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Microsoft Reveals ‘Project XRay’ HoloLens Gameplay
On stage at Microsoft's Windows 10 event today, the company showed gameplay of Project Xray, a mixed reality shooter for HoloLens which has players using a "wearable hologram" to blast aliens that are bursting out of walls.
Using a specially...
Applications for HoloLens Developer Edition Open to US and Canada-based Devs
At today's Windows 10 device event, Microsoft executive VP of operating systems Terry Myerson took to the stage to release date and price info for the developer edition of HoloLens, the company's untethered AR headset.
Applications for the developer edition of HoloLens are...
Now Playing: Kent Bye’s ‘Voices of VR’ Podcast Comes to Road to VR
We're excited to announce that the Voices of VR podcast by Kent Bye will now be syndicated through Road to VR. Kent began his journey in May, 2014, seeking to catalog the insights of experts working in the core of the virtual...
VR Launchpad Deadline Extended to Wednesday – Apply Now for Your Chance to Pitch in the...
VR Launchpad, presented by SVVR and Road to VR, is the startup showcase for virtual reality companies. Applications for startups and entrepreneurs have been extended to October 7th. Apply today for an invitation to pitch before a crowd of investors...
Microsoft Teases “Exciting” HoloLens News at Windows 10 Device Event Tomorrow
Microsoft have just dropped word of a special Windows 10 event focussing on devices built around the new OS, stating that "We have some exciting news to share", seemingly about their augmented reality device, HoloLens.
It's been a little while since...
Sony to Give ‘PlayStation VR’ Keynote at UK’s VRTGO Conference, November 12th
It's perhaps easy to forget that Project Morpheus, now known as PlayStation VR, would be 'just another VR headset' were it not for the vision and talent of Sony's UK game developers and designers. It's appropriate then that they're now...
‘DeathTolls’ VR Experience Creates Chilling Visualizations of Human Loss from Disasters Worldwide
DeathTolls VR experience is a chilling visualization of the enormity of human loss created through various violent conflicts and disasters throughout the world, and aims to help quantify this loss by presenting the user with a field of the deceased.
Death caused by...
The NFL Teases More Interest in VR Technology in Second ‘NFL Next’ Video
The NFL seems to be acquainting itself with the idea of VR in their new video for NFL Next, the association's name for the bevy of technology they're adopting to help revolutionize the game. The second promo reel was released...
Half-Life 2 City 17 Area Re-created in Unreal Engine 4 with Oculus Rift Support
There are few games which stir gaming passions or memories as strong as Half-Life 2. Valve's Source Engine powered sequel was a masterpiece of emergent first person shooter design and ushered in a new era of gaming for many. Well,...
I Have One Word For You: ‘Holograms’
In another in a series of articles, Noah Nelson reports from the annual Online News Association's meeting and ponders the future of virtual reality journalism, and it's probably not holograms (at least not yet).
Noah Nelson (@noahjnelson) is the head...
Former Oculus Engineering VP Teases ‘Reverse Lighthouse’ Tracking System That Can Fit in a Smartphone
Jack McCauley worked as VP of Engineering at Oculus, joining the company in the early days back in 2012. No longer with the company but continuing on with various engineering projects, McCauley is teasing some Lighthouse-like tracking technology that he...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #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.
Follow the story of Null as he embarks on an epic adventure;...
Preview: ‘Smash Hit’ for Gear VR is a Futuristic, Glass-breaking Gaze Shooter
Smash Hit is a gaze-based shooter from Mediocre Games that has you breaking glass barriers in a futuristic, but deceptively simple environment. Use your glass-smashing metal orbs wisely, because when you run out, that's the end of your forward journey through the...
Oculus May Have Something in Store for Their 2012 Kickstarter Backers as the Consumer Rift Launches
At Oculus Connect 2015 I sat down with Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey to learn more about the latest at the conference and the impending launch of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift. Although the company's 2012 Kickstarter seems...
The First Oculus Rift Has Rolled off the Production Line
At Oculus Connect 2015, key members of the teams responsible for designing and manufacturing the consumer Oculus Rift took to the stage to talk about the process of creating a headset for mass production. It was revealed that the first...




















