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Road to VR Readership Survey 2019
Road to VR is running a survey with our partner Gamer Network to better understand our audience. Your participation is entirely optional and anonymous, but we’d be thrilled if you’d share your responses with us.
You may recall that Road to VR partnered...
Shanghai and Brisbane VR Groups Unite to Present Free Global Events Hosted in VR Chat
This weekend the Shanghai and Brisbane VR meet up groups have teamed up to bring the world a free, online virtual reality mini-expo featuring presentations about VR. All of it's hosted in the online social application VR Chat, and you're...
Oculus CTO: Quest Has No Dedicated Hardware to Play PC Games over USB-C
Oculus Quest, the company's newly announced high-end standalone headset, has a USB Type-C connector. VirtualLink, the new VR connector standard created by a consortium of prominent industry players, also uses USB Type-C. So if you happen to own a new flagship...
uSens Grabs $20 Million Series A Investment for ‘Inside-out’ Tracking Tech
This week uSens announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch...
Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking...
Immersed Visor’s First Big Showing Heightened Concerns About Deliverability
The Immersed IRL event, held yesterday in Austin, Texas was the company's big moment to showcase its upcoming headset and build confidence that it was on track to deliver on the promise of an ambitious headset. But a botched...
StarVR Teases New Version of Its High-end VR Headset to be Revealed Next Week
StarVR, creator of a high-end VR headset for out-of-home use, is teasing something new to be revealed next week at SIGGRAPH 2018.
StarVR is a high-end headset made for out-of-home use like VR arcades and attractions. The headset's main selling...
Vrse Immerses 1,200 TED Attendees in Simultaneous VR Experience
On stage at TED 2016, Vrse founder Chris Milk conducted what the company is calling "the largest simultaneous virtual reality experience in history." Using a dedicated app and Cardboard VR viewers handed out at the session, 1,200 attendees peer...
Pimax Promises a Sneak Peek at ‘Next-gen’ VR Product on October 25th
Pimax announced its holding a product event on October 25th that will introduce a next-gen VR headset, something that the company promises will be "several generations ahead of anything currently on the market."
The event, dubbed Frontier 2021, was originally...
The Glitch Mob & ‘TheWaveVR’ to Launch Interactive VR Version of Latest Album
TheWaveVR, the social VR music platform, and electronic music group The Glitch Mob are collaborating to launch a new interactive VR version of the band's third and latest studio album, 'See Without Eyes'.
The interactive VR album will take users on...
Psychological VR Thriller ‘Blind’ to Launch on PSVR, Rift & Vive September 18th
Tiny Bull Studios and Fellow Traveller (ex-Surprise Attack Games), today announced that Blind, the long-awaited psychological thriller, is slated to launch globally on September 18th for PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR.
Blind puts you in the shoes of a young woman...
HTC Vive Tracker Juggling (yes, juggling) Demonstrates Impressive Performance
The Vive Tracker, a 'puck'-like device designed to attach to objects to track them in VR via the SteamVR Tracking system, went on sale this week after 1,000 units went out to developers earlier this year. One developer aptly...
‘Geppetto’ Prototype Makes Animating in VR a Hands-on Experience
Masters of Pie, a London based 3D animation studio, have taken a page out of the book of renowned claymation works such as Wallace and Gromit with their stop-motion animation prototype tool for VR, aptly code named Geppetto after the fictional creator...
Valve’s New Site Affirms Role of VR in Company’s Future, Teases “Top secret” Games
"We make games, Steam, and hardware. Join us," says the first line of Valve's newly redesigned website—in big bold red letters—bringing its look more in line with 2010's design language than the previous version that screamed 'late 2000's'. Along...
Minecraft Reality AR App Let’s Players Import Creations Into the Real World
Minecraft Reality is an AR app created by 13th Lab in Conjunction with Minecraft developer Mojang. The app, which is currently only available for iOS devices, allows users to place Minecraft creations in the real world as augmented reality...
















