Making Calls in VR with HTC Vive’s Bluetooth Functions
Voice calling and messaging comes to the HTC Vive VR system with HTC's Voice Services. We show you how to set it up and tell you if it's any good or not.
HTC's announcement at the Mobile World Congress early...
New Android Developer Preview Shows First Hints of “Virtual Reality Mode”
It's been clear for some time that Google's virtual reality ambitions extend beyond Cardboard and now we're seeing the first hints that the company will be integrating VR functionality into Android N, the next major release of the company's...
‘VR Duck Hunt’ Team Wants to Build Your Favorite Arcade Classic, Vote Now
Want to see your favorite classic arcade game realized in virtual reality? The makers of a VR prototype of Duck Hunt for HTC Vive are taking suggestions from the community to do just that.
The campaign is called VRcade Challenge, and there are more...
One of VR’s Best ‘First Time’ Experiences Comes to CV1 and HTC Vive
Consistently a firm favourite here at Road to VR, Sightline: The Chair is an award winning 'greatest hits' of VR vignettes that happen to be one of the best introductions to virtual reality. The developer just released the latest...
Amazon Brings Road to VR’s Expert Insights to Virtual Reality Hub
Today we're pleased to announce a partnership with Amazon, the world's largest retailer, which leverages Road to VR's expertise to educate and inform those buying VR systems for the first time.
Amazon's Virtual Reality Hub page connects customers to the latest...
Empathizing with a War-Torn Family in ‘Giant’
Milica Zec grew up in war-torn Serbia, but this was a part of her life that she preferred to just forget about and leave behind. After telling screenwriter Lizzie Donahue her story, she was encouraged to tell her story...
Preview: ‘Intone’ is an Audio-Visual Experiment That Could Worry Your Neighbors
Intone is an interactive audio-visual experience built by indie dev Dan Scott (aka 'wheatgrinder'), and while the experiment may seem fairly simple in concept—control the blocks with the sound of your voice—the effects are everything but. Beware: everyone in your vicinity will think you've gone...
Selfies in VR: Facebook Reveals Social VR Prototype
Facebook today revealed an early prototype of a social VR space during their F8 developer conference, presented on-stage live by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and by Social VR product manager Michael Booth some 30 miles away.
Like all online social VR applications, Schoepfer and Booth entered Facebook's...
Kokoromi Collective’s Heather Kelley on Designing ‘SUPERHYPERCUBE’
One of my favorite VR games is the Kokoromi Collective's SUPERHYPERCUBE, which is a very stylized 3D Tetris game with amazing sound design. It's a VR experience that really gives your brain a stimulating spatial memory workout. I first...
The Problem With Projections and What Makes the Just-released ‘2016 VR Industry Report’ Different
Today we publish the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report. Co-authored with VR business intelligence firm Greenlight VR, the report is a distillation of years of experience, research, and analysis into an accessible and comprehensive foundation of the virtual reality landscape, with the...
