News Bits: MemoRift the VR Emulator Interface – Demo Now Available For Download

We reported on MemoRift a little while back and admired it's approach to providing users looking for a virtual reality room in which to experience your nostalgic applications within. We bring good news. MemoRift R1 is now available from their...

Firefox Gets VR API For Browser-based Virtual Reality, Early Developer Examples Emerge

Those who are old enough to remember VRML, will recall that the the technology rode the wave of virtual reality hype in the 90's, fusing the burgeoning world wide web with a vision of dragging the Metaverse from the...

News Bits: Google I/O Cardboard Talk Video Released

As we reported recently, Google fair shook up the mobile and VR world a few days ago by releasing a new venture designed to highlight and push virtual reality on it's Android mobile operating system. Google Cardboard is a low...

News Bits: Cyber Space VR Theme Park Ride Simulator Now Lets You Eject, World Scale Fixed

We reported on RiftAway's venture into white knuckle fantasy ride simulator Cyber Space a little while ago and mused on it's potential status as the ultimate in testing your VR Legs. Now, RiftAway has released a new version of the...

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...

News Bits: Hang Out With Optimus Prime In This New Oculus Rift Demo

As we reported yesterday with Benjamin Teitler's impressive mo-capped Lightsaber demo for the Oculus Rift, re-living your fantasies of youth can be made reality through the power of VR. Now, developer Tipatat, who was behind the recent Matrix Oculus rift...

‘Walkmouse’ is an Elegant, Untethered, Motorised Omni-Directional Treadmill

If someone had come to me three years ago and said "Omni-directional treadmills, they'll be a thing soon" - I'd have laughed in their faces. Three years on and whilst input devices that aim to take natural walking, running...

News Bits: Palmer Luckey Joins Community in VR Chat for Informal 2 Hour Q&A

VR Chat is the go-to application for socialising in virtual reality and is used extensively by the VR community for doing just that. Cymatic Bruce's post Live Stream meetups in VR Chat have by all accounts been a great...