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Watch the ‘Godfather of VR’ Ivan Sutherland Speak at the 2015 Proto Awards

The 2015 Proto Awards are over for another year, and as attendees awake from their after-party hangovers, footage from the event is emerging. One of the biggest highlight this year was the surprise appearance of Ivan Sutherland who accepted...
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‘Ixian Gate’ is a Mind-bending VR Ride Through the World of Artist Jess Johnson

Ixian Gate is a unique, psychedelic virtual reality experience formed from a collaboration between artist Jess Johnson, Music Video director Simon Ward and VFX artist Kenny Smith, based on Johnson's dazzlingly bizarre creations. The results of this unlikely pairing is teased in...

NVIDIA Bring Full GTX 980 GPU to Claimed “First Virtual Reality Notebooks”

NVIDIA have just announced that their bringing their desktop class GTX 980 GPU to portable computers. Not to be confused with the lower powered GTX 980M, found on many 'performance' laptops currently, this initiative supposedly offers identical performance to...
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Latest HTC Vive Promo Highlights Developer Talent

This latest promo video from HTC, highlights the enthusiasm the featured developers have for the Vive's SteamVR powered "room-scale VR". SteamVR developers Cloudhead Games (The Gallery: Call of the Starseed), Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator), Phaser Lock Ineractive (Final Approach)...

StarVR 210-Degree VR Headset to Receive Eye-tracking Support Courtesy of Tobii

Starbreeze, an "independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products" has announced that its StarVR headset will receive eye-tracking support as the result of a partnership between specialist in the field, Tobii. Starbreeze's StarVR headset made quite the splash...

Luckey Kills Gear VR Positional Tracking Rumors, “VR-grade inside-out tracking is not currently workable on mobile”

With Oculus' annual Connect developer conference now less than 24 hours away, the VR community at large is saturated with excited speculation about what might be revealed. One thing we won't be seeing at the event, says Oculus founder...

Oculus Founder Affirms “We won’t be launching Rift preorders” at Oculus Connect

In a move seemingly designed to diffuse mounting expectations of VR enthusiasts everywhere on the eve of Oculus' Connect developer conference, Palmer has quelled any hopes of Oculus Rift CV1 pre-order at the show. However, seems like we may...

Join Road to VR for Daily Oculus Connect Recaps in AltspaceVR

Oculus' 2nd developer conference 'Connect' is almost here, starting on the 22nd September running for three days. For this year's event, Road to VR are taking to the social virtual reality social platform AltspaceVR to bring you the chance to enjoy...

The Uncanny Valley Effect in Training Scenarios with Human-Virtual Human Interactions

Himanshu Chaturvedi wanted to investigate the impact of the uncanny valley within training simulations that include interactions with virtual humans. The specific training scenario was a simulation for nurses to help them identify the signs of rapid deterioration. They...
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Preview: ‘Late Night Shop’ is a Nightmare Where Mannequins Come to Life

Late Night Shop is a first person 'mannequin evader' built by Plymouth, England based studio Total Monkery. The game, which is currently in pre-alpha, is excruciatingly close to a personal nightmare of store mannequins come to life. Much like the...