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EA, Microsoft, and Ubisoft all Reveal VR and AR Side Projects at E3 2015
Snippets of VR-centric news have been coming out from major game studios and their subsidiaries—specifically from EA, Microsoft, and Ubisoft—throughout the course of E3. Here we take a look at some of the VR projects the big studios have...
‘RiftUp!’ Promises to Bring 1080p Upgrades to Your Oculus Rift DK1, IndieGogo Campaign Now Live
"Hmmm, upgrades!"
The first Oculus Rift Developer Kit will hopefully be viewed fondly in retrospective articles of the future citing its, at the time, revolutionary impact on the gaming industry and it's resurrection of a abandoned tech dream. One thing...
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...
Sony Morpheus Development – ‘Vanguard V’ Dev Shares Perspective
With the Gear VR and Oculus Rift 'Crescent Bay' prototype currently in the spotlight, it shouldn't be forgotten that Sony's PS4 VR headset, Project Morpheus, is still brewing in the background. Development kits are out in the wild and work has...
A Wider FOV: Special – A Guide to Virtual Reality Demonstrations
Guest contributor Kevin Williams brings us a detailed guide on the many considerations to be made when giving a mass demonstration of virtual reality hardware to the public.
A Wider FOV is a semi-regular feature from Road to VR guest contributor,...
Step into the World of Skyrim with the Cyberith Virtualizer—Interview and New Video Footage with Founder...
We interview Tuncay Cakmak, founder of Cyberith and inventor of the virtual reality omnidirectional treadmill, the Virtualizer, to find out what he and the team have been up to. Plus, a new Skyrim demonstration video.
The Cyberith Virtualizer
Update: We erroneously...
Oculus Touch VR Controller Launches 1st Half of 2016, Pre-orders Open Alongside Rift
The Oculus Touch VR controller will ship in the first half of 2016, says founder Palmer Luckey. The units will be available for pre-order at the same time as the Oculus Rift.
After revealing the Oculus Touch 'Half Moon' prototype...
EVE: Valkyrie Will Ship With Every Oculus Rift at Launch
CCP Games have announced that their made-for-VR online, multi-player space shooter EVE: Valkyrie, will ship free with every consumer Oculus Rift VR headset at launch, some time in Q1 2016.
Today, CCP Games have announced that their first made-for-VR title...
VR Minigolf is Here and Real Minigolf Should be Scared
Virtual reality has an amazing capacity to make you feel like you are somewhere else, and to step into new worlds. But as far as actually being an accurate stand-in for most real life activities, VR still has a...
‘The Martian VR Experience’ Launches on PSVR and HTC Vive Tomorrow
The Fox Innovation Lab are all set to finally release their virtual reality tie-in with last year's sci-fi blockbuster The Martian starring Matt Damon to a VR headset near you as the title launches tomorrow on both PlayStation VR...
AMD’s ‘LDK’ is a ‘Liquid VR’ PC Platform for Developers, to Ship with CryEngine this Year
AMD's Liquid VR, an initiative to enhance virtual reality experiences on the company's GPUs, has a development kit that will ship this fall and it'll come with a full copy of Crytek's CryEngine as part of the package.
AMD's virtual reality...
‘Ground Control’ and ‘Stompz’, Two Natural VR Controllers for Your Feet
The VR community has been rattling its cage for intuitive input devices for quite a while now, and because nobody really knows exactly what that means yet, we're entertaining anything and everything until we do. Here we take a look...
GDC 2013: Michael Abrash on “Why VR is Hard (and where it might be going)”
At GDC 2013, the legendary Michael Abrash took to the stage to talk about the Oculus Rift and virtual reality. Abrash, now working at Valve, has been researching augmented and virtual reality technology for the company. When he began his talk...
VIVE – the Very Immersive Virtual Experience that Fuses Motion Capture with the Oculus Rift
Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...
Virtual Reality Music Video ‘An Unseen Sky’ Available on Oculus Share Now
The Music video is a once trailblazing form of entertainment, borne in the 80s thanks primarily to the advent of 'youth' focussed television and of course MTV. Although the majority are merely literal, visual, commercially driven accompaniments to the music,...



















