RiftMax has been on the cutting edge of virtual reality telepresence and broadcasting for some time now so it made sense that the developers behind the project would attempt a crowd-funding campaign. Unfortunately, that Kickstarter has now been cancelled. If...

With no information some 10 months after the announcement of its latest VR headset, the ConceptD OJO, we started to wonder what had come of the device. After reaching out to the company, Acer has confirmed to Road to VR that...

At the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx last year, Valve promised it would release Source 2 tools which would allow the community to extend the game's content and functionality. Now, two weeks after the launch of the game, Valve says it's presently...

In honor of Oculus Quest's first anniversary today, Facebook announced that the popular standalone VR headset is getting a new 'Playspace Scan' feature to make its Guardian system capable of detecting objects that could trip you up during gameplay. Guardian,...

During the opening presentation at today's Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google's...

This evening AltspaceVR has announced it will be closing its doors for good on August 3rd. Founded in 2013, the social VR platform was one of the first to come online and connected tens of thousands of users monthly...

This week Valve announced that the Index headset and other hardware can now be bought and shipped to Canada and Japan, in addition to 28 other regions. Update (November 22st, 2019): Valve announced this week that the Index headset and...

Wolfenstein 3D (1992), the first-person shooter developed by id Software, kickstarted an entire genre, and now you can play the generational icon in VR. The project, dubbed Wolfenstein 3D VR, features all ten original levels. While the game's patented 2D sprites...

Don't look down, because Crytek's aptly-named climbing game The Climb (2017) is headed out of Rift exclusivity soon with its impending launch on Oculus Quest. Update (December 4th, 2019):  The Climb is now available Oculus Quest, which includes cross-buy support, meaning if you...

No Man's Sky, the galactic sandbox game which launched back in 2016 is getting a major update today which includes full VR support. The 'BEYOND' update is now available on PS4 with PSVR support and on Steam with support...

Lighthouse is Valve's laser-based tracking system that forms the bedrock of Steam VR's input system. Alan Yates, Hardware Engineer at Valve was a key player in the system's design and implementation. Alan, frustrated with being asked the same questions...

China-based VR headset creator Pimax has introduced a new payment model following the recent announcement of its Crystal Light PC VR headset, which will let try it out before plonking down the full price of the headset. The company calls...

At GDC last week Oculus announced they were bringing a VR rendering function called Asynchronous Timewarp to Windows with version 1.3 of the Oculus PC SDK. The feature (abbreviated 'ATW') smoothes over otherwise uncomfortable stuttering which can happen when...

The Immersed IRL event, held yesterday in Austin, Texas was the company's big moment to showcase its upcoming headset and build confidence that it was on track to deliver on the promise of an ambitious headset. But a botched...

The PC VR population has been growing ever so steadily over the last four years. Meanwhile, the MacOS population has shrunk and been overtaken by VR. If you were just looking at the percent of the Steam population with monthly-connected...