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Lenovo Jumps into VR with Enterprise VR Ready System Touting Two $5,000 GPUs

Lenovo revealed at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) their new line of Nvidia certified VR Ready computers, the company's next step in VR dedicated hardware. And if you're thinking of getting your hands on the new line of ThinkStations—the P910, P710, and P510—you...

‘Garry’s Mod’ Sequel Adopts OpenXR to ‘Expand VR Feature Set’ and Support More Devices

Facepunch Studios announced that s&box, its upcoming physics sandbox and game development platform, is now using OpenXR, which will not only allow the studio to expand its VR feature set, but also the range of supported devices. VR support has been...

‘Moss: Book II’ Will Be Bigger Than the Original, Introduce New Progression & Interactions

Moss: Book II, a direct sequel to the lauded original, was finally announced earlier this month. And it hopes to answer what was perhaps the original game's biggest problem: it was too short! In an interview with the game's Design...
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VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber’s Fun Isn’t What You Think

Our series Inside XR Design highlights and unpacks examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at Beat Saber (2019) and why its most essential design element can be used to make great VR games that have nothing to do with...

Virtua View for Oculus Rift — Crowdfunding Campaign Launched

Christer-Andre Fagerslett (aka Namielus), the developer of VirtuaView (previously known as Virtual Cinema) has launched a Crowdfunding campaign via IndieGogo for his extremely promising multiplayer / multimedia Virtual Reality project. Virtually There We've kept in close contact with Christer-Andre since we...

Leaked HoloLens ‘Actiongram’ Videos Show What Interacting with Windows in AR Looks Like

New instructional videos, supposedly leaked from a HoloLens development program, give us a glimpse at what every day interaction with Windows running in Augmented Reality looks like. Microsoft first unveiled their augmented reality headset HoloLens at a special Windows 10 event last...

NVIDIA CloudXR is Launching on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS

NVIDIA is continuing the rollout of its CloudXR technology on the three leading cloud computing platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. With the tech readily available from these providers, companies building products and services on these cloud providers...

Valve Index and Knuckles Pre-orders Confirmed for May 1st, Shipping in June

Valve today confirmed to Road to VR that the company is planning a full reveal of Index on May 1st, accompanied by pre-order availability of both the headset and Knuckles controllers. The company says the actual release date of the...

Download 13 Beautiful Unreal Engine 4 Examples for the Oculus Rift DK2

While Unity was arguably the engine of choice for indie Rift developers early on, Unreal Engine 4's recent change to crazy-reasonable pricing and impressive new graphical capabilities has it catching on like wild fire. A VR enthusiast as taken...
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Inspired by ‘Mirror’s Edge’, ‘Stride’ Looks to Bring Smooth Parkour Action to VR

In development by studio Joy Way, Stride is a VR parkour action game built atop an impressively smooth and immersive locomotion system. With inspiration from Mirror's Edge (2008), Stride is an intriguing indie project due to launch this Summer. Update (July 7th,...

Windows VR Headsets Can Play Oculus Exclusive Games via Revive

The announcement that Steam will support the forthcoming Windows VR headsets was big news which means that owners will eventually have a strong library of VR content to draw from while Microsoft builds up its own library of VR games...

Discovery and Google Announce VR Travel Series ‘Discovery TRVLR’, First of 38 Episodes to Arrive in...

Discovery and Google today announced the launch of a new 38-episode VR video series called Discovery TRVLR, a product of both Discovery and Google’s internal VR teams. The first 6 episodes is slated to launch on Friday, November 3. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively...

Pico Neo 6DoF Standalone Headset to Bring Viveport Mobile Westward

When the China-based headset manufacturer Pico Interactive announced they were bringing their six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Pico Neo VR headset and 6DoF controllers to the West, it wasn't clear what content store they'd be drawing from when they released the headset out...
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What I Learned by Building an Iconic Weapon From ‘Apex Legends’ in VR

In the decade that I've spent studying and reporting on VR I've had the fortune of experiencing a wide range of VR game design—a craft which is still far from 'figured out'. And while I have no intention of...

Capturing Virtual Worlds: A Method for Taking 360 Virtual Photos and Videos

In this technical deep-dive, D 'eVRydayVR' Coetzee explores in detail the technical challenges preventing us from sharing our favourite VR experiences with others and the solutions available to overcome them. D is a VR software developer and founder of the...
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