Google’s Project Starline is a Light-field Display System for Immersive Video Calls
This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web.
This week during...
‘Puzzle Bobble VR’ Review – a Bright, Bubble-shaped Diamond in the Rough
Puzzle Bobble (1994), also known as Bust-a-Move in the West, pioneered the tile-matching puzzle genre, not only inspiring generations of mobile games like Candy Crush Saga, but also spawning uncountable clones throughout the decades. The 2D game is known for its simple but...
‘A Rogue Escape’ to Release June 10th, Splicing Mech Combat & Escape Room in VR
Developer Spare Parts Oasis and publisher Armor Games Studios announced that A Rogue Escape, a VR reimaging of PC puzzle game Nauticrawl (2019), is coming to PC VR headsets on June 10th.
Update (May 20th, 2021): It's been six months since we last saw A...
VR Locomotion Device ‘DecaMove’ Attracts $350K in Preorder Campaign
Megadodo Simulation Games, the Singapore-based startup behind the upcoming PC VR headset DecaGear, announced that its hip-based VR locomotion device DecaMove has generated over $350,000 in sales over the course of its month-long preorder campaign.
The small puck-like device was...
Quest 2 Delisted on Amazon EU Due to a Skin Irritation Issue, Oculus Says it Will...
Since last week Oculus Quest 2 had disappeared across a range of Amazon EU websites. Oculus says it was due to previously reported skin irritation caused by the facepad on a small number of units. While the company says...
Facebook’s Previous Head of Oculus & Reality Labs Partnerships Leaves Company
Hugo Barra, one-time head of Oculus and VP of Facebook Reality Labs partnerships, has announced that he's left Facebook.
Barra announced the news in a Facebook post, saying that May 17th was his last day at the company. Barra says...
Arena Shooter ‘Solaris Offworld Combat’ Comes to PSVR Today
First Contact Entertainment is finally bringing its most recent team VR shooter, Solaris Offworld Combat (2020), to PSVR today.
First launched on Oculus Quest and Rift late last year, the 4v4 arena shooter has struggled to replicate the same level of...
Exclusive Hands-on: DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization
DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced the Design v1, a modular reference headset which the company hopes will accelerate the development and consumerization of truly glasses-sized AR headsets. Road to VR got an exclusive hands-on demo of the...
Quest 2 Update Adds Video Overlay for Casting, File Browser, & Phone Notifications in VR
Another big update to Quest and Quest 2 is on the way. Oculus today announced that the v29 update will begin rolling out to users "soon" (likely starting this week), and will bring a video overlay feature to casting,...
‘VTOL’ Studio to Release Kart-style Airplane Racer ‘Jetborne Racing’ on PC VR Soon
Boundless Dynamics, the studio behind combat flight simulator VTOL VR (2017), is getting ready to release a new online racing game soon for PC VR headsets which puts your flying skills to the test and throws plenty of kart-style powerups...
