Welcome to the New Road to Virtual Reality
Hi and welcome to the new Road to VR. If you've been a regular reader, you'll notice that things look at bit different. Fear not, looks are indeed the only thing that have changed. This refresh of the site...
Oculus Rift 2.0, 1080p+ High FoV HMD / VR Headset by 2013 Under $1000?
Much has happened since the Oculus Rift Head Mounted Display / VR headset started picking up steam in May. Palmer Luckey has been teasing that he was in discussion with some big names in gaming, and today he's ready...
Oculus Rift Kickstarter Coming July 19th, Even Cheaper Than Before
Finally an update on the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. The head mounted display that's been... er... turning heads... has been teasing us with an upcoming Kickstarter campaign. The original plan was for it to go live in the middle of...
The Latest on Google Glass: Early Technical Details, Pre-order Units Made Available to I/O Attendees for $1500
Yesterday I showed you Google's incredible live Glass demo where they took Project Glass on a skydiving adventure. Today I want to compile all of the Project Glass info that came out of Google I/O 2012 in one place....
Google Goes Skydiving with Glass, Live [video]
Since Google's announcement of Project Glass, the company has remained quite silent on their augmented reality glasses project. We saw Project Glass in an interview with Charlie Rose back in April, but that was nothing compared to Google's latest...
Oculus Rift Units to Arrive Earlier than Planned, “Really Big Names in the Game Industry” Getting Involved!
The VR community seems to be holding its collective breath to see what impact the Oculus Rift head mounted display will have on the future of virtual reality gaming. Patiently folks are waiting for the Kickstarter funding round to start...
Condition One Working on a Standard Way to Shoot and Embed Immersive 180 Degree Video, Content for the Oculus Rift?
Condition One aims to achieve a standardized way of capturing and displaying immersive 180 degree video. The company is a startup founded by noted photographer Danfung Dennis. Currently the product takes the form of an iPad app in which the...
Virtual Reality and Oculus Rift E3 2012 Interview with John Carmack [video]
One of the reasons why I'm so excited about the Oculus Rift is that John Carmack, founder and technical director of Id Software, is demoing the unit to people within the gaming industry and is building full support for it...
Early Oculus Rift Specifications and Official Site, Confirms $500 Target
Right now the Oculus Rift project is at the center of my attention. If you haven't read up on it, see here. In short, I'm hoping that this is the first major step in bringing virtual reality to mainstream gaming....
Oculus Rift HMD Kickstarter to Begin no Later than June 14th
I'm away from a full blown computer this weekend, so please excuse the brevity of this post. I'm writing from my phone because I wanted to share some brief but exciting information regarding the Oculus Rift that I wrote...
