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‘Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge’ Review – Beautiful but Basic Shooter with Story DLC

Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge marks a clear departure from ILMxLAB's Vader Immortal series, bringing gameplay to the forefront and using its campaign as a platform for further narrative-driven experiences, which will be available on a rolling basis in...

VR’s Momentum to Gather at GDC 2014, The Road to VR Collective Will Be There!

The Game Developer Conference hits San Francisco beginning March 17th. The VR Collective will be there to cover what promises to be a pivotal show in VR's meteoric rise. 12 Months is a Long Time in Virtual Reality GDC has become...

Oculus Quest & Rift S Controllers Could Hide an Unintended Easter Egg Message Inside

Nate Mitchell, Oculus co-founder and head of VR product at Facebook, revealed that a number of Touch controllers for Quest and Rift S hold an unintended hidden message inside, something he calls "inappropriate." Although Mitchell admits in a tweet that...
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Crytek’s ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Prototype Playthrough Video

Crytek's new virtual reality demo prototype which debuts at E3 this week, is an impressive testament to Crytek's renewed commitment to VR. Here's a video playthrough and some thoughts from my time with the 'Robinson: The Journey' Prototype. Arguably late to...

‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ in Development for Oculus Quest 2

Facebook today announced that it's working with Rockstar Games to bring Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) exclusively to the Oculus Quest 2 headset. The company said in its Facebook keynote today at Facebook Connect 2021 that it has been working "for...

Magic Leap Could Call its First AR Headset ‘Magic Leap One’

Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, might be calling its first device 'Magic Leap One', as suggested by a recent trademark filing. The name was filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on November 6, 2017 alongside something...

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...

VR-optimized Forward Renderer Comes to Unreal Engine 4.14, Said to Be 22% Faster

Epic Games touted their VR-optimized forward renderer as the reason why their forthcoming Robo Recall game looks so crisp in VR. Now the tech is available to all Unreal Engine developers in version 4.14 released today. While deferred rendering has...

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,...

Magic Leap to Launch AR Shooter ‘Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders’ Next Week

Magic Leap's first annual L.E.A.P. Con dev conference is set to open its doors next week, and while we expected to hear a lot about Weta Workshop's upcoming AR shooter Dr. Grordbort's Invaders there, Magic Leap today announced that the...

Survios Shares Momentum & Learnings in Location-based VR Business

Survios, a veteran VR game developer, shared fresh insights into the health of the company's out-of-home business activities, a sector of the VR industry which has been increasingly heating up in the last 18 months. While the consumer VR space...

You Can Now Sideload Oculus Quest Apps with Your Phone – No PC Required

Oculus App Lab, Facebook's unmoderated app outlet, has largely stolen the thunder from the unofficial Quest app store SideQuest over the past few months. This is largely due to the ease of use that App Lab offers over SideQuest,...

Hands-on: Capcom’s Resident Evil “Kitchen” Demo is Terrifying on PSVR

Capcom brought its Resident Evil VII “Kitchen” demo to PAX West this year, and Road to VR went hands on to try it out. The demo takes place before the events of Resident Evil VII’s main storyline, and is...

“Valve’s VR Demo Felt Like Being in a Lucid Dream State and Very Much Like a...

Last week we saw the latest Oculus Rift prototype, dubbed 'Crystal Cove,' and this week we've been waiting patiently for info on Valve's prototype virtual reality head mounted display that the company showed yesterday and today at the Steam...

Kopin’s ‘Elf’ Headset is Impressively Compact, More Than 3x the Pixels of Rift and Vive

Kopin is touting a new prototype VR headset featuring their 4K OLED 'Lightning' microdisplay that they say is made specifically for VR. At nearly half the size of other headsets, and made from lightweight materials, the device feels featherlight...
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