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South Park Takes on the Oculus Rift
South Park's episode last week, Grounded Vindaloop, has zeroed in on the beloved Oculus Rift, along with some longstanding fears surrounding virtual reality. The episode, which dives into a meta virtual reality, also pokes fun at outsourced customer service. If...
DODOcase Sells More Than 65,000 Cardboard VR Kits, Now Kickstarting New Version and Open-source VR Tools
DODOcase is probably known by most for their phone and tablet cases, but the San Francisco-based company jumped on an opportunity to get Google Cardboard VR kits into the hands of a VR-hungry public. To date, the company has...
VRLA #4 Heading to House of Moves on December 13th, Big Names in the VR Scene...
The VRLA Meetup is holding its forth event come Saturday December 13th. To be hosted at House of Moves, a well known motion capture firm based in Los Angeles, California, 26 exhibitors will be present at the event, including many...
Sixense Shows off STEM Tracking With Impressive Ping Pong Demo
Sixense, creators of the tracking technology in the Razer Hydra, have been hard at work over the last year developing Hydra's successor, STEM. The company has also recently announced that STEM will be compatible with Samsung's Gear VR for...
News Bits: Palmer Luckey Wins at the 2014 World Technology Awards
Oculus has caused a stir in the technology world, a statement riddled with understatement perhaps. The company and it's founder Palmer Luckey have walked away with countless industry awards since the appearance of it's Oculus Rift DK1 in late...
Exclusive: Preview 3 of Jaunt’s VR Cinema Shorts (video)
Jaunt has been busy shooting several made-for-VR experiences which the company says will be released for VR in trailer form "imminently." Road to VR has the first look at three of Jaunt's forthcoming cinematic VR experiences.
Jaunt is working to create...
Play ‘The Worst VR Game Ever’ and Support a Great Charitable Cause
It's not the moniker most developers would relish being attached to their work, but in the case of the developers at Shiny Shoe, creators of Desert Bus VR, it's entirely appropriate.
Drive the Desert Bus for Hope
On a very long and...
First Impressions of Project Beyond, Samsung’s 360 3D Camera for VR
In a surprise announcement at SDC, Samsung revealed Project Beyond, a 360 degree 3D camera for filming virtual reality content. We got to take a look at the unit first hand and experience the VR video that it captures.
Project Beyond...
SDC 2014: The Human Perceptual System in Virtual Reality – LiveBlog @1pm PDT
"This talk will focus on the human component of VR: your perceptual system. Virtual reality systems like the Oculus Rift and Gear VR replace the visual input to your brain in a way technology never has before; for better...
Beautiful Hi-Res Images of Samsung’s ‘Project Beyond’ Surface, Along with New Video
Think Tank Team, the alias given to Samsung's 'Research America' group have launched a website celebrating the research, design and engineering that went into Project Beyond, Samsung's newly announced 3D 360 VR Camera tech.
Form, Function
Samsung's San Jose based research...
VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Crystal Rift’ Launches Kickstarter Campaign
It's interesting to see genres and themes returning in an entirely new and yet familiar form. Grid-based dungeon crawler Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics....
SDC 2014: Oculus Launches Mobile SDK for Android Development on Gear VR—Breaking
Oculus has just released their long awaited mobile SDK for Android development on Samsung's forthcoming Gear VR headset.
Oculus Mobile SDK 0.4.0 Now Available for Download
The 868MB Oculus Mobile SDK can be downloaded in the Oculus developer portal here. Oculus...
SDC 2014: Samsung Announces ‘Project Beyond’ A 3D 360 Camera for VR – Breaking
SDC 2014 has just kicked off and at the opening keynote, Samsung have just announced that, alongside their new Note 4 based VR Headset, they've also got a 360 Stereoscopic 3D camera, designed and built to capture video for...
SDC 2014: Samsung Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ to Launch in U.S. Early December—Breaking
Today at Samsung Developer Conference 2014, the company has announced that their mobile VR headset, Gear VR, will launch in early December, just in time for the holiday season.
Price and exact date yet to be specified. There's not much...
John Carmack Wants Minecraft on Samsung’s Gear VR
John Carmack, famed developer and Oculus CTO, is known for being open and frank. Having prodded Minecraft developer Mojang on the topic in the past, now that the company has changed hands following its sale to Microsoft, Carmack has once...


















