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Oculus Home’s Big Update Will Only Be Semi-social to Start
At Connect 4 earlier this month, Oculus announced a major overhaul of their VR hub space, Oculus Home—the virtual bedrock where players find themselves when they aren't inside of a VR game or app. The new space promises to...
‘Job Simulator’ Gets ‘Infinite Job Overtime’ Update & Permanent Price of $20
Job Simulator (2016), Owlchemy Labs' madcap workplace sim from the future, is pushing a free content update called 'Infinite Overtime mode' that lets you play endless, randomized tasks. Owlchemy is also permanently dropping the price of Job Simulator to $20.
Now...
‘PAYDAY 2 VR’ Beta Launches November 16th, Free to All Owners
PAYDAY 2, the multiplayer bank-heist game by Overkill Software, is soon to get full VR support as PAYDAY 2 VR, which will also allow VR and non-VR players to play together.
Update (10/23/17): Payday developer Overkill Software hosted a Q&A on...
Community Fallout from UploadVR’s Harassment Settlement, and Bearing Witness to Testimony
The sexual harassment lawsuit against UploadVR was reported to be settled via Tech Crunch on September 6th, and a week later the New York Times followed with more details about how Upload had been barely dented. The case was...
Lytro Announces VR Light Field Rendering Software ‘Volume Tracer’
Lytro, the once consumer-facing light field camera company which has recently pivoted to create high-end production tools, has announced a light field rendering software for VR that essentially aims to free developers from the current limitations of real-time rendering. The company...
LG’s Upcoming SteamVR Headset Could Be Named ‘UltraGear’
Earlier this year, Valve confirmed that LG was developing a VR headset utilizing SteamVR Tracking, making it one of the first headsets to do so outside of HTC Vive and the upcoming Pimax "8K" VR headset. While still unnamed...
Fujitsu is Making a Windows VR Headset Too, Arrival in Japan Expected Late November
It looks like Fujitsu is adding its name to the list of OEMs producing Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets, which currently include the likes of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung.
Fujitsu's unnamed headset follows the same reference design...
Valve Brings VR-Native Media Player to SteamVR in Latest Beta Update
SteamVR's latest update to its beta branch is bringing along with it a Media Player that allows users to browse, preview and view a number of local media files directly in VR, including traditional video/photo formats as well as 180/360 degree content.
Navigable both...
‘Echo Arena’ Free Download Extended to November 1st, Ghoulish Halloween Makeover Starts Today
Echo Arena (2017), the futuristic multiplayer sports game from Ready at Dawn and Oculus Studios, is getting into the holiday spirit with an upcoming seasonal Halloween Bash that looks to be a devilishly fun time—a great incentive to get more people...
‘Dark Souls’-inspired VR Adventure ‘Left-Hand Path’ Exits Steam Early Access on November 10th
Left-Hand Path is a Dark Souls-inspired single-player VR adventure developed by Strange Company. The studio recently announced that the spell-casting RPG, which promises 15+ hours of content, is heading out of Early Access November 10th.
Launching out of a year-long stint on Steam...
‘The Gallery – Ep. 2 : Heart of the Emberstone’ Review – Longer, Stronger and Well...
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (2017) comes a year and a half after Call of the Starseed (2016), episode one in the narrative-based adventure puzzle game series. As a successor to one of the first room-scale games in existence, the...
Valve Says New Calibration Software Makes Lower-Cost LCD Panels Viable for High-End VR
New SteamVR optical technologies now available to VR hardware manufacturers includes the use of both LCD and OLED custom panels. According to the press release provided to Road to VR, Valve’s work with display manufacturers and recent advancements in...
Acer Windows VR Headset Review
Microsoft's 'Windows Mixed Reality' platform has finally landed and the first batch of supported VR headsets are hitting the streets. I toured around the new Windows Fall Creators Update—which builds AR and VR support deep into the OS—with the...
Felix & Paul’s VR Comedy Series ‘The Confessional’ Launches on Daydream and YouTube
Felix & Paul Studios, the Emmy award-winning VR film producers, and the Just For Laughs comedy festival have launched the first episode of a new VR video project called The Confessional, a seven-episode comedy series available on Daydream and YouTube.
The 3D, 360-degree VR...
Adobe Premiere Pro Now Includes VR Editing Interface ‘Project CloverVR’
Adobe’s VR editing interface for Premiere Pro is now available as part of this week’s Creative Cloud release. Project CloverVR is optimised for editing immersive media within Premiere while wearing a VR headset.
Revealed at the annual creativity conference Adobe...


















