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Kite & Lightning’s ‘Genesis’ is an Immersion-machine That Takes You on a Reality-bending Ride
When the Kite & Lightning developers told me they had something to show me that couldn't physically be demonstrated anywhere else, I was intrigued. Little did I know, upon arriving at their office, that I would be stepping into...
Google Adds Virtual Reality Street View Mode to Google Maps for Android
With the launch of Google's Cardboard VR smartphone adapter at Google I/O 2014 earlier this week, the company hopes to kickstart VR development for Android. In addition to the Cardboard app, Google has pushed out and updated version of...
SVVR Meetup #11 Happens Tonight – Join the Live Stream Online or in Virtual Reality
Road to VR's Brian Hart will be live streaming the 11th gathering of the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Meetup tonight, starting at 7:00pm PDT. The event will be broadcast online and in virtual reality through Riftmax.SVVR, one of the...
VR Philly to Host Philadelphia’s First Virtual Reality Meetup on July 2nd
West coasters are a lucky bunch, the growing popularity of virtual reality has brought forth plenty of great community gatherings to choose from—SVVR, VRLA, SFVR, and OCVR—just to name a few. Now, the East Coast is getting into the...
‘Hello, Again’ by Director Chris Milk is a Revolutionary Virtual Reality Concert Experience Featuring Beck
Director Chris Milk was tasked by Lincoln to reimagine the concert experience, and reimagine it he did. Milk's audacious project, Hello, Again, featuring Beck, is an incredible interactive concert experience that's best viewed through the Oculus Rift. I recently had...
News Bits: Impressive VR Lightsaber Video Uses the Oculus Rift and a Serious Mo-Cap Rig
Let's face it, there's a large proportion of people reading this post that hold a secret (or not so secret) desire to kick Imperial ass using nothing but the Force and a Lightsaber.
Well a hacker named Benjamin Teitler just...
Oculus VR Responds to ZeniMax Allegations with 32 Page Court Filing
As part of the ongoing lawsuit against Oculus VR on behalf of ZeniMax, Oculus has today responded to ZeniMax's official court filing with their own comprehensive 32 page document. The response presents what appears to be a strong case...
Google Reveals ‘Cardboard’, a low-cost VR Smartphone Adapter and VR Toolkit SDK at IO 2014—Breaking
At this week's Google IO 2014, the company's annual developer conference, the search giant is handing out 'Cardboard', a low-cost VR headset adapter for smartphones. The company is also making freely available an open 'VR Toolkit' and SDK to...
News Bits: Oculus VR Agree to Acquire Design Carbon Design Group, Multiple Unannounced Projects in the...
Those of us wrapped up in the dizzying (sometimes literally) world of virtual reality have been so focussed on following the progress of how the hard, pure technical problems are being solved by those smart eggs at Oculus VR, that we...
Alert: ‘Horizon V’ HMD Legitimacy Concerns Grow, What We Know So Far
It's been an interesting and somewhat sordid 24 hours since we broke the news a company supposedly called 'Horizon VR' who claimed that not only that they had a brand new VR Headset that comprised 2 x 4k /...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 69): Binaural Audio, ASMR Videos, and VR Content with Ally Maque
A friend recently sent me a video of a gal whispering into her microphone and tapping her nails on a coffee mug, with the message, "You have to talk to her about VR!" I invited Ally onto the Rev...
Alert: Horizon V ‘4K VR Headset’ May Not Be Legitimate, InfinitEye Team Deny Involvement
The VR headset race has seen many entrants in the last two years other than Oculus's Rift. But none has managed to convincingly best the Rift's raw technical specifications quite so dazzlingly as the InfinitEye 210 Degree, dual 720p...
Hands-on: Kor-FX Haptic Gaming Vest Doesn’t Pack Enough Punch for VR
At E3 2014 I had the chance to try out the $150 Kor-FX gaming vest which has far exceeded its Kickstarter goal with 31 days left in the crowdfunding campaign. The vest seeks to add immersion to gameplay by rumbling...
Striker VR Brings Ultra-Realistic Recoil To Virtual Weaponry
Bridging the gaps that still remain in virtual reality once the visual and audio elements are at least 'good enough', VR enthusiasts will surely turn their attention to elements that are missing from their experience whilst trying to reach...
News Bits: Waiting For Your DK2? This Guys Knows How You Feel (Video)
The wait for the Oculus Rift DK2 is almost over. Oculus VR have stated that they're confident they can ship 20-30k DK2 units in the month of July, which means that there's likely to be a lot of very...

















