EVE: Valkyrie Will Ship With Every Oculus Rift at Launch

CCP Games have announced that their made-for-VR online, multi-player space shooter EVE: Valkyrie, will ship free with every consumer Oculus Rift VR headset at launch, some time in Q1 2016. Today, CCP Games have announced that their first made-for-VR title...

Going Beyond Gaming and Entertainment with Clay Park VR’s Shauna Heller

Shauna Heller worked as a developer relations specialist focusing on non-gaming and non-entertainment experiences at Oculus for a year and a half before leaving to start her consultancy Clay Park VR. She's had a lot of exposure to the...
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First Look at ‘Flickr VR’, High Quality User-Generated 360 Photos on Gear VR

Flickr has today released their Gear VR app that lets you browse through some its best user-generated 360 photos—all at an impressively high quality and delivered at a speed that's quicker than you can say 'Revontulikaari' (that's 'Northern Lights Arc' in...

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...