Road to VR Named ‘Official Partner’ of VRDC 2016
Today we're proud to announce that Road to VR has been selected as the official partner of VRDC 2016, the VR-centric event complementing the forthcoming GDC 2016.
As the destination of some of the most important reveals in the history...
‘Flickr VR’ 360 Photo App Released for Samsung Gear VR
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned image and video hosting website, has today released a Samsung Gear VR app that lets you view the top rated 360-degree photos from the platform's global userbase.
Flickr boasts over 60,000 panoramic photos on their site currently, a...
Oculus Story Studio and HBO to Talk Immersive Storytelling at VRDC
At VRDC 2016, the VR conference counterpart to GDC, representatives from Oculus Story Studio and HBO will explore their approaches to immersive storytelling.
VRDC runs from March 14–15 brings, and brings a VR specific focus alongside the broader GDC 2016...
Predicting the Future of VR and AR with Gartner’s Brian Blau
Brian Blau is the research director in the personal technologies group at Gartner specializing in mobile apps and video game software in the consumer domain. He's also been analyzing the market for virtual and augmented reality for the past...
“Second Generation” HTC Vive Development Kit to Debut at CES in January
HTC today announced that it will be launching the "second generation" of the HTC Vive Developer Kit at CES 2016 in January.
HTC made the announcement today via a blog update which confirmed a delay of the commercial launch of...
HTC Vive Delayed to 2016, 7,000 Additional Developer Kits Coming Early Next Year
In an update to the company's blog today, HTC has announced that the Vive VR headset for Valve's SteamVR platform will be delayed until April 2016.
Announcing back in March that the HTC Vive would launch to consumers starting in...
Oculus Wants to “work with other hardware vendors,” Founder Reaffirms
Responding to criticisms about the potential for Oculus Rift game exclusivity, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey reaffirms that the company is interested in working with other hardware vendors through the Oculus platform.
While the Oculus Rift may be the first desktop...
A Conversation with the Creator of the Award-winning ‘The Night Café’
The Night Café is an amazingly surreal immersive VR experience of walking through a space that's inspired by a painting by Vincent van Gogh. I speak with Mac Cauley about the inspiration behind the experience, which won both the...
Sundance Announces Over 30 VR Experiences Coming to 2016 Festival
Sundance's New Frontier program, the yearly showcase supported by the Sundance Institute for works in new media, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Over 30 virtual reality installations will be present within New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival.
The New Frontier...
Tony Parisi’s ‘Learning Virtual Reality’ Book Now Available
At the end of November, around 60 people gathered at the offices of Rothenberg Ventures in downtown San Francisco to celebrate the release of VR pioneer Tony Parisi's new book Learning Virtual Reality. For the uninitiated, Tony is recognized...
