Google Daydream SDK Launches Out of Beta, Adds Unity Integration

After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google's platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 and is now ready for download. Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has...

This Fun PvP Vive Game Brings Frantic Bomberman-Style Action to VR

MNGOVR's new title for HTC Vive is a wildly colourful and fantastically fun PVP title which seemingly draws inspiration from the Hudson Soft classic Bomberman and is at once wonderfully simple and frantically addictive. Bomberman from Hudson Soft represented some...

Oculus Founder Issues Statement After Developer Backlash to Polarizing Politics

Eyes have been on Palmer Luckey, the founder of Facebook-owned Oculus, following an article linking him to 'Nimble America', a polarizing political group that's been described as part of the fringe 'alt-right'. Following developer and community backlash, Luckey has issued...

SEA VR Rebrands as ‘Immerse Technology Summit’, Returns October 11th

SEA VR, the largest VR conference in the Pacific Northwest, has renamed itself as the “Immerse Technology Summit,” and will be held this year on October 11th in Bellevue, Washington. The summit organizers say they dropped the “VR” moniker...

Five Universal Tasks of 3D User Interfaces with Doug Bowman

In 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave "The Mother of All Demos" where he gave the first public demonstration of a mouse as a computer control device. For the last 48 years, the mouse and keyboard have remained the primary input...

Hands-on: Capcom’s Resident Evil “Kitchen” Demo is Terrifying on PSVR

Capcom brought its Resident Evil VII “Kitchen” demo to PAX West this year, and Road to VR went hands on to try it out. The demo takes place before the events of Resident Evil VII’s main storyline, and is...

Developing a New Eye Interaction Model with Eyefluence

I had a chance to do a demo of Eyefluence, which has created a new model for eye interactions within virtual and augmented reality apps. Rather than using the normal eye interaction paradigm of dwelling focus or explicitly winking...

Futuretown is Bringing Motion Platform Arcade Thrills to VR

Taipei based virtual reality company Futuretown is planning to build a out of home destination where you can experience custom built VR game experiences built for and enhanced by 3 different motion platforms. The rampant rise of video games in...

The Ambitious ‘Loading Human’ is a PlayStation VR Launch Title

Ambitious Sci-fi adventure game Loading Human from developers Untold Games is one of the first made-for-VR titles we covered and it's now been confirmed to be one of the day-one launch titles for the forthcoming PlayStation VR headset on October...

Framestore VR on Digital Lightfield Workflows & VR Ad Campaigns

When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, one of the hottest topics was figuring out the workflows for how to deal with the complexity of capturing, processing, and distributing volumetric digital light fields. Otoy's Jules Urbach had a lot...