The first class of Rothenberg Ventures’ ‘River’ VR accelerator have graduated. Thirteen companies, in which Rothenberg invested a combined $1.3 million, showed off their latest work at the company’s annual Founder Field Day event. Road to VR was on the scene to see what the companies had accomplished during the three month accelerator.
The 2015 AWE (Augmented World Expo) is around the corner and it’s set to feature over 200 companies that are blazing trails in the augmented and virtual reality industry. Better yet, Road to VR readers get 50% off the entrance fee.
There’s a coming tide of VR peripherals on the horizon, and haptic gloves represent a compact, and (relatively) cost-efficient solution among the multi-pronged challenge that is VR input.
Oculus today announced the winners of the Mobile VR Jam, a contest that saw some of the most innovative games and experiences targeted at the Gear VR platform.
Project Tango is Google’s computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by adding an AR/VR track to the Project Tango dev contest.
Oculus has revealed their second VR film project from Story Studio, the company’s internal CG film studio. The VR film is called Henry and is based on a lovable but folly-prone cartoon hedgehog.
Reload Studios, a VR development studio formed by former Call of Duty developers, has announced that they’ve received a $2 million investment from World Innovation Lab.
The latest public data point on the number of Google Cardboard viewers shipped shows tremendous growth for this inexpensive entry point into virtual reality.
Cyberith are well known for their fun and irreverent gameplay videos, demonstrating their omni-directional treadmill the Virtualizer. The team are back with this new video, showing 2-player Grand Theft Auto V hilarity as they career around San Andreas in VR using two individual Virtualizer treadmills – all in virtual reality courtesy of VorpX.
Cyberith are gearing up for the E3 Expo this month as they release details of new exciting Virtualizer (an omni-directional treadmill for VR) features. They’ve also confirmed they’ll be on hand at the event with 3 Virtualizers for attendees to try.
Virtual Reality is a worldwide phenomenon which has inspired people from around the world to connect with one another, virtually and in real life. Today, we’re introducing the VR Event Calendar, in an effort to help highlight and promote the growing social VR scene.
nVidia has launched the first salvo in the impending VR GPU wars as it launched it’s newest graphics card, the GTX 980ti. The message from the GPU giant is clear: if you’re a gamer interested in either 4k or VR gaming, this is the card for you.
The Virtual Reality Foundation have announced dates for both the VRLA Summer Expo and the 2015 Proto Awards today. We take a look at what to expect from the events.
