HTC Vive Compatible Games
Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat
Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation.
I was able...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ to Receive Carrier Assault Mode with Star Wars-style Trench-run
A new objective-based game mode was today announced for EVE: Valkyrie at Fanfest 2016, CCP's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Called 'Carrier Assault', it promises to offers what lead designer Andrew Willans calls an "influence from a certain '70s sci-fi classic moment."...
‘VR Duck Hunt’ Team Wants to Build Your Favorite Arcade Classic, Vote Now
Want to see your favorite classic arcade game realized in virtual reality? The makers of a VR prototype of Duck Hunt for HTC Vive are taking suggestions from the community to do just that.
The campaign is called VRcade Challenge, and there are more...
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...
Storytelling in VR: Ambiguity and Implication in 1st Person Narratives
Rob Morgan is the writer of The Assembly, and he spoke last year at GDC about narrative design in VR and the importance of accurate body language in NPCs to maintain a sense of presence. He returned to GDC...
NASA-backed ‘Mars 2030’ is a Breathtakingly Real Slice of Martian Landscape the Size of ‘Skyrim’
Backed with support from NASA, the development of Mars 2030 is underscored by a singular mission: do everything possible to make the player feel like they're actually on Mars. And that, apparently, means starting with a massive, detailed recreation of...
Katie Goode on VR Accessibility & Designing for Users with Disabilities
Katie Goode is the Creative Director of Triangular Pixels, which has developed Smash Hit Plunder for the Gear VR and Unseen Diplomacy for the Vive. Unseen Diplomacy is a room-scale experience that has people crawling through tunnels as a...
Surreal Experimental Art & ‘BLARP!’s Unique Physics-Based Game Mechanic
VR has the capability to take us into completely new realms, and experimental artist Isaac "Cabbibo" Cohen has been creating some of the most surreal and transportive experiences that I've seen. I had a chance to try out a...
Valve’s Chet Faliszek on HTC Vive Launch Title Highlights
Valve's Chet Faliszek has been a key virtual reality evangelist & developer relations liaison over the past couple of years for the HTC Vive, and I had a chance to sit down with him at GDC as they were...
HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space
We go hands on with Valve and HTC’s new room-scale virtual reality system the Vive and discover that with incredible VR experiences come great real estate requirements.
We’ve been reporting on virtual reality since 2011 here at Road to VR, and it’s...
Step into Distant Lands With ‘Realities’, Launching Free on HTC Vive April 5th
Realities is a collection of incredibly detailed virtual environments created with a technique called photogrammetry. It's about the closest thing we've seen yet to teleportation, and you'll be able to check it out for yourself come April 5th, when...
‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’ Launches April 5th, New Trailer Revealed
After 3 years in development, Cloudhead Games are finally set to bring the first instalment of their made-for-VR series The Gallery to the HTC Vive, with release set for April 5th. To celebrate, they've released a trailer which reveals...
Valve’s Jeep Barnett on Designing ‘The Lab’ for HTC Vive
Jeep Barnett is a programmer at Valve Corporation who has been on the VR team for the last couple year. He was at GDC showing off The Lab, which is a series of mini-games demonstrating different design principles within...
Optimizing Gameplay and Fun with Fantastic Contraption
Fantastic Contraption is an amazingly fun and super compelling world building tool where you build contraptions that get from point A to B, and it was recently announced as one of the games that's going to be bundled with...
Preview: ‘John Wick: The Impossible Task’ Puts You in the Shoes of an Elite Assassin
John Wick - The Impossible Task is an upcoming shooter from Starbreeze Studios working in collaboration with WEVR, Grab Games and Lionsgate that throws you into the John Wick universe for dual pistol-wielding action. We went hands on with the demo shown at this year's GDC...



















