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‘iRacing’ to Expand VR Support to HTC Vive in September Update

With a couple of weeks remaining in the current season, sim racing enthusiasts are beginning to anticipate iRacing’s next quarterly update, and Road to VR has received confirmation that it will include expanded VR support. Having rolled out its...

Hands-on: Star Wars ‘Trials on Tatooine’ Let Me Wield the Iconic Lightsaber

Lucasfilm has revealed a new HTC Vive experiment called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, which finally lets us wield the Jedi's iconic lightsaber. Oh, and the Millennium Falcon makes a visit. Over the years we've seen a number of fan-made virtual...
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Latest VorpX Adds Oculus Rift CV1 Support, HTC Vive Support “Planned”

The latest release of VorpX, the VR injection driver that lets you play your favourite non VR games in VR, is here and it brings support for the consumer edition (CV1) Oculus Rift. It's hard to believe VorpX, the injection...

Vive Eye-tracking & Corrective Lens Add-on Confirmed Compatible with Vive Pro

7invensun, one of the latest companies accepted into HTC's Vive X accelerator program, is launching an eye-tracking add-on made specially for the Vive headset. The device, which went on sale last year, uses a series of IR LEDs and...

HTC: Consumer Vive Is “Gonna Look a Lot Different” – Modular Headphones, New Mounting System, and...

While the HTC Vive's room-scale VR experience is one of the best available today, the device itself still needs to undergo a significant metamorphosis from development kit to consumer-ready product. Details about exactly what changes we'll see in the...

‘Raw Data’ Early Access Review, Now with Oculus Touch Support

Raw Data, a first-person combat game from Survios currently in Early Access, is one of the most fast-paced and exciting games out for HTC Vive and Oculus Touch right now. Far from being a simple shooting gallery, Raw Data gives you an...

Valve Now Prompting Rift Owners to Install SteamVR

Although Valve has buddied up with HTC to create the Vive as SteamVR's flagship headset, the company has made it clear that they want SteamVR to be headset agnostic. Now Steam is identifying Rift users and prompting them to install...

Valve Announces New ‘Portal’ VR Content, Coming to SteamVR for Free This Spring

Valve today announced a "compilation of new VR experiments" which will be set in Portal's Aperture Science universe. The company will show the new experiences at next week's GDC 2016. Valve is calling the new series of VR experiments The Lab, and...

‘The Assembly’ Review

The Assembly is a first-person adventure game that wants to put your moral fiber to the test. Much like a novel, the game alternates back and forth between two characters: a brilliant neurologist entering the shadowy research institute eponymously dubbed 'The Assembly', and...
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Download Crytek’s ‘Back to Dinosaur Island 2’ VR Demo for Oculus Rift Now

Crytek has released their impressive VR tech demo Back to Dinosaur Island 2, the precursor to their forthcoming Oculus Rift exclusive The Climb and PlayStation VR exclusive Robinson: The Journey, to download for free right now. One of Road to VR's favourite...

The HTC Vive Costs $799 and Ships April 1st

HTC have finally officially announced the price of the 'Consumer Edition' of their Valve SteamVR powered virtual reality solution. The HTC Vive will cost a cool $799. Those eagerly awaiting news on how much they can expect to have to lay...

Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality

With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today's VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for...

Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion

We went hands on with the new, real-time, VR experience inspired by the Ridley Scott movie 'The Martian' and found its mix of high production values, motion controllers combined with motion chairs seriously compelling. Ridley Scott's The Martian is a...

Play Fallout 4 in VR, with the Latest VorpX Update

VorpX, the drivers that lets you play your favourite games in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift, has just received an update that brings with it official preliminary support for the newly released Fallout 4. Hot on the heels of...

Vive President Says Next-gen VR Headsets Likely to Come in 1 to 3 Year Cycles

Over the course of the last 50 years, capital markets have significantly codified a generational model approach consumer technology products. New "generations" of products are expected to come at a regular pace and provide increased features and reliability at the...
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