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‘Virtual Desktop’ is Finally Coming to Oculus Go & Gear VR This Week, Oculus Quest Next...

Virtual Desktop (2016), the app that lets you view and use your desktop computer in VR, is finally making its way to Oculus Go and Gear VR this week. Once Oculus Quest, the company's upcoming 6DOF headset, launches next...
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One of VR’s Best ‘First Time’ Experiences Comes to CV1 and HTC Vive

Consistently a firm favourite here at Road to VR, Sightline: The Chair is an award winning 'greatest hits' of VR vignettes that happen to be one of the best introductions to virtual reality. The developer just released the latest...

LG Shakes Up XR Division, Reportedly Putting Meta Headset Partnership on Ice

Korean media last month alleged that the Meta/LG partnership to create a high-end XR headset wasn't going so well, suggesting either outright cancellation or a delay pushing release of a prospective Apple Vision Pro competitor to 2027. While this hasn't...
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‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ Gets New Story Trailer Ahead of December Release on PSVR 2 & PC...

Ahead of Alien: Rogue Incursion's December launch on PSVR 2 and PC VR, developer Survios released a new story trailer that delves deeper into the protagonist Zula Hendricks' story on LV-354, aka 'Purdan'. What happened to Zula’s friend and former squad mate on Purdan?...

4 Thoughts on Carmack’s ‘VrScript’ from Tony Parisi, Creator of VRML

Oculus CTO John Carmack has been working on a VR scripting environment called—simply enough—VrScript. After getting a glimpse of the environment at Oculus Connect, Tony Parisi had some thoughts to share. Guest article by Sophia Dominguez Sophia is the founder of AllThingsVR, a curated newsletter...

‘Tetris Effect’ Now Available on PC with VR Support, Exclusively from Epic Store

Tetris Effect (2018), the latest entry in the iconic tile-stacker series, is officially available starting today on PC, which also includes support for VR headsets. Update (July 23rd, 2019): The PC version is finally here, letting Oculus Rift & HTC Vive...

Report: Apple Acquires Motion Capture Firm IKinema

According to a MacRumor report and regulatory filings with the UK government, Apple may have quietly acquired UK-based motion capture firm IKinema. The report has thus far gone unsubstantiated by both companies, however a number of filings with the UK government...
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Watch: ‘Ancient Amuletor’ Brings Multiplayer VR Tower Defence to PSVR, Launches 27th June

Tower defence title Ancient Amuletor from TiGames is launching for PlayStation VR tomorrow sporting multiplayer co-op and an adorable art style. Here's a look at the launch trailer. If you've been yearning for a dose of tower defence with friends...

First Ever Steam Awards Finalists Include Two VR-enabled Games

Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. The winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve after a period of public voting. Introduced during the...
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‘Battlefield’-like VR Shooter ‘Forefront’ Launches Open Alpha for 16 vs. 16 Multiplayer Action

Forefront is an upcoming Battlefield-inspired VR shooter which promises huge 16 vs. 16 firefights in large spaces with vehicles on Quest and Steam. The studio just surprise-dropped an open alpha of the game to gather player feedback and stress-test...
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‘Bulletstorm VR’ Gets Brief Delay, Pushing Launch to Early 2024

Bulletstorm, the co-op shooter first launched on flatscreen in 2011, was slated to come to VR for the first time in December. Now the studios say it's launching a few weeks later than originally planned, pushing release into January. Update...

YouTube is Finally Set to Get Social Viewing on Quest

Nearly two years ago, Meta announced that Quest's social space, Horizon Home, would allow users to watch YouTube videos together—something we've been wishing was easy to do in VR for a long time. Excitement waned, however, when the feature...

Investors Poured a Record $2 Billion into VR/AR in 2017, But Early Stage Funding Slowed

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight...

Valve’s Lighthouse Room-Scale Tracking Illustrated IRL

SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve's 15x15 feet 'room scale' tracking looks like when applied in reality. Valve and HTC's Vive virtual...

New Meta R&D Reveals Shortcut to Ultra-wide Retina Resolution Holographic Displays in XR

Researchers from Meta Reality Labs, Princeton University, and others have published a new paper detailing a method for achieving ultra-wide field-of-view holographic displays with retina resolution. The method drastically reduces the display resolution that would otherwise be necessary to...
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