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Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR
There's no doubt that what Oculus and Samsung managed to achieve with the mobile Gear VR headset is impressive, but one aspect, positional tracking, lags far behind desktop VR headsets. Oculus CTO John Carmack has affirmed his team's focus...
‘Oculus Ready’ PC and Headset Bundle Pre-orders Coming Feb 16th
Oculus today revealed more information on their Oculus Ready PC lineup, and announced that PC and headset bundle pre-orders will begin February 16th.
Oculus announced that starting February 16 at 8am PT (click here for local time), you'll be able...
Developing Coop VR Games with Remote Presence Using the HTC Vive and Kinect
After featuring their new experiment which used the HTC Vive and Microsoft Kinect to the physical image of 2 players into virtual worlds remotely, we wanted to know more about how developers Jasper Brekelmans and Jeroen de Mooij had pulled it...
Google’s Unannounced VR Headset Will Launch This Year, Report Suggests
Late last month we spotted Google job postings that heavily pointed toward the company developing its own high-end mobile VR headset. Now a new report from Financial Times indicates the company plans to launch the headset this year.
Google's Cardboard...
New Gear VR Games and Apps – February Week #1
Got a Samsung Gear VR? Hungry for new games and experiences? We're rounding up the week's Oculus Store releases for fans of the mobile VR platform. This week: space combat action with Cosmos Warfare, explore the world in VR...
‘DCS World’ Flight Simulator Gets Improved Oculus Rift Support
DCS World is one of the few remaining hardcore PC flight simulators with a major emphasis on attention to detail. I remember when a friend of mine announced excitedly that he had mastered the aircraft start-up procedure for the A10...
VRLO 3.0 Event Wrap-Up Features Autodesk, Bossa Studios, HammerheadVR and More
VRLO is a London based VR event which celebrated its third outing in December, bigger and better than ever before. Road to VR's Jonathan Tustain was there to report from the show. Here's a nifty wrap-up tour featuring a collection...
WEVR Unveils ‘Transport’ VR Content Network, Announces Over $25M Investment
Wevr today unveiled Transport, a new VR content distribution platform that they hope will allow developers easier access to a broader market. To that, Wevr announced the results of an investment made by some big names in VR, amounting to the tune of $25M.
Wevr is a virtual...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #1
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.
Take a thrilling ride through the colorful city on the beach on...
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...
AltspaceVR is Now Available for Gear VR
Social VR platform AltspaceVR today announced the general release of their Gear VR app—now making their software cross-compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Not too long ago, AltspaceVR only allowed users into their social platform for special 'beta weekends' where anyone could mingle, browse webpages or watch...
Microsoft Teases the Future of the Super Bowl with HoloLens
Microsoft has splashed out on a promotional video designed to demonstrate its vision of a Super Bowl future, augmented by its untethered, augmented reality headset HoloLens, demonstrating how it could used in the home to enhance the football viewing experience.
Microsoft's HoloLens...
‘Ai Weiwei 360’ is an In-Depth Tour of the Artist’s Most Important Works
The works of Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei have been featured in exhibitions all around the world, and now you can step into the mind of the man himself with the new Ai Weiwei 360 experience.
The stereoscopic 3D tour is...
7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick
You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put...
Live Boxing Match Shows Us the Sweet Spot for Virtual Reality Broadcasting
We've seen VR live broadcasting company NextVR cover a range of sports and events, but its latest gig livestreaming a Premier Boxing Champions event was one of the best use-cases we've seen yet for the nascent technology.
It was a matchup...




















