Facebook Experimenting with Live VR Video ‘Teleportation Station’, Adding 360 Video with Oculus Rift Playback

At Facebook's F8 conference which kicked off today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to open the event. There he revealed that the company will bring support for 360 degree video to the Facebook News Feed, capable of playback...

Hands-on: Sony’s 120Hz Morpheus Demo, ‘Magic Controller’, and ‘Bedroom Robots’

With the reveal of Sony's 2015 Morpheus prototype, the company surprised the VR space with the announcement that the headset would support a 120Hz refresh rate, significantly higher than the 90Hz of the competition. We went hands-on with the...

Leap Motion Partners with OSVR to Provide Integrated Sensor Faceplate for HDK

Leap Motion are furthering their commitment to the Open Source Virtual Reality initiative. They're working with OSVR to produce a Leap Motion enabled faceplate for the project's flagship VR Headset, the HDK. The OSVR initiative, spearheaded by VR headset veterans...
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CCP Games’ Sigurður Gunnarsson Shares EVE: Valkyrie’s Origin Story

Sigurður G. Gunnarsson is a member of the VR's new-wave 'old guard'. As one of the original initiators of what was originally known as EVE-VR, the 20% project started by CCP VR enthusiasts, he's watched EVE: Valkyrie and VR's resurgence flourish....

‘Roto VR’: the Chair That Aims to Drastically Reduce Sim Sickness, Kickstarter Now Live

Roto VR has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for its rotating chair design that promises to reduce simulator induced nausea, and give the user more control inside the virtual environment without getting tangled up in wires. Roto VR, a London based company,...
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Video Essay: “Is technology changing storytelling?” by Rogier Postma, Watch it Here First

Storytelling is evolving in response to advances in interactive technology, but how is that manifesting itself? Road to VR present the premiere of this video essay by Rogier Postima,  a veteran filmmaker of 15 years, which aims to explore...

Reload Studios’ Multiplayer FPS Revealed as ‘World War Toons’ (Screenshot Gallery)

Reload Studios, a startup comprising ex-members of Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, have unveiled details of their new multiplayer first person shooter, built from the ground up in virtual reality. It's called World War Toons. Reload Studios' heritage must...
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CCP Games’ Adam Kraver on How VR Labs are ‘Getting Players into the Game’

Adam Kraver, Architect at CCP's recently unveiled VR Labs, speaks to Ben Lang at Fanfest 2015 about how his team is experimenting with virtual reality to "bring people into the VR space". CCP's VR Labs is only around a year...

Notes on Crescent Bay – Fresnel Lenses, Fixed Black Smear, Light Ray Artifact, and More

It's difficult to get a real sense of Crescent Bay, Oculus' latest Rift prototype, because outsiders are only ever in the headset for a few minutes at a time. Having now logged a number of sessions, I'm starting to...

Björk’s 360 VR Music Video “Stone Milker” Debuts Tomorrow, Powered by 3DCeption Audio

Björk is previewing her latest Single "Stone Milker" tomorrow with a music video filmed for virtual reality and leveraging the power of 3D spatial audio as provided by specialists in the field, Two Big Ears and 3DCeption. Linear, non-interactive, immersive...