This ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Mod Lets You Play ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ in VR
Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is already inspiring modders to strip Valve's flagship VR title of assets and character models for their own strange and wonderful devices. Exhibit A: you can now play some Wolfenstein 3D in VR, replete with HLA's guns, grenades,...
Road to VR Readership Survey 2020
Road to VR is running a survey with our partner Gamer Network to better understand our audience. Your participation is entirely optional and anonymous, but we’d be thrilled if you’d share your responses with us.
You may recall that Road to VR partnered...
XR Swim is a Much Needed Centralized Portal for Discovering WebXR Experiences
While we've talked plenty about the power of WebXR—a standard which makes it possible to deliver VR experiences directly from web browsers—there hasn't been a centralized destination to discover WebXR apps as users would expect from other content platforms....
Comic Book-inspired Horror Survival ‘Lies Beneath’ Now Available on Rift
Lies Beneath (2020), the Oculus-exclusive survival horror VR game from Gunheart (2018) creators Drifter Entertainment, launched late last month on Oculus Quest. Now Rift users can get into the fun too, if you can call being slightly traumatized "fun".
We generally liked Lies Beneath...
Microsoft is Expanding HoloLens 2 Availability with “tens of thousands” Shipped to Date
Microsoft started shipping HoloLens 2 back in November 2019, but it's been a slow rollout to select customers. While the company says it has shipped "tens of thousands" of HoloLens 2 headset to "hundreds" of enterprise customers, it hasn't...
Mind-bending VR Adventure ‘The Under Presents’ Coming to Steam This Week
The Under Presents (2019), the multiplayer theatrical adventure originally built for Quest and Rift, is heading to Steam on April 16th, which includes support for all standard SteamVR-compatible headsets.
Created by indie studio Tender Claws, known for its breakout hit VR experience Virtual...
These Are the Countries Where You Can Still Buy Quest & Rift S Direct From Oculus
With a successful holiday season under its belt, Facebook was no doubt looking forward to resupplying its retail partners with more Oculus Quest & Rift S stock. However in a perfect storm of high demand, low supply, and on-going...
Valve Explains the Deceptively Simple Design Process That Made ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Excellent
The secret to Half-Life: Alyx's near-universal acclaim is... well, not as secret as you might think. Yes, the game surely had a budget much larger than any other VR game to date, but it's far more than money that makes a...
Etee SteamVR Controller Creators Share ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gameplay and Q&A
Etee, the finger-tracking VR controller with SteamVR Tracking, has nearly reached its Kickstarter goal with plenty of time to spare. Though the controller is designed to be free of buttons, sticks, and triggers (relying instead on finger tracking), its...
Mozilla Updates the Unity WebXR Exporter to Run VR Apps in the Browser
WebXR is an open standard which allows VR apps to run directly from web browsers. While the tools for building WebXR apps are designed to be familiar to web developers, many VR developers use game engine tools like Unity...
