Last month, Rothenberg Ventures launched 'River', an accelerator through which they committed to investing $100,000 in 10 seed-stage virtual reality startups. Today the company has announced that its decided to bump the inaugural class count up to 13, totalling...

The PC VR population has been growing ever so steadily over the last four years. Meanwhile, the MacOS population has shrunk and been overtaken by VR. If you were just looking at the percent of the Steam population with monthly-connected...

Somehow another year has come and gone. 2024 will mark the 13th year that we've been following this XR journey here at Road to VR. With an eye on that long-term perspective, it's once again time to reflect on...

Today marks the start of the SHVR Vive Jam, a weekend-long event giving Chinese developers a chance to prototype room-scale experiences on the HTC Vive. Hosted at the Transist office in Shanghai, the jam has drawn developers from across...

Meta revealed its Orion prototype last year to show the progress it has made toward compact AR glasses. Today the company talked more about the prototyping process, especially regarding the 'compute puck' that offloads much of the heavy processing...

Ahead of the 2018 Game Developers Conference in March, the organizer, UBM, has released their sixth annual State of the Game Industry survey, offering insight into the thoughts of some 4,000 game developers. While many developers may not be...

Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural. Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be...

Chinese AR startup Rokid launched a Kickstarter campaign yesterday for Rokid Glasses, a new version of the company's smart glasses with green monochrome displays which previously launched in China. Now, after 24 hours, the project has already garnered over...

Vrgineers, the US-Czech company known for its wide-FOV PC VR headsets for enterprise, announced it's secured a $6 million Series A investment. The funding round was led by Taiwania Capital, a venture capital firm based in Taipei, Taiwan. Returning investors include...

Flight simulator company Dogfight Boss, and Varjo, the high-end XR headset creator, announced they've shipped their first mixed reality F-16 simulator to the Ukrainian Air Force to help accelerate pilot training. And there's likely more to come, as the...

The latest release of Unity, version 2017.1 now officially supports NVIDIA's VRWorks rendering tech. VRWorks contains a number of rendering features unique to the company's GPUs which are designed to improve performance in VR applications. Update (7/13/17):  After several months...

Thanks to the recent, headline-capturing releases of both the Vive and the Rift, investment money is continuing to pour into VR-based initiatives and complimentary hardware. An additional $40 million in Series C funding has gone into the coffers of...

Following this week's news that AltspaceVR, one of the first social VR platforms, is shutting down, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who is no longer with the company, queried the community to ask if he should seek to save AtlspaceVR...

Valve today announced that it's bringing its wireless PC VR streaming software, Steam Link, to five more headsets from PICO and HTC. The company also plans to make it easier for headset makers to bring Steam Link to even more...

Virtualitics is new company started by NASA JPL and Caltech alum. offering a new platform to leverage the immersive properties of virtual reality in order to better aid human comprehension and use of 'Big Data'. You've likely heard the term...