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Oculus Touch VR Controller Launches 1st Half of 2016, Pre-orders Open Alongside Rift

The Oculus Touch VR controller will ship in the first half of 2016, says founder Palmer Luckey. The units will be available for pre-order at the same time as the Oculus Rift. After revealing the Oculus Touch 'Half Moon' prototype...

Oculus Reveals ‘Oculus Touch’ Half Moon Prototype VR Input Controller

Today at the company's 'Step into the Rift' pre-E3 event in San Francisco, Oculus revealed what they're calling 'Oculus Touch', the company's VR-specific input controller. The prototype revealed at the event was dubbed 'Half Moon' by Oculus and uses the...

Oculus ‘Step Into the Rift Event’ Livestream Starts in 2 Hours (10am PT) – Watch it...

Today is the big day for Oculus. The company's 'Step into the Rift' pre-e3 press event kicks off in 2 hours (at 10am PT), and you can join us right here, or meet up with the VR community inside...

Oculus Rift Press Event to Be Livestreamed Tomorrow at 10am PT – Here’s What We Hope...

Oculus has announced that their forthcoming 'Step into the Rift' press event will be livestreamed for all to see. The action starts at 10am PT on Thursday (tomorrow!). After recently revealing that the consumer Oculus Rift VR headset would launch...

Futuremark Announces “VRMark” Virtual Reality Benchmarking Tool in Development

Futuremark, the Finnish company specialising in synthetic performance benchmarking software, has announced it's to turn its hand to measuring immersive technology performance with VRMark, its first virtual reality benchmark. Futuremark has been a stalwart of the performance PC community scene...

New VR Theme Parks from Landmark Entertainment Group to “Fuse Art, Culture, and Retail with Virtual...

The Landmark Entertainment Group, a theme park and live entertainment creative studio, has recently announced they are creating an interactive virtual reality park in China. The first of its kind, the park is said to heavily emphasize VR and AR in...

Front-facing Camera and New Positional Tracker for Oculus Rift Shown in Leak

Along with the first look at a VR input controller from Oculus, today's leak shows a front-facing camera on the consumer version of the headset as well as a redesigned positional tracking camera. Since the Oculus Rift DK2, Oculus has...

Oculus Rift Input Controller Revealed in Leaked “Placeholder Concept”

Oculus today launched a revamped version of their website to prepare for the upcoming 'Step into the Rift' event later this week. With it came a slew of previously unseen photos which show, for the first time, an Oculus...

HTC Vive Setup Guide Reveals IPD, Eye-relief Adjustments, and More

With deliveries of the HTC Vive Developer Edition now arriving, Valve has released the 'Setup guide pamphlet' that's included in the box. Filled with classic subtle humor from Valve, the pamphlet also confirms IPD and eye-relief adjustments on the HTC Vive...

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...
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