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Valve Proclaims “VR IS HERE” to Millions of Steam Users, New Vive Promo Focuses on Group-Play

Valve is pushing the HTC Vive in full force today—no surprise considering it's the official launch day of the SteamVR-compatible headset. Adding to proclamation that "VR is here," which is smack dab on Steam's front page that nearly tens of...
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First Look: NVIDIA Reveals Iray VR for “Breakthrough Photoreal Virtual Reality”

NVIDIA at GTC 2016 today has announced Iray VR, a virtual reality adaptation of their Iray ray-tracing engine. The company says it enables "breakthrough photoreal". On stage CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed a quick demo of the rendering technology in action. Iray...

Valve’s Chet Faliszek on HTC Vive Launch Title Highlights

Valve's Chet Faliszek has been a key virtual reality evangelist & developer relations liaison over the past couple of years for the HTC Vive, and I had a chance to sit down with him at GDC as they were...

EVE: Valkyrie is Coming to HTC Vive this Year, CCP Confirms

It seems that the game people most associate with and indeed shipped alongside the Oculus Rift, is coming to the HTC Vive this year. EVE:Valkyrie has evolved alongside the Oculus Rift since the early days and the association with the...

Watch NVIDIA’s GTC 2016 Opening Keynote Livestream at 9:00AM PT

It's GTC 2016 week and NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang takes to the stage at 9:00AM for an opening keynote that will discuss how the GPU intersects artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. Join us here for the livestream. GTC...

HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space

We go hands on with Valve and HTC’s new room-scale virtual reality system the Vive and discover that with incredible VR experiences come great real estate requirements. We’ve been reporting on virtual reality since 2011 here at Road to VR, and it’s...
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4 Videos That Take You Inside Valve’s ‘The Lab’

The HTC Vive is here, and we're finally allowed to show you The Lab, Valve's Portal-themed playground of VR demos that gives you a beautifully cohesive tour of what's possible with room-scale VR. To get a better look at just what it had...

HoloLens Enterprise Mixed Reality Development with Object Theory

HoloLens development kits started shipping last week following Microsoft's Build conference and there were also a number of NDAs that were lifted, which allowed some companies to start talking about their HoloLens projects for the first time. One of...
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New ‘Fantastic Contraption’ Mixed-Reality Trailer Teases Twitch Chat Integration

Fantastic Contraption, a building game from Northway Games, is launching tomorrow alongside the HTC Vive, and you'd be forgiven if you're caught drooling over the newest peek into the studio's mixed reality gameplay teaser. We know we are. Twitch streamers may have noticed...

Lenovo Jumps into VR with Enterprise VR Ready System Touting Two $5,000 GPUs

Lenovo revealed at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) their new line of Nvidia certified VR Ready computers, the company's next step in VR dedicated hardware. And if you're thinking of getting your hands on the new line of ThinkStations—the P910, P710, and P510—you...