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With 500,000+ Units Shipped, Google Just Got Serious About Cardboard
Today Google is getting serious about Cardboard. The simple VR smartphone adapter debuted at the company's annual I/O 2014 conference earlier this year. What started out as a '20% project', essentially a hobby, is turning into something significant.
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Virtuix Closes $2.7M Investment, Finalised Omni Design to be Revealed at CES 2015
Virtuix has just announced that it has secured $2.7M of investment as the commercial launch of its omni-directional treadmill, the Omni approaches.
Time was at Road to VR that every other week we'd have a story on the Virtuix Omni,...
Getting Traditional Filmmakers to Think ‘Outside the Frame’ for Cinematic VR
As more cinematic VR content emerges from early pioneers, traditional filmmakers are starting to catch on to the massive potential that virtual reality holds for immersive storytelling. However, the 'flat screen' is a very mature medium, one which has...
Nimble Sense Nears End of Kickstarter Campaign, Reaches First $120,000 Stretch Goal
Nimble Sense, the hand tracking controller designed to work with head mounted displays, has surpassed its first stretch goal of $120,000, nearly doubling its base funding goal of $62,500. With only a few days left until the crowdfunding campaign closes, the...
Samsung Gear VR Detailed Review: Part One – Design Comparison to Oculus Rift DK2
We've been fortunate to get our hands on the highly anticipated Samsung Gear VR headset and we've got a full breakdown of the unit's in's and out's. This is one you don't want to miss.
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Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 87): Gear VR Release with Ritchie D and Ben Lang
Well, it's finally here! After much anticipation, Samsung and Oculus have finally made their Gear VR headset available for purchase. I took the opportunity to sit down with Ben Lang, editor and chief of Road to VR, and Ritchie...
Samsung Gear VR Unboxing, Handy Carry Case Included (video)
Today is the day that essentially the first consumer VR headset launched in the last decade becomes available. That headset is Samsung's Gear VR, created in collaboration with Oculus. Join us for an unboxing of this impressive device.See Also:...
Samsung Gear VR Now Officially Available in the US, Launches Internationally ‘Early 2015’
After over months of rumours and an official unveiling at IFA 2014 just 3 months ago, Samsung's Note 4 based VR Headset Gear VR is now finally available to buy.
Gear VR Has Arrived
Samsung has officially announced that as of today,...
New ‘Sightline: The Chair’ Gets ‘3DCeption’ Binaural Audio, Developer Discusses VR Audio
One of the busiest developers on the scene right now, Tomáš Mariančík (aka Frooxius), has just released a new version of his hit VR experience 'Sightline: The Chair' with added integration with 3DCeption, a "real-time binaural synthesis engine". We asked...
New Apple Job Listing Seeks ‘VR/AR Programmer’ to “use VR and AR to… enable development of...
Apple is investing in additional VR savvy, with more job postings trickling out of the multinational tech giant's own internal job site. Although Apple hasn't left us with many clues as to what they might be working on at their Santa...
Inside Look at 3DRudder, Feet-Controlled Navigation Device Headed to CES 2015
A new PC peripheral company based in France is launching a feet-controlled 3D navigation and motion control device that wants to get the lower half of your body in the game, freeing up your hands for the more important things in virtual...
Sixense STEM + Striker VR Brings Real Recoil to Virtual Weaponry (video)
Sixense, creators of the STEM motion input controller, are showing off an experiment which combines their 'STEM Pack' with Striker VR's weapon recoil system. The result is a weapon that feels real in both form and function, and carries...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 86): Evangelizing VR to the World with UploadVR
Evangelizing virtual reality to the world is a difficult task. Each day, we creep closer to the consumer release of multiple VR devices that will disrupt technology as we know it, and the world needs to be prepared. Many of...
Developer Details Design Approach to Siemens Oculus Rift Experience
The multinational conglomerate company known as Siemens has partnered up with a team of artists and developers from London to highlight the company's engineering abilities using the Oculus Rift DK2 headset.
The story begins when Siemens approached the UK-based company...
News Bits: Previously Unseen Jaunt VR Camera Prototype Appears Unexpectedly
The Jaunt VR camera has a habit of popping up in curious places. This time we've spotted a previously unseen prototype in Wired's 'Futuristic Gifts for the Super-Early Adopter' list.
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