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...
HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about...
Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved.
Despite copious concept videos showing...
Oculus Touch Price Revealed in London GAME Store
Touch, the long awaited natural input controller for the Oculus Rift, still doesn't have an official price or release date—but a tweet from Nick Summers, associate editor at Engadget UK, has revealed that Oculus Touch is going to be priced...
Leaked Input Device May Explain Why Investors Just Dropped $120 Million into Thalmic Labs
Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million...
