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‘Robinson: The Journey’ Executive Producer Departs Crytek Amid Company’s Struggles

A little more than four months following the launch of Robinson: The Journey, Executive Producer on the title, Elijah Freeman, has departed Crytek for Virtuos, a game and asset production studio. Meanwhile Crytek attempts to get company back on track. As...

Report Predicts AR and VR Headset Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new...

HTC to Sell Shanghai Phone Factory for $91 Million, Invest Proceeds in VR Business

Despite its major role in the growing VR space, HTC's overall business continues to struggle financially, posting significant losses over the last two years. Working to turn things around with a restructuring of assets and priorities, the company is...

Report: 39% of Game Developers Working on AR/VR Headsets

A survey of game developers attending the annual GDC conference suggests major growth in the number of developers building games for AR and VR headsets. The 2017 GDC State of the Game Industry report, which gathered data from 4,500 attendees of...

Facebook CEO Asks for Investor Patience on VR, ‘it’s not going to be really profitable for...

Ever since Facebook's acquisition of Oculus in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poised the move as a strategic bet on a technology that would eventually change the way we communicate. In the company's most recent earnings call, Zuckerberg asked for...

Verdict Analysis: Why the Jury Awarded ZeniMax $500 Million in Oculus Lawsuit

Following the news of a $500 million plaintiff award in the ZeniMax v. Oculus lawsuit, a detailed breakdown of the verdict reveals the jury's specific findings, and who is responsible to pay for the damages. Guest Article by Matt Hooper...

ZeniMax v. Oculus Lawsuit Awards $500M to Plaintiff, Verdict Detailed in Court Documents

While it wasn't the $4 billion slam dunk ZeniMax was hoping for, a Dallas, TX jury today awarded $500 million to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey had breached nondisclosure agreements. However, Oculus was not found to...

$4 Billion ZeniMax v. Oculus Verdict Could Come as Early as Today, Here’s What You Need...

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute...

What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations

If you're at all involved in the VR space, you likely recently saw a flurry of downtrodden headlines describing "slow," and "modest," holiday VR headset sales, with some even calling VR "the biggest loser this holiday." The impetus of those headlines...

VR-capable Frostbite Engine Suggests More AAA VR to Come from EA

It's been confirmed that the soon to launch Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission on PlayStation VR is powered by DICE's coveted Frostbite Engine, a strong hint that more AAA VR development is on the way from the company. Star...

Top Investors Discuss VR and AR Strategies and Opportunites at IMMERSE 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year's Seattle based IMMERSE Summit (previously Sea VR) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR's Michael Glombicki caught up with...

Virtual Reality Strategy Conference 2016 to Bring VR Insights to Industry Execs

A new annual conference from Greenlight Insights is angling itself to sate the growing desire for "actionable insights" from the rapidly expanding VR industry. The 2016 Virtual Reality Strategy Conference aims to layout the "new rules" of the VR...

Hands On: ESI’s Incredibly Accurate VR CAD Simulation Lets You Take Cars Apart

Dominic Brennan gets his hands on ESI Group's latest iteration of IC.IDO, their automotive visualisation tool that uses CAD-accurate data to generate extremely realistic VR simulations which let you take apart (or fix) your own virtual car. The GPU Technology...

SEA VR Rebrands as ‘Immerse Technology Summit’, Returns October 11th

SEA VR, the largest VR conference in the Pacific Northwest, has renamed itself as the “Immerse Technology Summit,” and will be held this year on October 11th in Bellevue, Washington. The summit organizers say they dropped the “VR” moniker...

This is The Rogue Initiative’s Debut VR Fantasy ‘Crowe: The Drowned Armory’

Fledgling production studio The Rogue Initiative have revealed their first VR game project as Crowe: The Drowned Armory, an original sci-fi fantasy adventure which, from the newly release key art, looks promising. The Rogue Initiative describe themselves as a "full spectrum...
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