Hands-on: New and Improved 2016 Samsung Gear VR vs. 2015 Model
Announced alongside the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last month, the 2016 Gear VR headset is new and improved, with thoughtful backward compatibility with prior Gear VR phones. Our pal Ritchie Djamhur explores the differences compared to the 2015...
First ‘StarVR’ 210 Degree FOV Headsets Have Shipped to IMAX
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who'll...
‘Iron Man’ Director Jon Favreau’s First VR Project ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Looks Delightful
Veteran Director of Iron Man, Chef and more recently The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau has now teamed up with veteran VR production house WEVR on a brand new project entitled 'Gnomes & Goblins', a realtime VR experience set in a magical...
Opting Out of a Phobia with VR
Theresa Duringer has a fear of flying, and rather than treating her aviophobia with VR exposure therapy she's been experimenting with using VR to just completely opt out of the real-life signals of the flying experience altogether.
She's found some...
‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’ to Get Free PlayStation VR DLC ‘Jackal Assault’
Big news for fans of VR and the FPS franchise behemoth Call of Duty. The series' latest instalment Infinite Warfare, is to come with free made-for-PlayStation VR DLC 'Jackal Assault.
Covering VR news these past 4 years, there are some...
Exemplar 2 VR PC Now Available, Save $100 Through Labor Day
Today marks the launch of Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Exemplar 2 Ultimate is Road to VR’s internal test bench for VR reviews...
Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs
When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford's football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab's Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time. Belch asked Bailenson...
VR at PAX West 2016: What’s There and How to Find It
Seattle's annual PAX West 2016 gaming convention starts tomorrow with VR once again expected to have a significant presence. So, here's a reference guide on where to find VR on the show floor along with some handy expo floor...
Oculus Affirms Commitment to Gamepad Input As Touch Launch Nears, “we don’t believe gamepads are going...
While Oculus has been drumming up its soon to launch Touch VR controller for many months now, the company doesn't expect motion input to supersede the gamepad gameplay that Rift users are using today.
The introduction of an Xbox One...
Qualcomm’s New VR Headset Could the Reference Platform We’ve Been Waiting For
For a while now we've been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Now Qualcomm, a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone 'reference' platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that...
