Ubisoft Confirms “unannounced AAA VR project,” Building New 50 Person Team for the Task
Ubisoft, which has released five VR titles to date, confirmed that it's building a large, 50 person team to develop an "unannounced AAA project" using one of the company's well known IPs.
Ubisoft has confirmed to VRFocus that it's spinning up a...
Where to Find All Quest & Rift Cross-buy Apps in One Place
For those with both an Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest, 'cross-buy' games mean that you can buy a game once and play it on both headsets. Because the Oculus store doesn't explicitly label which games are cross-buy and which...
Filming ‘The Lion King’ in VR was like a “multiplayer filmmaking game,” Says Director
Although The Lion King (2019) might have garnered a tepid reception from film critics, there's no debating that Jon Favreau's photorealistic remake of the 1994 original film roars in the visual department. It's in part thanks to a production pipeline that...
Ubisoft Ends Post-launch Development for ‘Space Junkies’, Scraps Non-VR Version
Space Junkies (2019), the multiplayer sci-fi arena shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, has reached a pretty significant impasse; the studio is pulling its previously planned support for the flatscreen version of the game, and issuing its final update on PSVR and...
Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet
Whenever I used to think about brain-computer interfaces (BCI), I typically imagined a world where the Internet was served up directly to my mind through cyborg-style neural implants—or basically how it's portrayed in Ghost in the Shell. In that world,...
‘Until You Fall’ Index & Windows VR Support Coming in October, No Concrete Plans for Quest
Schell Games' latest VR title, Until You Fall, launched in Early Access on Steam last week to strong reviews, but currently the game only officially supports the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Come October, the developers expect to add support...
Facebook Publishes New Research on Hyper-realistic Virtual Avatars
Facebook Reality Labs, the company's AR/VR R&D group, published detailed research on a method for hyper-realistic real-time virtual avatars, expanding on prior work which the company calls 'Codec Avatars'.
Facebook Reality Labs has created a system capable of animating virtual...
‘Spice & Wolf VR’ Coming to PSVR & Nintendo Labo VR Soon, Sequel Now in Production
Japan-based studio SpicyTails announced that Spice & Wolf VR will land on PSVR and Nintendo Labo VR this week. Furthermore, the studio says that the experience's sequel is already in the making.
Based on the manga/anime Spice & Wolf, the studio celebrated two wildly...
Road to VR Readership Survey 2019
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...
PSVR Launch Title ‘Driveclub VR’ to Be Delisted from PS Store Tomorrow
Sony is taking down a few beloved games from the PlayStation Store tomorrow, including Driveclub, Driveclub Bikes, and Driveclub VR.
Servers are said to remain online until March 31st, 2020, however the Driveclub series and their DLC will be removed from...
