London’s VRLO 4.0 Event Wrap-Up: Is VR Hype or Hope?
VRLO is a London based VR event which celebrated its fourth outing in March, just prior to VR landing (or not) on people's doorsteps worldwide. Road to VR‘s Jonathan Tustain was there to report from the show armed with...
Zotac Has an Untethered VR PC Solution for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
Small form factor PC specialist Zotac are about to enter the virtual reality hardware race with a nifty solution to your tethered, cable-lugging room-scale VR woes; A portable PC that can be strapped to your back.
Consumer virtual reality is...
Some Oculus Rift Orders Shipping Significantly Ahead of Delay Estimates
The Oculus Rift launch saga continues. Following a surprise delay of nearly two months, some orders are now shipping out significantly ahead of the initial delay estimates provided by Oculus. Meanwhile, eager customers seek the fastest way to get...
‘HTC Vive’ App Returns to iOS to Keep You (Somewhat) Connected to Your iPhone Inside the Vive
While we first saw the HTC Vive iOS app appear at the end of March, it had vanished by the Vive's April 5th launch day. Now the app has returned to the App Store to keep you connected to your...
Getting Ramped up on VR with Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist
Liv Erikson was able to to live out one of her dreams when she stepped into the Star Wars universe to battle against a lightsaber training Remote within Sixense's VR demo. This helped her discover that she has a...
Comparing ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ VR Experiences: Oculus Rift Vs PlayStation VR
This week at Fanfest 2016, CCP Games has announced that EVE: Valkyrie will not only find its way to all three major VR headsets, but will also allow cross-platform play between them. We went hands-on with PC and console versions...
Transforming Living Rooms into Classrooms with the Virtual World Society
Tom Furness has been working in virtual reality longer than anyone else on the planet, and he's starting a new phase of his legendary career: building a coalition of content creators and financial backers through the Virtual World Society...
Preview: ‘Pollen’ is ‘Gone Home’ for Hard Sci-Fi Fans, Motion Control Coming Soon
It's 1995. The world looks a little different after the failed assassination of JFK. In a bid to open-source all US and Soviet space patents, the Space Race booms into a new era of long-haul interplanetary travel—spearheaded of course by a...
Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat
Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation.
I was able...
VR Chief to Explain “Google’s Vision for VR” in Hour-long Session at I/O 2016
Google have been floating at the periphery of serious commitment to virtual reality since the launch of their ultra low-cost Android Cardboard VR platform in 2014. But this year's Google I/O session schedule indicates it's about to throw some...
