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Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All Freely Available

During a session at Oculus Connect, the company released the totality of the Oculus Rift DK1 plans to the public. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints of the company's first VR headset and even...

Valve Reveals Timeline of Vive Prototypes, We Chart it For You

Welcome to Valve's Steam VR Mini-museum Virtual reality is still in its infancy. Many hard problems are being worked through and thus, the hardware to deliver compelling VR experiences is still evolving. Anyone who's followed the VR space for a while...

‘Demeo’ is Getting ‘Roots of Evil’ Campaign DLC on December 16th

Demeo (2021), the VR tabletop dungeon crawler from Resolution Games, is getting a new campaign soon called 'Roots of Evil'. Demeo is a four-player co-op game that pits a party of adventures against various baddies and one very powerful end boss. Now...

Physics-based Combat Sim ‘Swordsman’ Coming to Oculus Quest Next Year

Swordsman (2020), the physics-based combat sim for PSVR and PC VR headsets, is bringing its bloody sandbox battles to Oculus Quest at some point next year. Developers Sinn Studio announced in a recent tweet that Swordsman is slated to arrive on...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #3

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. Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of...

Google Glass “Graduates” from Google[x], New Dedicated Team Teases ‘Glass 2’

Google has recently announced the discontinuation (or as they put it, "graduation") of its beta phase wearable, Google Glass. As Glass 2 is teased by its (now dedicated) team, Google's investment in secretive 'cinematic reality' company, Magic Leap, has us scratching...

Acer Has Cancelled its ConceptD OJO Headset

With no information some 10 months after the announcement of its latest VR headset, the ConceptD OJO, we started to wonder what had come of the device. After reaching out to the company, Acer has confirmed to Road to VR that...

Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View

Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company's next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. Microsoft is coming strong out of the gate with its fleet of partners as well as a number of in-house...

Hands-on: ‘Iron Man VR’ Shows Huge Potential with Innovative Flying Mechanics

I have to say, when I first saw the announce trailer for Marvel's Iron Man VR, I wasn't exactly blown away. Now that I've actually had a chance to try the game for myself, my tune has totally changed—there's...

‘Blood & Truth’ Update Adds Hard Mode and Skeet Challenge Mini-games

Following an update earlier this summer which added a New Game+ mode, mini-game challenges, and online leaderboards, a new Blood & Truth update today adds a Hard Mode, a handful of new shooting challenges, and some new trophies for completionists...

VorpX Oculus Rift Driver Creator Ralf Ostertag Speaks to Road To VR

VorpX is a new, commercial 3D driver which promises to unlock the virtual reality potential in your existing games library. We talk to its creator, Ralf Ostertag, to find out more. "On the personal level, I'm -- of course --...

Warner Bros Announces New ‘Matrix’ Movie Directed by ‘The Martian’ Screenwriter Drew Goddard

Warner Bros. announced that The Matrix, one of the biggest film franchises to popularize virtual reality, is getting a fifth installment. The film, which doesn't have a release date yet, is set to be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Drew Goddard,...

Mother Meets Recreation of Her Deceased Child in VR

South Korean TV broadcaster MBC recently aired a Korean language documentary that centers on a family's loss of their young daughter, seven-year-old Nayeon. Using the power of photogrammetry, motion capture, and virtual reality, the team recreated Nayeon for one...
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REWIND Spins BBC ‘Strictly’ into 360 Degree Video

REWIND, the UK based VR digital production company, were commissioned by the BBC to record one of the UK's biggest shows in immersive, VR friendly video, the first of its kind for a mainstream BBC show. Whilst the demographics of this...
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Preview: ‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive

Matthew Magee gets active and takes a swing at the new futuristic VR sports featuring heavy classic arcade influences for the HTC Vive, Racket: Nx. I’ve always felt that there’s an innate satisfaction in hitting things with other things, as much...
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