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Welcoming New Members to the Road to VR Team
Today we're pleased to introduce three new members to the Road to VR team.
I'll be honest, when I started Road to VR back in October of 2011, I never thought the site would grow to where it is today...
‘Wake Up’ is a Surreal, Immersive Vive Puzzler with Killer Sound Design
Wake Up from Austrian developers Black Cell is a new, surreal subversion of the traditional puzzle and exploration genres sporting some beautiful art direction and some arresting sound design.
Many's the time I've waffled on about the importance of sound in...
Hands On: ‘The Assembly’ Offers New ‘Comfort Mode’, a Multi-Pronged Attack on Sim-Sickness
nDreams, a UK based games studio producing upcoming VR title The Assembly, are declaring war on the discomfort commonly associated with first-person VR games. We sat down with Senior Designer Jackie Tetley and Communications Manager George Kelion at Gamescom 2015...
Valve’s Gabe Newell to Address Vision VR/AR Summit Alongside Oculus, Sony and Google
The 2016 Vision VR/AR Summit focuses on immersive technologies and in its inaugural year is boasting quite a long list of luminaries as part its line up. This year, alongside addresses from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, Clay Bavor, Vice President...
Watch a Disney Animation Legend Learn to Draw in VR
In a short film exploring the evolution of storytelling, veteran Disney animator Glen Keane, creator of some of the most iconic characters of all time, steps into virtual reality to learn how to draw in virtual reality, with Tilt Brush and...
Valve: New VR Users on Steam Grew by 11% in 2021, Unique Play Sessions Up 22%
New figures directly from Valve reveal the growth of VR users on Steam in 2021.
Shared by Valve this week, the Steam 2021 Year in Review gives us some fresh official stats about VR usage on the platform.
Valve says "new...
Update: Oculus Publishes Repair Tool to Patch Debilitating Rift Error, Offers $15 Store Credit
Widespread reports of an error preventing users from launching the Oculus software that powers the headset began appearing earlier yesterday. The company has today released a repair tool that patches the error in lieu of an automatic update.
Update (03/08/18):...
Oculus Rift and Other Tech Combined to Induce Real-life Lag
Ever wonder what it's like to live with three seconds of lag in real life? An 'experiment' from Swedish ISP UME uses the Oculus Rift to show just what that would be like. It turns out that real-life lag...
PlayStation’s ‘Big Games, Big Deals’ Sale Kicks off, Including Discounts on Some Top PSVR 2 Games
PlayStation has kicked off its big 'Big Games, Big Deals' promotion today, putting a massive number of PS5 and PS4 games on deep discount. While there are only a handful of PSVR 2 and PSVR games among the lot,...
‘NCAA March Madness Live VR’ Let’s You Watch the Courtside Action for $2
The dream of watching live sports courtside from the comfort of your home through VR is steadily becoming a reality. Oculus and Intel have teamed up with Turner Sports and CBS to stream six March Madness games live in...
Hidden SteamVR Feature May be Another Clue to Valve’s Rumored Standalone VR Headset
A recent SteamVR beta release included a hidden feature that allows the user's playspace boundary to be set up in a passthrough mode which could eventually be used for existing SteamVR headsets or a future headset from Valve.
Users of...
‘Golem’ on Track for 2018 Launch, Affirms Highwire Games
Despite several delays under its belt, Golem, a unique looking VR adventure title headed to PSVR, is on track to launch in 2018, affirms developer Highwire Games.
Golem was originally due to launch on the previously delayed release date of...
Meta Quest 3S (256GB) Gets Early Holiday Sale After Being Left Out on Black Friday
For some reason the 256GB model of Quest 3S didn't get a Black Friday deal like its smaller-capacity sibling or the higher-end Quest 3. But it's the first Meta headset to see a holiday sale that runs through December...
‘Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall’ Gets Cinematic Trailer, First Glimpse of Gameplay
Carbon Studio has revealed a new cinematic trailer for its upcoming mouthful-of-a-game, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall. While the cinematic trailer doesn't show any real gameplay, the studio also offered up a brief glimpse of actual gameplay and narrowed the...
VR Chief to Explain “Google’s Vision for VR” in Hour-long Session at I/O 2016
Google have been floating at the periphery of serious commitment to virtual reality since the launch of their ultra low-cost Android Cardboard VR platform in 2014. But this year's Google I/O session schedule indicates it's about to throw some...




















