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‘Foreign Nature’ Takes You on a Geometry Bending VR Trip Through a Fractal World (download)
Fractal artist Julius Horsthuis has released Foreign Nature, a 360 video aimed for playback on the Oculus Rift DK2, which sends you through a fractal world where the line between man-made and natural is never quite clear. The free download is...
Virtuix Demonstrates Self-adjustment Capabilities of Omni VR Treadmill (video)
From the get-go, the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill was designed to be both adjustable and collapsible, allowing it to work for users of different heights and be stowed away out of sight. For the first time at CES 2015,...
Oculus Rift ‘Crescent Bay’ is Designed for Audiophiles – Here’s Why that’s Important for VR
Oculus' latest feature prototype VR Headset, code-named Crescent Bay, was out in force at this year's CES, blowing minds left, right and centre. But whilst debate rages over precisely what optics and display it contains, Crescent Bay's audio has...
Exclusive: Visionary Genius Behind ‘BUTTS’ Elucidates on Must-see VR Masterpiece
Tyler Hurd's Proto Award nominated "BUTTS: The VR Experience" is a VR masterpiece for the ages. How did this creative genius manage to distill such tear-worthy beauty into a VR experience of only two minutes? Not content to guess, we...
CES 2015: Leap Motion Co-Founders Talk ‘Dragonfly’ Made-for-VR Motion Input Camera
At CES 2015 last week, we met up with Leap Motion co-founders Michael Buckwald and David Holz to try their latest prototype motion input camera, codenamed 'Dragonfly', and chat with the duo to learn more about their plans for making...
FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Enables Disabled Boy to Play Piano in School Concert, Donate to Spread...
FOVE, the Japan based VR headset creator, is using their eye-tracking technology in a new project: 'Eye Play the Piano', a collaborative partnership with the University of Tsukuba's Special Needs Education School which aims to give physically-disabled students the...
Phase Between the Real and Virtual World With Leap Motion and a Swipe of Your Hand
With a recent pivot toward virtual reality, Leap Motion is continuing to discover useful ways to use their motion input controller for virtual reality. The company has devised a new gesture which activates and deactivates passthrough camera functionality with a...
Samsung’s Milk VR to Host Footage of NBA Games
Samsung recently announced a partnership with the NBA at this year's CES, which, come February, will aim to give Gear VR owners the best seat in the house for game action and behind-the-scenes footage.
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CES 2015: But Seriously, This is What 3DHead Had to Say for Themselves
It looks like many of you enjoyed our concise analysis of 3DHead. While we had a bit of fun with the company's massive gaming helmet (making sure here that we don't confuse it with an actual VR headset), we...
Oculus Rift VR Experiences Take Top Spots in Leap Motion ‘3D Jam’ Contest
Leap Motion's '3D Jam' dev contest, presented by the independent games festival IndieCade, is now officially over and the results are in. Among the 20 semi-finalists, who were awarded over $75,000 in prizes by a jury composed of Leap...
CES 2015: We Talk CastAR with Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson (Plus: ‘Toby the Cat’ Health...
Paul James sits down with Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, the masterminds behind the unique augmented reality system CastAR, to review what's happened in the 12 months since CES 2014.
There's no doubt that covering a show as large as...
CES 2015: Sixense Shows off Distortion Correction with STEM Motion Controller (video)
Sixense, creators of the tech behind the Razer Hydra, and the upcoming STEM motion controller, gave us a demo showing how STEM's new distortion correction method can make a huge difference in environments with magnetic distortion.
In the early days...
Correction: Meta Did Not Publish Active User Figures for VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’
Correction (January 9th, 2025 – 5:31PM ET): A previous version of this article reported that Meta had revealed that Meta's VR fitness app Supernatural had reached 110,000 active users. This report was incorrect.
Meta reached out to inform Road to VR that the "110,000...
CES 2015: AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo Talks Social VR at Intel’s Booth
We had a chance to talk shop with the minds behind AltspaceVR, a yet unreleased social platform for virtual reality, located at the Intel booth at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. Executive Editor and intrepid reporter Ben Lang spoke with Eric...
