HTC Vive

HTC Vive

Early SteamVR Performance Test Included Hidden Half-Life & Left 4 Dead Demo Code

Valve have just released a new tool to determine if your gaming PC is up to the task of running SteamVR experiences unlocked with the HTC Vive. But, buried in the code of the tool lies some interesting glimpses...
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New HTC Vive ‘Consumer Edition’ Trailer Lands

In the wake of HTC's announcement that the HTC Vive will ship on April 1st and cost $799, here's 51 seconds of industrial design to give you a really good look at the headset you as a potential buyer...

The HTC Vive Will Let You Call and Text in Virtual Reality

HTC Today unveiled the price and launch date of its SteamVR powered VR headset the Vive. They also revealed a new feature to launch with the Vive 'Consumer Edition', HTC Phone Services, a service which lets you make calls whilst...

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...
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This Zelda-style HTC Vive Game Scales its World to Fit Your Room

Legend of Luca is a VR-exclusive title, designed from the ground up to utilise the HTC Vive's room-scale emphasised tracking capabilities. Heavily influenced by Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda, the title will work aims to scale your virtual experience...

VR’s Presence Strong at MWC 2016, Road to VR will be there

Road to VR will be landing in sunny Barcelona, Spain for its very first Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, bringing you all the latest news to come out of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry—and quickly...
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Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival Heading to 10 Cities Worldwide

Kaleidoscope, the virtual reality and immersive film festival, is on the road again in 2016 - this time hitting 10 cities in 9 countries around the world to show case 30 VR works which demonstrate the power of the...
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New ‘Modbox’ Video Has Portals that Will Mess with Your Mind

We got our hands on Alien Trap's HTC Vive multi-player sandbox physics title at Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit last week and loved its playful encouragement to create and destroy. Now, this latest video shows the developer's tests with mind-bending...

HTC Vive Pre Arrives With Developers, Twitter Rejoices

HTC's second iteration of their SteamVR hardware, the Vive Pre, was unveiled last month at CES with a number of ergonomic and technical enhancements. Well it looks like developers worldwide are taking to twitter to rejoice the receipt of...

SteamVR and HTC Vive Pre Gets ‘Direct Mode’

Valve has just announced that the latest release of SteamVR beta, its virtual reality platform SteamVR just upgraded its rendering pipeline to support Direct Mode, a way to bypass unnecessary operating system clutter to render directly to a VR...
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Developing Coop VR Games with Remote Presence Using the HTC Vive and Kinect

After featuring their new experiment which used the HTC Vive and Microsoft Kinect to the physical image of 2 players into virtual worlds remotely, we wanted to know more about how developers Jasper Brekelmans and Jeroen de Mooij had pulled it...
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VRLO 3.0 Event Wrap-Up Features Autodesk, Bossa Studios, HammerheadVR and More

VRLO is a London based VR event which celebrated its third outing in December, bigger and better than ever before. Road to VR's Jonathan Tustain was there to report from the show. Here's a nifty wrap-up tour featuring a collection...

The HTC Vive Pre is Now Shipping to Developers

The second generation SteamVR development kit, the HTC Vive Pre, was unveiled at CES in January and included numerous enhancements. Valve have now announced that the new Pre systems are on their way to developers. In the run up to...

7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick

You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put...

‘Virtually Dead’ Mixes Live Zombie Theatre with VR Driven by the HTC Vive

The latest out of home, live VR attraction to hit the UK, Virtually Dead mixes free-roaming virtual reality with live theatrical performances to bring Zombies to life in a secret East London location. The third UK based virtual reality attraction...
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