GDC Round Table: Valve’s ‘The Lab’ & Survival Wave Shooters as VR’s FPS
Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang and writer Scott Hayden join me in our third and final GDC round table discussion talking about our demo highlights including Valve's The Lab and a series of different shooters. There is a...
UK Retailer Currys Lets You Go Hands-on With the HTC Vive Right Now
We're just a few weeks out from the consumer arrival of two major VR systems, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The biggest problem with VR however, is that in order to understand it's potential, you need to try...
OptiTrack’s Precise ‘Void’ Style Tracking Lets You Play Real Basketball in VR
World renowned motion capture specialists OptiTrack were at GDC this year demonstrating their mo-cap systems integrated with VR simulations. They chose to highlight their wide-area, camera based optical tracking solution using a basketball demo which let players handle, bounce...
Serious Simulations Claim Their ‘Zero Frame Latency’ Tech Can Make VR Headsets Wireless
Serious Simulations, a virtual reality, military training solutions provider, say they may have a solution to the tethered desktop virtual reality conundrum. Serious claim that their wireless streaming solution is capable of delivering wireless streaming video at a latency...
Watch Epic Games’ Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal’s VR Editor
Epic senior designer Nick Donaldson schooled us on some of the intricacies of Unreal's new VR Editor, modifying a pre-built demo scene using the Oculus Rift and Touch controller in the Epic booth at GDC.
The Unreal VR Editor announced just last month...
GDC 2016: Valve Software, Advanced VR Rendering Performance – Live Blog @4PM PST
For VR developers, keeping a high (90FPS+) and consistent frame rate is probably one of the biggest challenges they'll face bringing games to market. In this session, Valve's Alex Vlachos, Graphics Programmer, discusses techniques to adaptively alter your game's fidelity in...
GDC 2016 Round Table Discussion – PlayStation VR, Minecraft VR, Star Wars and More
I'm joined again by Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang & writer Scott Hayden to do a wrap-up of Wednesday's GDC news including all of Sony's PlayStation VR Announcements, the Star Wars Trials on Tatooine experience by ILMxLAB, and...
Preview: ‘John Wick: The Impossible Task’ Puts You in the Shoes of an Elite Assassin
John Wick - The Impossible Task is an upcoming shooter from Starbreeze Studios working in collaboration with WEVR, Grab Games and Lionsgate that throws you into the John Wick universe for dual pistol-wielding action. We went hands on with the demo shown at this year's GDC...
Oculus’ Jason Rubin on Rift and Touch Games “We’re Not Launching a Dev Kit”
The Oculus Rift will land in people's homes from March 28th and there'll soon be 1000s of people hunting for new content to play in virtual reality. Oculus is of course keenly aware of this, and Jason Rubin, Head...
Save $100 on Road to VR Exemplar Gaming PC During GDC
With the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive just weeks away, you're going to need a PC capable of meeting the extreme levels of performance that high-end virtual reality demands. Road to VR's Exemplar PC gives you that...














