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HTC Launches Vive Focus in North America & Europe with Enterprise Emphasis

At a special event today in San Francisco, HTC announced that Vive Focus, the company's standalone 6DOF headset, is launching for enterprise customers starting today in 37 markets, including North America and Europe. Vive Focus previously launched in China back...

Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product ‘Magic Leap One’, Shipping Starts in 2018

After the long wait, Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, finally unveiled its first AR headset. Releasing first as a 'Creator Edition', the so-called 'Magic Leap One' AR headset is said to start shipping in 2018. While the company has...

Valve Adds Bugs in Latest SteamVR Update

Valve this week released the SteamVR 1.23 update which brings with it a new set of bugs. Dead bugs, that is. The latest update to SteamVR includes a curious addition... a new SteamVR Home destination that includes CT scans of...

Musical Gardening Game ‘Fujii’ Launches on PSVR Today

Funktronic Labs, the studio behind funky real-time strategy game Cosmic Trip (2017), launched their latest VR project back in May that brought its so-called "creative gardening” app to PC VR headsets and Oculus Quest. Now PSVR users can get in...

Google’s Project Starline Starts Real-world Testing, Bringing Light-field Video Calls to Enterprise Partners

Google's Project Starline is an experimental system for immersive video chatting that aims to close the distance between people without needing an AR or VR headset. At Google's annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced it's rolling out the...

Leap Motion’s New 180-degree Hand-tracking Comes to Qualcomm’s Latest VRDK Headset

Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion's new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during...
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‘Dick Wilde 2’ to Bring Cross-platform Co-op to PSVR, Rift & Vive Next Month

Bolvërk Games and PlayStack released word today that a new sequel to their VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde (2017) is slated to launch sometime in February. The sequel, dubbed Dick Wilde 2, promises to bring cross-platform online co-op, more boss fights, levels,...

Microsoft on VR for Xbox One X: ‘PC is Where we’re focusing on [VR] this year’

Though the company initially proclaimed that the Xbox One X (formerly known as 'Project Scorpio') would feature VR support, at E3 this week Microsoft is distancing itself from that commitment. An official statement provided to Road to VR suggests...

5 Million PlayStation VR Units Sold, Sony Announces

Despite the growing age of PlayStation VR, Sony has continued to effectively market and sell the headset, leading to steady sales which have now reached 5 million units total, the company has announced. Sony Interactive Entertainment said today that its...

Quest New Year’s Game Sale Keeps the Discounts Rolling on Top VR Titles

Missed the Quest Winter Sale? Meta is offering up another opportunity to nab more paid Quest games on the cheap, including game bundles and a ton of top VR games. The Quest 'Celebrate 2023 Sale' is going from now until...

HTC Announces VIVEcon Event on May 11th & 12th, Teases Headset Reveal

Following subsequent teases of an unannounced Vive headset, HTC today announced an event called VIVEcon, set for May 11th & 12th. While there's no details so far on what the event will entail, the company is clearly teasing the...

VR Tabletop Gaming Platform ‘Dungeon Full Dive’ Completes Kickstarter with $285K

Dungeon Full Dive is an upcoming tabletop gaming platform that aims to bring PC and PC VR players together online to play their favorite role-playing games. Now its month-long Kickstarter campaign is over, garnering the team over $285,000 to...

Meta Now Requires Mandatory Age Confirmation on Quest Headsets

Meta announced it's adding an obligatory age confirmation feature on the Quest platform, which in addition to asking you for your real birthday, could also put up a hard barrier on younger users accessing apps that aren't age appropriate. Within...

GoPro ‘Odyssey’ VR Camera Priced at $15,000, First Shipments to Select Creators in November

GoPro has today announced the final name and price for their forthcoming VR camera. The 'Odyssey', which will make use of Google's 'Jump' spherical video assembler, has been priced at $15,000. The company has opened a 'Limited Access Program'...

‘Shapelab’ 3D Modeling App Launches on Quest in Early Access

Leopoly, the studio behind PC VR modeling software Shapelab (2023), has launched a new version built specifically for Quest headsets. Called Shapelab Lite, the polygon-based 3D modeling app is now in early access for Quest 3, Quest 3S and Quest...
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