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Spherica’s Hardware-stabilized Rig Makes VR Camera Movement More Practical
Every time I've ever been shown a piece of 360 video content with an improperly aligned horizon, I've wondered to myself why it seems like no one is using hardware-stabilization. Then I saw Spherica's custom-built 360 camera rig which...
First Impressions of Project Beyond, Samsung’s 360 3D Camera for VR
In a surprise announcement at SDC, Samsung revealed Project Beyond, a 360 degree 3D camera for filming virtual reality content. We got to take a look at the unit first hand and experience the VR video that it captures.
Project Beyond...
Sony: “Nearly All PSVR Titles Will Support DualShock 4 Controllers”
Sony is gearing up for the PlayStation VR's launch this October, but you shouldn't be boxing up your DualShock 4 gamepad in favor of the Move motion controller just yet. According to a statement from Sony issued to Eurogamer, you'll be able use the...
Developer Makes VR Accessible to Physically Disabled with Custom Locomotion Driver
WalkinVR is an upcoming driver for SteamVR designed to assist physical movement in a VR by moving or even resizing the virtual space relative to the user. It is currently in beta testing, with an initial release due at...
New AMD Driver Adds Spacewarp & Reprojection to More Radeon GPUs
Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp rendering technology is designed to smooth out the VR experience by making dropped frames a thing of the past. The tech rolled out several months ago, but some of AMD's older Radeon GPUs didn't get support...
Microsoft Says New Surface Studio is VR Ready(ish)
Announced just last week, Microsoft's Surface Studio all-in-one computer has been met with excitement and touted as an example of the company's new approach to innovation. With a mobile GPU on board, you shouldn't expect to be able to...
SteamVR Tracking HDK Now Available for Anyone to Buy
Valve is increasingly opening its SteamVR Tracking technology—that which powers the HTC Vive's room-scale tracking—to the world. The royalty-free system requires no permission from Valve to be embedded and launched as part of third-party products. And now one of...
Zotac Has an Untethered VR PC Solution for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
Small form factor PC specialist Zotac are about to enter the virtual reality hardware race with a nifty solution to your tethered, cable-lugging room-scale VR woes; A portable PC that can be strapped to your back.
Consumer virtual reality is...
First All-in-one VR Headsets Based on Qualcomm’s VRDK Expected in 2H 2017
Qualcomm's latest VRDK headset is a reference design that the company has positioned to act as a foundation for consumer electronics makers to create their own headsets based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon VR hardware. Now with manufacturing partners on board,...
Samsung Gear VR Detailed Review: Part One – Design Comparison to Oculus Rift DK2
We've been fortunate to get our hands on the highly anticipated Samsung Gear VR headset and we've got a full breakdown of the unit's in's and out's. This is one you don't want to miss.
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HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about...
Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved.
Despite copious concept videos showing...
Magic Leap CEO: “We have made something that is small, mobile, powerful, and we think pretty...
Magic Leap is a mystery. Parsing through their pre-factual, post-cool ad campaign leaves you with the impression that the brains at the company have created the next be-all and end-all of augmented reality devices thanks to an ingenious light field...
‘Sairento VR’ Mashes Up SUPERHOT & Raw Data for Something Even Cooler
Sairento VR is a new made-for-VR first person action game which manages to distil everything that was cool about SUPERHOT VR, Raw Data and adds its own locomotion system for something which promises to be even cooler than either of...
Hands-on with Avegant’s Impressive Virtual Retinal HMD and Interview with CEO
Avegant is creating a unique head mounted display that uses an impressive virtual retinal display, a screen-less technology that projects an image directly onto your retina. After trying the Avegant HMD for myself, I sat down with CEO Edward...
E3 2014: First Look ‒ GameFace Labs Mark 5 Prototype, VR Never Looked So Good
I just got my head out of 2.5k VR and it was beautiful.
Road to VR today got the first glimpse at GameFace Lab's newest 'Mark 5' prototype. The unit features a completely new design from what we've seen in...

















