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‘Traffic Jams’ Lets You Control Traffic, Help Pedestrians & Kill Zombies

On the surface, Traffic Jams looks like a pretty standard job simulator-type game, albeit with some pretty funny ragdoll citizens ambling around and smashing through windshields. In a new gameplay teaser though, the Netherlands-based studio Little Chicken Game Company is peeling...

Facebook Launches New Camera Tools as a Foundation for Advanced Augmented Reality

F8, Facebook's yearly developer conference, is here again for a two-day info blast from the world's biggest social platform. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today during the keynote address to announce a new initiative that will...

Meta Quest Gets Unreal Engine 5 Support Minus Two Headlining Features

Meta is transitioning its support from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.1 for apps built for the Quest platform. Two of the engine's headlining features aren't designed for mobile though, so it's doubtful we we'll ever see them...

8 Wild Oculus ‘Medium’ Creations from Connect

Oculus Medium, the company's new 3D VR sculpting app revealed at this year's Connect, allows anyone to create clay-like works of art from the very simple to the frighteningly realistic with a few swipes of Oculus Touch hand controllers. But don't...

You Can Now Buy Valve Index Controller & Tether Replacements

Accidentally breaking a motion controller or finding out your all-important headset cable has been chewed through by a pet can ruin anyone's day, especially for a device as costly as Valve Index. Now Valve has made replacements controllers and...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #2

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. 10. REPSOL Offshore VR Did you ever fly on a helicopter to an...

‘PosiTTron’ DIY Oculus Rift Positional Tracking Addon Prototype

This guest article is written by Jordi Batallé, who has been hard at work over the last few months developing a DIY positional tracking solution for head mounted displays (HMDs / VR headsets). Batallé is a virtual reality enthusiast who holds...

‘Among Us VR’ Sells 1 Million Units Across Quest 2 & PC VR Headsets

The team behind the VR adaptation of popular party game Among Us announced it's officially gone platinum, selling over 1 million copies across all platforms. Recreating viral flatscreen titles in VR seems to be a potent recipe for success, as Among...

Eden River HD Developer Teases Samsung Gear VR Projects with New Screenshots

Aaron Lemke, the developer behind audio-visual virtual reality experiences like Eden River HD and Opera Nova, has provided Road to VR with some new teaser screenshots of upcoming projects that are targeted at the Samsung Gear VR headset. Lemke...

‘Überläufer’ is a Wolfenstein-inspired Roguelike Coming to PC VR This Fall

Überläufer is an upcoming roguelike dungeon crawler for PC VR that's inspired by the original Castle Wolfenstein (1981), the first in the series which put a heavy emphasis on stealthily evading capture as you escape the game's maze-like prison. Created by indie studio Think...

InstaVR Pulls in $2 Million for Simple VR App Publishing Platform

Platforms continue to lead the charge in VR funding as InstaVR lands a $2 million series A investment led by The VR Fund. InstaVR aims to offer dead-simple VR app creation, allowing non-developers to easily piece together 360 degree photos...

HTC Reveals Full Vive Focus 3 Teardown Ahead of June 27th Release

In preparation for its June 27th ship date, HTC released a full teardown of its latest enterprise-focused standalone, Vive Focus 3. Shen Ye, HTC Vive Head of Global Hardware Products, takes us through the whole dismantling process, something that he...

Scientists Build an Itty-bitty VR Headset to Better Study Mice

Researchers at Cornell University have developed 'MouseGoggles', a miniature VR headset with eye-tracking for mice, which was used to study complex behaviors during neural recordings. Traditional small-animal VR systems have been limited by their size, immersivity, and lack of advanced...

Jaunt to Liquidate Tons of VR Stuff in Online Auction Soon

It's no secret that Jaunt is stepping back from VR and re-focusing on AR, although we weren't sure what the one-time cinematic VR company planned on doing with its recently defunct VR business. Now, it's come to light that...

Totem VR Headset Kickstarter Launches Tomorrow, Hands-on and Interview Coming Soon

Last week we met with Vrvana, formerly 'True Player Gear', for our first hands-on with the Totem VR headset. We've got a juicy interview on the way with Vrvana CEO, Bert Nepveu. The company launches a Kickstarter campaign for their headset...
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