VRGO is a Wireless VR Controller You Sit On, Kickstarter Campaign Live

We've seen some pretty crazy VR-focused motion controllers at Road to VR over the years, but this latest offering from UK based VRGO probably makes the top 5. A wireless motion controller using inertial input that you sit on....

AltspaceVR Introduces Emojis

Social VR platform AltSpaceVR has announced that users can now communicate via emoji. The initial release includes six emoticons that "let you smile, frown, laugh, heart, high-five, and wave," according to a press release announcing the new feature. Pressing number...
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‘Child of Cooper’ Teaser Trailer Shows a Dark and Surrealist World

Might and Delight, an indie game studio based in Stockholm, has released a new teaser for their upcoming project Child of Cooper. Like a peek into a fragmented nightmare, the game's tone is intriguingly unsettling. In what the team behind the...

Work All Day in Virtual Reality with Envelop VR

Envelop VR is a productivity tool that provides a virtual shell to allow users to use all of their existing 2D applications within the context of virtual reality. I had a chance to talk to the founder Bob Berry...
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Smart Vive Game Pits Tennis Players Against Themselves

SelfieTennis adds a simple VR twist to the more than 150 year old sport which allows players to practice in a way they could never do in the real world. Virtual reality is arguably at its best when it takes the...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 111): Introducing ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ With Ikrima Elhassan

  The guys from Kite & Lightning have already been on the Rev VR Podcast twice, and now Ikrima is back again to introduce their exciting new VR game title, 'Bebylon Battle Royale'. Rev VR Podcast: Episode 111 http://www.reverendkyle.com/media/com_podcastmanager/revvr_podcast_111.mp3 Before the podcast started,...

Google’s ‘Project Tango’ Competition Winners Showcase the Tech’s Potential

Google have announce the winners of their Project Tango innovators competition, designed to draw out original and impressive use cases for the computer vision, environment mapping technology. Project Tango is a computer vision project by Google designed to use depth...

K&L’s Ikrima Elhassan on Developing a Comedy Tabletop Game Bebylon

I talk with Ikrima Elhassan of Kite & Lightning about their new tabletop VR game called Bebylon Battle Royale, which is a "Vehicular Melee Party Brawler." Kite & Lightning has a made a name of creating high-end cinematic VR...

Facebook-like ‘Code of Conduct’ Governs Voice Communication in Oculus Social Alpha

Oculus released their first social platform to the world last week, a Gear VR app called Oculus Social that currently connects up to five people to watch shared viewings of Twitch and Vimeo streams. And like Facebook, Oculus' parent...

Kite & Lightning’s New VR Game Takes the Studio in a Radically Different Direction

Kite & Lightning is an LA-based creative studio that's released some of the most polished VR experiences we've seen throughout the development of the Oculus Rift. Now the studio is taking it's first step away from 'experience' and into...