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Community Fallout from UploadVR’s Harassment Settlement, and Bearing Witness to Testimony
The sexual harassment lawsuit against UploadVR was reported to be settled via Tech Crunch on September 6th, and a week later the New York Times followed with more details about how Upload had been barely dented. The case was...
‘Dark Souls’-inspired VR Adventure ‘Left-Hand Path’ Exits Steam Early Access on November 10th
Left-Hand Path is a Dark Souls-inspired single-player VR adventure developed by Strange Company. The studio recently announced that the spell-casting RPG, which promises 15+ hours of content, is heading out of Early Access November 10th.
Launching out of a year-long stint on Steam...
‘The Gallery – Ep. 2 : Heart of the Emberstone’ Review – Longer, Stronger and Well...
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (2017) comes a year and a half after Call of the Starseed (2016), episode one in the narrative-based adventure puzzle game series. As a successor to one of the first room-scale games in existence, the...
Valve Says New Calibration Software Makes Lower-Cost LCD Panels Viable for High-End VR
New SteamVR optical technologies now available to VR hardware manufacturers includes the use of both LCD and OLED custom panels. According to the press release provided to Road to VR, Valve’s work with display manufacturers and recent advancements in...
‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’ is Out Now on Vive & Rift, Catch the Launch...
The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone is the anticipated followup to one of VR's first room-scale experiences, Episode 1: Call of the Starseed, and promises to be considerably larger than its predecessor. Heart of the Emberstone today launched...
Magic Leap Raises Another $502 Million, Now Totalling Nearly $2 Billion in Funding
Rumors from back in September of Magic Leap raising a Series D investment were confirmed today as the company revealed an additional $502 million in venture funding, led by a Singaporean investment firm Temasek, with participation from strategic and financial investors.
The...
First Windows VR Headsets Launch Today Alongside Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Microsoft's Windows 10 'Fall Creators Update' is available for download today, making the operating system compatible with its line of Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets, which coincidentally are arriving on doorsteps and store shelves starting today too.
Windows 10 Fall...
PlayStation VR to Get 60+ More Games Through Early 2018, Nearly Doubling Game Catalog
It's been a whole year since the PlayStation VR launched, and Sony is nearly doubling down on its extensive catalog of games with +60 more titles confirmed to come to PSVR between now and early 2018.
While the platform already claims to...
Hands-on: ‘Windlands 2’ Gets a Change in Tone with the Addition of Co-op Combat
Windlands (2016), the high-flying exploration game from Psytec Games, is getting a sequel next year that's looking to alter its predecessor's formula with the addition of co-op adventuring as well as combat. We got a hands-on with the newly revealed game...
Apple CEO on AR Headsets: ‘We don’t want to be first, we want to be the...
Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks augmented reality is going to be something big, a fairly simple claim to make thanks to the company's recent inclusion of its AR tech into every Apple device capable of updating to iOS 11. But...
Oculus Connect 4 Day 1 Roundup: Oculus Go, Rift Price Drop, New ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype, and...
The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for...
Ubisoft’s Multiplayer Arcade Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Is Heading into Closed Beta in Early 2018
Ubisoft today announced that Space Junkies, the multiplayer arcade VR shooter, is going into closed beta in early 2018. We got a chance to go hands-on with a more developed prototype of the game at this year's Oculus Connect, and while...
‘Cloudborn’ Hands-on – Reaching for Intuitive & Comfortable Locomotion
Cloudborn is an indie first-person VR exploration game, currently available on Steam Early Access, where the player is tasked with ‘cleansing the corruption’ by traversing the world to reach 'cores' using an intuitive climbing mechanic. Unfortunately, the “melancholic journey of...
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games
ARKTIKA.1, now in development for more than two years, is shaping up to be a gritty VR shooter with a AAA look and feel. Ahead of the game's launch on the Oculus Rift we spoke with the game's executive...
The 5 Best VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
As one of the first game genres to embrace VR, sim racing has successfully transitioned from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage (the first-generation consumer headsets). Now that the majority of...




















