Idea Engine allows you to create and share VR and mixed reality experiences. Building such a general-purpose tool requires complex user interfaces. In this Guest Article, developer Brett Jackson shares his approaches to UI interaction. Guest Article by Brett Jackson Brett...

Qualcomm today announced its latest Snapdragon XR chip, the XR2+ Gen 2, a more capable variant of the chip that powers Quest 3. The company also hints that it will be used in the upcoming Samsung-Google headset. Qualcomm is at...

Somehow another year has come and gone. 2024 will mark the 13th year that we've been following this XR journey here at Road to VR. With an eye on that long-term perspective, it's once again time to reflect on...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to remove support for its entire WMR platform on Windows, which could make Windows VR headsets inoperable. A Good Start Microsoft was surprisingly quick to jump into the VR sphere back in 2017 when...

"Virtual reality is dead." That's what we've been told about every six months for the better part of a decade now. Anyone who's been following the space though knows that more people than ever are playing VR games and opening...

A video posted by a Vision Pro developer appears to show the current levels of hand-tracking and occlusion performance that Apple's new headset is capable of. Apple Vision Pro, expected to launch in the next few months, will use hand-tracking...

If you're just getting into VR, chances are you haven't played Asgard's Wrath, the Meta-funded RPG from Sanzaru Games that came exclusive to Oculus Rift in 2019. At the time, the 30+ hour adventure was one of the first...

The official VR mode for the Resident Evil 4 (2023) remake is now available on PSVR 2 as a free download to the base game. For those that don't already own the game, Capcom has also released a free...

Valve hasn't wasted any time in pushing out patches to its recently updated Steam Link function, which lets Quest users wirelessly connect to their PCs to play SteamVR games. Users with particularly great PC setups should expect a "significant...

Xbox Cloud Gaming finally came to Quest earlier this week, letting Game Pass Ultimate members play the service's full catalogue of flatscreen games on Quest for the first time. But did you know you don't actually need any sort...

Meta paused shipments of its Elite Strap with Battery for Quest 3 late last month due to a widespread charging fault that would render the battery useless for some users. Meta is now unpausing orders of the device, as...

Meta announced a new mixed reality platformer for Quest called Demeter that uses your furniture and walls so you can solve puzzles and challenges, tasking you to guide a pint-size hero get back to her world. Developed by Novelab and...

Meta and Microsoft today made good on their word to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming and the Game Pass library to Quest. With a subscription to Game Pass Ultimate and a supported gamepad, Quest can now be used to play...

According to a report from The Information, ByteDance subsidiary Pico Interactive is pulling the release of its next consumer-focused standalone headset in effort to no longer compete directly with Meta Quest, instead positioning its next device to compete with...

Ray-Ban and Meta's second-generation smartglasses are slated to get a lot smarter starting this week, as the company launched an opt-in beta in the US that will hook in the device's camera into AI-powered object recognition, powered in part...