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Oculus Brings More Lifelike Avatars to Rift & Go in ‘Expressive Avatars’ Update
Oculus is today launching their 'Expressive Avatars' update on Rift and mobile VR; it's a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and even microexpressions. If you're also hurting for more...
Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty
Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out...
New Multiplayer ‘Star Trek’ VR Game Rolls Out to Dave & Buster’s Nationwide
Star Trek makes a great basis for multiplayer VR—Star Trek: Bridge Crew proved that much when it launched for consumers back in 2017. If you've got a Dave & Buster's nearby, starting today you'll be able to jump into an all new...
‘Concrete Genie’ to Launch with 2 PSVR Modes This Year
Pixelopus announced their next game, Concrete Genie, way back at Paris Games Week in 2017. Now, the studio says two separate PSVR modes are coming to the PlayStation exclusive game at launch, which is set for later this fall.
Concrete Genie promises...
Hands-on: ‘No Man’s Sky’ in VR Promises a Galaxy Full of Possibilities, with Friends
After years of requests, No Man's Sky is coming to VR this Summer. With a massive procedurally generated galaxy to explore and a range of ways to play, the scale of No Man's Sky is something that hasn't yet...
‘Beat Saber’s’ New Free Track ‘Crab Rave’ Isn’t an April Fool’s Day Joke
Running out of fresh songs after downloading Beat Saber's first paid DLC, Monstercat Music Pack Vol. 1? Well, Beat Games just threw out a free track for their block-slashing rhythm game that should keep from getting too crabby.
The newest...
Valve Index and Knuckles Pre-orders Confirmed for May 1st, Shipping in June
Valve today confirmed to Road to VR that the company is planning a full reveal of Index on May 1st, accompanied by pre-order availability of both the headset and Knuckles controllers. The company says the actual release date of the...
Valve Teases New ‘Index’ VR Headset Coming in May
After months of speculation, Valve has finally officially confirmed a new VR headset called Index that bears the company's own name and will presumably be a first-party product. A teaser image for the headset may indicate a release date...
Everything We Know (Officially) About the FOV and IPD of Rift S & Quest
With the announcement of Rift S earlier this month came the revelation that the headset would not include the ability to physically adjust the distance between the lenses in order to align with the distance between the user's eyes...
Talespin Building Virtual Human Tech to Train Interpersonal Skills in VR
With increasing demand among employers for employees with great interpersonal communication skills, VR training company Talespin is bringing 'virtual human' training scenarios to its platform.
'Soft skills’—those that allow you to guide tense interactions with empathy and strong communication—are critical...
Following PS Aim Support, ‘Borderlands 2 VR’ Will Get All DLC for Free This Summer
Borderlands 2 VR, the PSVR exclusive port of the lauded loot shooter, was recently updated with improvements including support for the PS Aim accessory. Now developer Gearbox Software says the game's entire DLC library will be added for free...
‘Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot’ to Launch on PSVR & Steam VR Headsets in July
Bethesda quietly released the official street date for their upcoming VR game, Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, which is targeting both PSVR and Steam VR headsets.
The game is set to launch simultaneously on the PlayStation Store for PSVR and on Steam July 26th for...
Facebook’s Jason Rubin on Quest, Rift S, & the Direction of Oculus
Last week at GDC Oculus revealed their first new PC VR headset in three years, the Rift S. We sat down with Facebook's Jason Rubin, VP of AR/VR Content & Partnerships, to learn more about the strategy behind Quest and...
Social VR Hits ‘Rec Room’ and ‘VRChat’ Coming to Oculus Quest
On the run up to the headset's Spring release, Oculus today confirmed a handful of new Quest launch titles. Among them are social VR hits Rec Room and VRChat, both known for connecting players and friends across headsets and platforms.
Rec Room...
Oculus Reveals More Quest Launch Titles in Fresh Teaser Trailer
PAX East officially starts tomorrow, and to keep the Oculus Quest hypetrain chugging right along, the company today released a new video showing some of the confirmed launch titles coming to Quest in Spring 2019. Yes, there's a few...



















