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Sneak Peek at The VOID’s Latest Tech to Feature at TED 2016

The VOID, the virtual reality theme park experience, has caused quite a stir in the industry over the last 12 months. Now, the company are taking their free-roaming brand of mixed reality entertainment to TED2016 and Road to VR's...

Stanford Unveils ‘Light Field Stereoscope’ a VR Headset to Reduce Fatigue and Nausea

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...

Google Daydream SDK Launches Out of Beta, Adds Unity Integration

After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google's platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 and is now ready for download. Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has...
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This Star Trek Enterprise Virtual Tour is VR Ready and Absolutely Incredible

We've already seen a fair few fan-made virtual reality recreations of popular sci-fi franchise, but this latest recreation of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Enterprise-D starship will redefine your expectations from future efforts. It stands to reason that for people...

Exclusive: Nokia Launches OZO Player SDK, a Cross-platform Video Playback Engine for VR Apps

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,...

Valve to Sell Base Stations Directly, Lower Barrier to SteamVR Tracking Development

Valve today announced plans to begin selling SteamVR Tracking base stations directly later this year; the first units on offer are expected to be the new single-rotor models the company recently teased. Valve is also making it easier to...

Start Making Google Daydream VR Apps Today with a DIY Dev Kit

This week Google announced Daydream, the company's initiative for high-end mobile virtual reality. While Google didn't reveal a dedicated dev kit, the company says developers can cobble together their own using the Nexus 6P smartphone, Cardboard, and a spare phone. Google says...
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Unity’s VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God

At a special event at GDC this morning, Unity's Principal Designer Timoni West showed off the latest prototype of Unity's new Virtual Reality editor that lets you build VR applications and games as if you were a god. The two biggest...

‘Neos’ Aims to be the Google Docs of VR World Building

We catch up with Sightline creator Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík whose work to create the Google Docs of VR world building with his latest project Neos, is progressing rapidly. We've not heard much of Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the developer behind the excellent...

Devs Behind ‘Max Payne’ and ‘Quantum Break’ Form New VR House, ‘3rd Eye Studios’

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...

VR Interface Design Contest with $10,000 in Cash Prizes Launched by Purple Pill

Immersive content agency Purple Pill has announced a VR interface design competition and is offering $10,000 in cash prizes to those who create the best virtual reality interfaces. From gaze-based interaction modalities to laser pointer menus to skeuomorphic knobs and...

Only Select Developers Can Publish Google Daydream Apps Until 2017

Google Daydream is supposed to launch Fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps to the Google Play store until 2017. Daydream, Google's high-end VR initiative for Android, is set to launch...

How Mozilla Plans to Build VR Into the Foundation of the Web

Though people speak of the 'metaverse'—a vast network of interconnected virtual worlds—as a far flung future concept, in reality we already have the underlying structure built and functioning on a massive scale; it's called the internet and it connects billions...

Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. Although many probably assumed that Valve's collection of VR experiences,...

VR Industry’s Biggest Players Are Banding Together to Create an Open VR Standard

The Khronos Group announced on Tuesday that they have a critical mass of major VR players who are collaborating on a VR open standard. This VR open standard will have a software and hardware component that will enable VR...
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