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‘Marble Mountain’ Fuses Retro Arcade Gameplay with VR Immersion
Lightning Rock is a small development company based in Australia who are working on a retro inspired action puzzler called Marble Mountain who's Steam Greenlight campaign is currently doing rather well.
If you take Atari arcade classic Marble Madness and mash...
Proto Awards Nominees Announced, Jonah Ray to Host September Award Ceremony in Hollywood
The 2015 Proto Awards are just around the corner and the VRF, the organization running the show, has announced the nominees. Comedian Jonah Ray has been selected as the host of the award ceremony.
Following an impressively executed inaugural award show...
Hands On: KartKraft VR Experience Revealed at Gamescom 2015
KartKraft, a go-kart sim created by Melbourne based games studio Black Delta, revealed VR-compatibility at Gamescom 2015 for their upcoming title. I had a chance to hop into their 6-degree-of-freedom hexapod motion simulator to race along a laser-scanned, virtual version of Geelong...
Kat Walk VR Treadmill Kickstarter Raises $150,000
Kat Walk, the newest addition to the lineup of VR treadmills, has raised a total of $149,278, putting them well over their initial $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal. KatVR, the China based company behind the VR locomotion device, have announced that non-Kickstarter pre-orders...
‘Everspace’ Promises Dazzling Space Combat, Heading for Kickstarter Success with VR Support
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockfishgames/everspace?ref=
Everspace is an unapologetically accessible space shooter with some of the most dazzling visuals we've ever seen - currently on track to hit its Kickstarter target of 225k EUR. What's more, the developers plan virtual reality support.
As of writing...
SHVR Vive Jam Dev Log #3: Crunching and Final Presentations
With just 48 hours to create prototype experiences for the HTC Vive, developers participating in the SHVR Vive Jam in Shanghai worked tirelessly to prepare their projects to present in front of their peers.
While the SHVR Vive Jam wasn't...
Littlstar Joins Disney Accelerator, Apps Coming Soon to Rift, Morpheus, and Vive
Disney has added Littlestar, the "VR Cinema Network," to its accelerator program. Joining the media conglomerate’s tech accelerator will give the startup access to Disney’s considerable resources and a chance to garner more investment from industry players down the...
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...
VRLA Summer Expo to Be Biggest yet with 1,500+ Attendees and 65 Exhibitors – Road to...
VLRA, the premier VR community in Los Angeles, is hosting their Summer Expo 2015 next weekend where attendees will have a chance to check out the latest VR products from more than 60 companies. Road to VR readers can...
Second Life Developer Invites First Creators to Next-gen Made-for-VR Virtual World
Linden Lab, the developer behind Second Life, has announced the invitation of a select group of engineers and creators to trial the company's next generation virtual world, Project Sansar.
Project Sansar aims be an early competitor in the race to develop something like...
Cloudhead Games to Debut New ‘Gallery’ Demo and ‘Blink’ Locomotion System on HTC Vive at PAX
With the annual PAX Prime conference just around the corner, Cloudhead Games says they'll be showing off a new demo of their episodic made-for-VR game, The Gallery. The developer will show the demo running in conjunction with their newly revealed...
Kaleidoscope Film Festival Hits the Road to Celebrate Cinematic VR
Visiting 10 cities, showcasing 20 curated, innovative and immersive experiences from around the world, the Kaleidoscope VR Film festival heads out on a road show designed to celebrate leading innovators in cinematic VR content and to bring it to a wider...
Vice Sports 360 ‘Extreme Sports’ Video Series Begins with Parkour Legend Ronnie Shalvis
In a new 360 degree video series, Vice Sports are aiming to capture the thrill of extreme sports in the most immersive way possible. The first in the series begins following Parkour / Free-running legend Ronnie Shalvis as he...
AR Glasses Company CastAR Lands $15 Million Investment Led by Android Co-founder’s Firm
CastAR (formerly Technical Illusions) today announced a $15 million Series A fundraising round to continue development of their augmented reality glasses of the same name. The company previously raised just over $1 million on Kickstarter in late 2013.
The CastAR...
HTC Vive to Make UK Public Debut at EGX 2015, Sept 24-27
Valve's first SteamVR headset the HTC Vive is coming to UK's biggest gaming event EGX 2015 at Birmingham's NEC September 24-27. This'll be the first time the hardware has been shown publicly in the UK and will available to try throughout EGX's...



















