Backed with support from NASA, the development of Mars 2030 is underscored by a singular mission: do everything possible to make the player feel like they're actually on Mars. And that, apparently, means starting with a massive, detailed recreation of...

The folks over at iFixit have taken the shiny new Oculus Rift consumer VR headset and pulled it apart to find out exactly what's inside. Among a look at the headset's IR LED placement and circuit boards, we get...

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. https://youtu.be/sAiZfBJvY5g Explore an abandoned dragon planet by moving around platforms and going through...

The makers of VR Cover and Gauss Eyewear today announced their newest crowdfunding project which aims to deliver specially-made prescription lens holders for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Much like their previous Gear VR lens campaign, VR Lens Lab has...

Steven Schkolne tells us why he's returning to his immersive creativity roots with his latest VR "passion project" 3dSunshine - a tool he says will let gamers edit and enhance their favourite games in virtual reality. Steven Schkolne is a...

VideoStitch, the company behind the eponymous 360 post-production software suite, today announced their first 360 camera, the Orah 4i. The all-in-one solution aims to take the hassle out of creating 360 videos by automatically stitching and transmitting them live...

At GTC 2016 this week, NVIDIA's Vice President of Graphics Research demonstrated a novel prototype display running at an incredibly high refresh rate, all but eliminating perceptible latency. Update (4/6/16, 11:08AM PT): An earlier version of this story transposed '17,000Hz'...

Valve is pushing the HTC Vive in full force today—no surprise considering it's the official launch day of the SteamVR-compatible headset. Adding to proclamation that "VR is here," which is smack dab on Steam's front page that nearly tens of...

NVIDIA at GTC 2016 today has announced Iray VR, a virtual reality adaptation of their Iray ray-tracing engine. The company says it enables "breakthrough photoreal". On stage CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed a quick demo of the rendering technology in action. Iray...

It's GTC 2016 week and NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang takes to the stage at 9:00AM for an opening keynote that will discuss how the GPU intersects artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. Join us here for the livestream. GTC...

We go hands on with Valve and HTC’s new room-scale virtual reality system the Vive and discover that with incredible VR experiences come great real estate requirements. We’ve been reporting on virtual reality since 2011 here at Road to VR, and it’s...

The HTC Vive is here, and we're finally allowed to show you The Lab, Valve's Portal-themed playground of VR demos that gives you a beautifully cohesive tour of what's possible with room-scale VR. To get a better look at just what it had...

Fantastic Contraption, a building game from Northway Games, is launching tomorrow alongside the HTC Vive, and you'd be forgiven if you're caught drooling over the newest peek into the studio's mixed reality gameplay teaser. We know we are. Twitch streamers may have noticed...

Lenovo revealed at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) their new line of Nvidia certified VR Ready computers, the company's next step in VR dedicated hardware. And if you're thinking of getting your hands on the new line of ThinkStations—the P910, P710, and P510—you...

At GTC 2016 next week, NVIDIA Research will take to the stage to explore "computational display" prototypes for next-generation fidelity and form-factors in VR and AR headsets. David Luebke, NVIDIA's Vice President of Graphics Research, at GTC 2016 next week will...