Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great immersive design. Today we’re looking at the clever design of Stormland's weapons, multi-modal locomotion, and open-world. Editor’s Note: Stormland was released six years ago today! In celebration of the its release anniversary, we’re...

Blender, a popular free open-source modeling and animation tool, just launched its 2.83 update, which brings basic VR support via the OpenXR API. The recent release lets users step into their 3D scenes to see them up close and...

To keep you connected to the action at this weekend's SHVR Vive Jam in Shanghai we're reporting directly from the event. On day one we take a look at the setup and structure of this weekend long dev session. See...

Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled a prototype VR Headset which they claim reduce the effects of VR sickness through the use of an innovative 'stacked' display which generates naturalistic light fields. VR display technology continues to evolve rapidly, with...

VR games need to achieve high, stable performance to look good and play comfortably. Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. But there's a handful...

Tomáš Mariančík, aka Frooxius, is the developer of Sightline: The Chair, one of the most accomplished VR experiences out there. So , news that the developers and his company Solirax are building a metaverse crafting experience that allows you...

A new feature has leaked to some Samsung smartphones which is expected to bring the ability to capture 3D images and videos specifically for "Galaxy XR headsets," SamMobile has discovered. Samsung revealed its forthcoming XR headset, codenamed 'Project Moohan' (Korean...

Nokia has launched the OZO Player SDK, a cross-platform foundation for creating applications with high fidelity VR video playback. Road to VR spoke with Nokia's Head of VR Technologies, Tarif Sayed to learn more about the offering. While VR video portals like Jaunt,...

Dr. Jeff Norris works on Mission Operations Innovation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ops Lab. They've been partnering with all of the major virtual reality & augmented reality companies to accelerate the progress in space exploration, designing spacecraft, and...

COMPOUND is a VR hobby project from developer 'NotDead' which aims to immerse you in a world of lovingly crafted pixel art, retro-styled first person shooter. Update (4/6/17, 11:48PM PT): Compound has received a major update with v0.03b and has launched on SteamVR...

Dioselin Gonzalez is a senior VR engineer at Unity Labs who is working on bringing VR creation tools to the masses. Project "Carte Blanche" will be launching sometime in 2017 and will be targeting desktop VR consumers with an...

Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically. It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...

Long-time Valve VR programmer Joe Ludwig, working in his own capacity, is building an open-source platform to bring AR-like utilities into virtual reality. The project, called Aardvark, is something of an evolution of an extension of VR dashboards as...

Varjo Technologies today announced its new user interface, code-named ‘Varjo Workspace’, which is designed to seamlessly let professionals use their Windows computer applications and 3D software tools with the company's recently announced developer-focused AR/VR headset, Varjo XR-1. The company's software...

It has been a while since the guys from Kite & Lightning have been on the show, but that doesn't mean they haven't been pumping out some amazing things since we last spoke. Ikrima takes some time out of...