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New Smartphone-tethered Qualcomm Headset Has 2x the Pixels of Vive Pro

This week at CES 2019 Qualcomm is showing off a new VR reference headset sporting impressive new displays that may well define the next wave of VR headsets. Qualcomm has been a somewhat silent enabler of most of the recent...

Audi-founded Startup to Bring VR to Passengers Looking for Relief from Boredom & Motion Sickness

Using VR in the car sounds like a great way to kill some time on long road trips, but there's a few factors that may stop you from strapping a headset to your face while in the passenger's seat—namely...

Oculus Rift + Touch Now Permanently Priced at $350

After Oculus' big Black Friday sale, which saw Rift & Touch temporarily cut from its regular price of $400 to $350, Oculus now says they're permanently dropping the price of the bundle to just $350. We expect to see the...
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Dell Found a Cool Way to Use Your Smartphone in VR, But Only on Specific Dell...

Dell launched Mobile Connect this time last year, letting some Dell & Alienware PC users view and interact with their phone’s notifications and apps on traditional monitors. Now, the company has unveiled a way to bring that same functionality...

Pimax Showing Production Headsets, Controllers, and More at CES

At CES 2019 this week, Pimax is showing off the production versions of their "8K" and "5K" Plus headsets, their upcoming Knuckles-style controllers, as well as hand-tracking and eye-tracking modules. Pimax has begun delivering its ultrawide crowd-funded "8K" and "5K"...

HTC Confirms Vive Cosmos Will Support OpenVR/SteamVR

HTC might have given a first look at their new Vive Cosmos headset today, but they weren't ready to offer many details. The headset is said to be compatible with tether to a PC, but the company also teased...

HTC Teases Smartphone Capability With Vive Cosmos

Vive Cosmos is HTC's newly unveiled PC VR headset that's slated to release sometime this year. While it's a tethered device meant to support PCs at launch, HTC teased that it could also be driven by a smartphone. At its...

HTC Announces Vive Pro Eye Headset With Integrated Eye-tracking

Today at CES HTC made a slew of announcements about the Vive ecosystem, including a new, upcoming version of the Vive Pro called the Vive Pro Eye. Revealed on stage today at the company's CES press event, the Vive Pro...

Insta360 Opens Reservations for Professional 11K VR Camera ‘Titan’

Insta360, the manufacturers behind consumer & professional VR cameras, today opened reservations for the Titan, a professional-level 11K VR camera for 360 video and photos. The Titan includes a number of shooting modes including 11K monoscopic at 30 fps, 10K...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU Priced at $350, Launching January 15th

Having previously launched the high-end versions of their new GeForce RTX cards in the middle of last year, NVIDIA today announced that the entry-level RTX 2060 will launch next week priced at $350. NVIDIA has made a big deal about...

NVIDIA Claims 4 Million PC VR Headsets Sold

NVIDIA co-founder & CEO Jensen Huang took the stage today at the company's CES 2019 press conference, issuing a strong claim that four million PC VR headsets have been sold to date. Update (January 7th, 2019): Nvidia told Road to...

2018 Ends With a Record Number of VR Headsets on Steam

According to latest set of data from Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the number of VR headsets on Steam has reached a new record. Meanwhile, the Vive Pro and Windows VR headsets have reached new peaks in...

‘Pokémon GO’ Studio Niantic Raises $190M Series C Financing

Niantic, the company behind the hit location-based mobile game Pokémon GO, have closed a $190.6 million Series C financing round, bringing the company's overall funding to more than $415 million to date. As first reported by Tech Crunch, documents filed with the...

Slightly Mad Studios: ‘Mad Box console to deliver 90 fps to VR headsets’

Slightly Mad Studios, the creators of the Project CARS franchise, announced earlier this week that they're developing a VR-compatible gaming console called 'Mad Box'. In a follow-up tweet, company CEO Ian Bell dubbed the project “the most powerful console ever built,”...

HTC Teases New Vive Gear to be Revealed at CES Next Week

Last year HTC teased the VR world ahead of CES 2018 about what would become the announcement of the Vive Pro. Now the company is at it again, promising "new gear" that will be revealed at CES 2019 next...
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