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News Bits: More Amazing Procedural Sea Life from ‘Ocean Rift’, Coming Soon to Gear VR
More life-like sea creatures are emerging from the depths of Dr. Llyrd ap Cenydd's Ocean Rift, the underwater VR experience that's soon to appear on Samsung's Gear VR headset.
Dr. Llyr ap Cenydd, developer of Ocean Rift, generated the uncanny sea life...
Oculus Acquires Nimble VR and Two Others for Computer Vision Expertise
Yesterday Oculus announced that they're acquiring Nimble VR, which launched a Kickstarter in October to fund creation of their motion input camera designed for VR headsets. Along with Nimble VR, 13th Lab and Chris Bregler also join the Oculus...
Samsung Gear VR Detailed Review: Part Two – Experience, Gameplay Videos, and More
It's been just a few days and I've already been able to wow more people with VR through Gear VR than in the last month with the Oculus Rift DK2. Mobility is one of Gear VR's biggest assets; at...
Last Chance to Back ‘Crystal Rift’ Kickstarter, New Version of Alpha Released
Crystal Rift, a grid-based dungeon crawler game designed especially for VR, has reached their funding goal with only a few hours to spare until the official end of its crowdfunding campaign. In an effort to drum up more support, the...
News Bits: Note 4 and Gear VR Compatibility Update Rolling out to Verizon and Sprint
Samsung has reached out to let us know that Note 4 users on Verizon and Sprint can expect an update soon which will enable compatibility with Gear VR.
To the excitement of many, Samsung's Gear VR mobile headset went on...
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...


















