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‘Asgard’s Wrath’ is the Most Critically Acclaimed Oculus Studios Game Since 2017’s ‘Lone Echo’

After a string of major releases from Oculus Studios which have garnered so-so receptions, Asgard's Wrath has broken the chain as the most critically acclaimed title from the publisher since 2017's Lone Echo. As anyone with a VR headset will tell...

Avegant Glyph Kickstarter Surpasses Stretch Goals Before They’re Made, Try the Glyph in a City Near...

Stretch goals for the record-breaking Avegant Glyph Kickstarter have been finalized, with some of the goals having been passed even before they were even created. Rewards include new colors, noise canceling, and limited edition engraving. Avegant is taking the...

‘Bigscreen’ Launches Paid Cloud Browser to Let Quest Users Screen Share Without a PC

Bigscreen, the social VR screen sharing platform, is spectacularly good at letting users hold communal watch parties dedicated to anything they can show on a PC's screen, Quest users included. But now the studio is launching a paid cloud-streaming...

The Best Holiday Windows VR Deal Yet, Today Only: Windows VR Headsets Starting at $200

Microsoft is cutting prices even lower than their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal with their one day-only sale that reduces the price of two of their least expensive headsets, Acer and Lenovo, to just $200. Besides coming from the big...
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Adorable Puzzle Adventure ‘Ghost Giant’ Coming Exclusively to PSVR

Ghost Giant is an upcoming puzzle adventure that has a lot of heart, as it you, the Ghost Giant, keeps a lonely kid named Louis company on his adventures through the picturesque town of Sancourt. Created by Zoink, the minds...

‘The Climb 2’ Review – Ascending to Greater, More Fun Environments

The Climb 2 has continued to refine what made the first game in the franchise so much fun. It serves up more interesting and challenging climbs across more exotic locales, and it does it with a few new flourishes over the...

WEARVR Raises $1.5 Million for Universal VR App Marketplace

Today WEARVR has announced a $1.5 million funding round to continue to grow their universal VR marketplace, which houses apps for a wide range of VR headsets. For the month of April, Road to VR is partnering up with...

Valve: New VR Users on Steam Grew by 11% in 2021, Unique Play Sessions Up 22%

New figures directly from Valve reveal the growth of VR users on Steam in 2021. Shared by Valve this week, the Steam 2021 Year in Review gives us some fresh official stats about VR usage on the platform. Valve says "new...

Quest 2 Now the Most Used on Steam, Monthly-connected Headsets Hit Record High of 2.8 Million

Another month, another record high count for the VR usership on Steam. Quest 2, despite being a standalone headset, has helped to drive much of the growth thanks to its ability to connect to a PC to play PC...

VR Creation Tool ‘Masterpiece X’ Comes to Quest 2 for Free

Masterpiece Studio, the developers behind the titular PC VR creative suite, released a new version of its software built natively for Quest 2, something its creators hope will appeal to people looking for an easy way to make models,...

Meta Planning Web-based Version of ‘Horizon Worlds’ With Lower Creator Fees Than Its VR Platform

Meta announced earlier this week it would eventually allow creators to sell items on its social VR platform, Horizon Worlds, adding that the company would take around 50% of revenue as its cut. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth now says however Horizon...

Quest 3 Unboxing Reportedly Leaked Ahead of Fall Release, Video Here

Meta's upcoming Quest 3 headset is slated for a Fall 2023 launch, possibly even at the company's Connect developer conference coming September 27th. It seems Meta has suffered yet another unauthorized pre-launch unboxing of their hardware, echoing the Quest...

‘Pokémon Go’ Studio Niantic Completes $200M Funding Round

Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they've taken on $200 million in their Series B investment round. As reported by Tech Crunch, the Series B investment round was lead by Spark Capital in participation with Founders...

Valve Updated SteamVR Tracking Because ‘Beat Saber’ Players Were Too Fast

In an interesting case of software pushing the limits of hardware, Valve recently updated SteamVR Tracking code to account for the speed of high-level Beat Saber players. At first glance it might not be apparent, but Beat Saber is an excellent challenge...

Scientists Build an Itty-bitty VR Headset to Better Study Mice

Researchers at Cornell University have developed 'MouseGoggles', a miniature VR headset with eye-tracking for mice, which was used to study complex behaviors during neural recordings. Traditional small-animal VR systems have been limited by their size, immersivity, and lack of advanced...
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