‘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...

Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google Research engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a "new approach to hand perception." First unveiled at CVPR 2019 back in June, Google's on-device, real-time...

Report: HoloLens 2 Could Go on Sale in September

The second-generation HoloLens, first unveiled at Mobile World Congress earlier this year in Barcelona, still doesn't have a firm release date yet, although it appears that's about to change pretty soon. As reported by Reuters, Microsoft's executive vice president Harry...

VR Racing Sim ‘DiRT Rally’ Available Free From Humble Bundle

Digital game storefront Humble Bundle is offering DiRT Rally for free, now through September 1st. The version of the game being given away is via Steam with official support for the Oculus Rift, though unofficial support for other SteamVR headsets should...
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Have You Found These 11 Easter Eggs in Valve’s ‘The Lab’?

Valve's collection of VR-minigames, The Lab, is one of the highest rated SteamVR titles and it's free. With support for Index, Vive, Rift, and Windows VR, there's no reason not to try it if you own a PC VR headset. Beyond...

NextVR Brings Its Live Streamed Events to Oculus Quest

NextVR, the VR livestreaming event app, is now available on Oculus Quest for free, which is said to come alongside a new technology that promises clearer and sharper video rendering. The studio calls the new rendering technology 'PAVE', which is said...