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E3 2015 Will Mark Three Years of Incredible VR Progress

Arguably the games industry's most important annual event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 begins in LA next week. As the final E3 before the retail release of three major virtual reality headsets from Oculus, Sony, and Valve/HTC, we take...

“World’s First Virtual Reality Painting Exhibiton” Takes Place 12-13th June, Presented by Tilt Brush

Tilt Brush, the made-for-VR painting program that lets you create anything and everything with the stroke of a virtual brush, have announced "the world's first VR painting exhibition" to take place June 12-13th, 2015 in San Francisco. Skillman & Hackett,...

Closeup with the HTC Vive Developer Edition Headset for SteamVR

The first Vive Developer Edition headsets and controllers for SteamVR are arriving and Owlchemy Labs have been kind enough to provide us with high resolution shots of the system, including the new wireless Lighthouse tracked controllers. The road to consumer...

Valve ‘Vive’ Developer Edition Kits Have Arrived – First Unboxing Images Appear

Valve’s first ‘Vive’ Developer Edition VR headsets and controllers are now shipping and some lucky devs already have them. We take an early look inside the box. Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in March this year,...

Augmented World Expo 2015 8-10 June to Feature Over 200 AR and VR Industry Pioneers

The 2015 AWE (Augmented World Expo) is around the corner and it's set to feature over 200 companies that are blazing trails in the augmented and virtual reality industry. Better yet, Road to VR readers get 50% off the...

2 VR Gloves Promising Haptic Feedback, 2 Very Different Approaches

There's a coming tide of VR peripherals on the horizon, and haptic gloves represent a compact, and (relatively) cost-efficient solution among the multi-pronged challenge that is VR input. While infrared depth cameras like Leap Motion and Microsoft Kinect can facilitate...

Oculus Mobile VR Jam Winners Announced, Taking Home $1 Million in Prizes

Oculus today announced the winners of the Mobile VR Jam, a contest that saw some of the most innovative games and experiences targeted at the Gear VR platform. Divided among two tracks—Games and Apps/Experiences—more than 300 entries made exclusively for the...

Google Tango Dev Contest Includes AR/VR Track and $95,000 in Prize Money

Project Tango is Google's computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by...
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VR Stunt Flyer ‘Faceted Flight’ Preview, Kickstarter Now Live and Demo Available

Faceted Flight is a crowdfunded VR Stunt Flyer that's packed with style, offering a gameplay experience that recalls classic 16-bit titles such as Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Star Fox (1993), and Pilotwings (1991). The game's Kickstarter campaign just went live, so we take a...
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Oculus Reveals Second Made-for-VR Film – ‘Henry’, the Hedgehog Who Just Wants a Hug

Oculus has revealed their second VR film project from Story Studio, the company's internal CG film studio. The VR film is called Henry and is based on a lovable but folly-prone cartoon hedgehog. As a hedgehog, Henry is anything but huggable, even if that's the...

VR Developer Reload Studios Picks up $2 Million Investment

Reload Studios, a VR development studio formed by former Call of Duty developers, has announced that they've received a $2 million investment from World Innovation Lab. World Innovation Lab is a tech investment firm based in Silicon Valley and Tokyo....
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Behind-the-scenes With Google’s New Live-action 360 Short Film ‘Help’

During ATAP's presentation at this year's Google I/O, the in-house skunkworks debuted HELP, a new live-action 360 monster movie made in collaboration with The Mill and Star Trek 3 director Justin Lin. Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) has recently debuted HELP, a made-for-VR 360...

nVidia Launches GTX 980ti GPU Targeting Virtual Reality and 4k Gaming

nVidia has launched the first salvo in the impending VR GPU wars as it launched it's newest graphics card, the GTX 980ti. The message from the GPU giant is clear: if you're a gamer interested in either 4k or...

VRLA Summer Expo and 2015 Proto Awards Dates Announced

The Virtual Reality Foundation have announced dates for both the VRLA Summer Expo and the 2015 Proto Awards today. We take a look at what to expect from the events. The Virtual Reality Foundation, a non-profit consortium comprising professionals from the...

nVidia Announces ‘Gameworks VR’ to Launch Alongside New GTX 980ti GPU

nVidia, who has been making noises on the virtual reality front for a while now, has announced that they're to launch 'Gameworks VR' to "help VR headset and game developers build incredible experiences on GeForce GPUs". nVidia has been talking up...
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