghost in the Shell. In that world,...

Facebook Reality Labs, the company's AR/VR R&D group, published detailed research on a method for hyper-realistic real-time virtual avatars, expanding on prior work which the company calls 'Codec Avatars'. Facebook Reality Labs has created a system capable of animating virtual...

Japan-based studio SpicyTails announced that Spice & Wolf VR will land on PSVR and Nintendo Labo VR this week. Furthermore, the studio says that the experience's sequel is already in the making. Based on the manga/anime Spice & Wolf, the studio celebrated two wildly...

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...

Sony is taking down a few beloved games from the PlayStation Store tomorrow, including Driveclub, Driveclub Bikes, and Driveclub VR. Servers are said to remain online until March 31st, 2020, however the Driveclub series and their DLC will be removed from...

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google Research engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a "new approach to hand perception." First unveiled at CVPR 2019 back in June, Google's on-device, real-time...

The second-generation HoloLens, first unveiled at Mobile World Congress earlier this year in Barcelona, still doesn't have a firm release date yet, although it appears that's about to change pretty soon. As reported by Reuters, Microsoft's executive vice president Harry...

NextVR, the VR livestreaming event app, is now available on Oculus Quest for free, which is said to come alongside a new technology that promises clearer and sharper video rendering. The studio calls the new rendering technology 'PAVE', which is said...

Beat Games, the studio behind the popular block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), today released a free update that brings with it six new playable tracks to the game, and a few new features and improvements too. The OST Vol....

There's a few great VR party games out there, including the reigning champion Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015), although I think a new game is poised to take the VR Party Crown. Resolution Games, the studio behind Bait!...

Valve launched The Lab as an experimental VR playground way back in 2016. Today the company is updating the game to bring it up to speed with the company's latest VR tech stack, including Index controller support, overhauled physics, spatialized...

HTC today announced that Viveport, the company's digital distribution platform for VR games, now supports Valve Index. Much like their previous promotion for Oculus Rift users, Valve Index owners will be able redeem two free months of Viveport Infinity, the...

An excellent Valve Index teardown gives a look at the headset's complex inner-workings. Along with getting a clear look at the headset's dual-element lenses, the teardown also reveals a screen diffuser. Valve touted a holistic design approach for its Index headset,...