VRChat announced today that it has closed a $10 million Series C investment to continue expanding its immersive social platform which is steeped in user-generated content. VRChat is an immersive social platform that allows VR and non-VR users to socialize...

Bristol, UK-based designer Joe Ryan launched his first Kickstarter back in 2015, the VRGO chair locomotion device, which saw a modest £22,100 (~$27,000) in crowdfunds. Now, a smaller form factor version of the device is being launched through a...

Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 (2003) is an hour-long film that expertly blends the electronic music duo's album Discovery with some pretty striking visuals, courtesy of Japanese anime studio Toei Animation. Now, thanks to a group of fans led by Sydney-based VR developer Jake...

Ubisoft, which has released five VR titles to date, confirmed that it's building a large, 50 person team to develop an "unannounced AAA project" using one of the company's well known IPs. Ubisoft has confirmed to VRFocus that it's spinning up a...

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....