HTC Vive
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...
Following Rift Delay, HTC Vive Backorder Pushes Into June
The HTC Vive opened for pre-orders back at the end of February and officially launched just last week on April 5th. The headset's backorder date is now into June for new orders.
After the initial wave of pre-orders for the...
Valve Engineers Talk Lighthouse Evolution & Favourite VR Memories
At GDC this year, I had a chance to talk with Valve developer Jeremy Selan and tracking engineer Ben Jackson about the evolution of room-scale tracking technologies, as well as some of the oral history stories that include some...
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...
VR Lens Lab Brings Prescription Lenses to Rift and Vive, Kickstarter Now Live
The makers of VR Cover and Gauss Eyewear today announced their newest crowdfunding project which aims to deliver specially-made prescription lens holders for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Much like their previous Gear VR lens campaign, VR Lens Lab has...
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 Proclaims “VR IS HERE” to Millions of Steam Users, New Vive Promo Focuses on Group-Play
Valve is pushing the HTC Vive in full force today—no surprise considering it's the official launch day of the SteamVR-compatible headset. Adding to proclamation that "VR is here," which is smack dab on Steam's front page that nearly tens of...
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...
EVE: Valkyrie is Coming to HTC Vive this Year, CCP Confirms
It seems that the game people most associate with and indeed shipped alongside the Oculus Rift, is coming to the HTC Vive this year.
EVE:Valkyrie has evolved alongside the Oculus Rift since the early days and the association with the...
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...
4 Videos That Take You Inside Valve’s ‘The Lab’
The HTC Vive is here, and we're finally allowed to show you The Lab, Valve's Portal-themed playground of VR demos that gives you a beautifully cohesive tour of what's possible with room-scale VR. To get a better look at just what it had...
New ‘Fantastic Contraption’ Mixed-Reality Trailer Teases Twitch Chat Integration
Fantastic Contraption, a building game from Northway Games, is launching tomorrow alongside the HTC Vive, and you'd be forgiven if you're caught drooling over the newest peek into the studio's mixed reality gameplay teaser. We know we are.
Twitch streamers may have noticed...
HTC Vive Orders Being Cancelled Due to Payment Processing Issues – UPDATED
It seems HTC are experiencing technical issues with their payment processing systems and customers' banks which are leading to some pre-orders for their forthcoming HTC Vive VR system being cancelled.
So it seems it's not just Oculus who are experiencing...
HTC Vive Consumer Edition Has Landed, We Unbox Room-scale VR
The HTC Vive is due to land on people's doorsteps from April 5th, and our in depth review is on its way then too. In the mean time, here's a sneak peek at what you can expect to get in...
HTC Launches Vive App on iOS to Keep You Connected While in VR
It's been known since early 2016 that HTC planned to integrate bluetooth into the Vive headset to allow your phone to talk to the headset while you're in VR, but we didn't know what platforms or specific functionality would...




















