PC VR News & Reviews
The latest PC VR news. In this section you'll find SteamVR reviews, games, and news on Valve's latest moves in XR and spatial computing.
Reverend Kyle Gets a DK2, Shares Tips on Getting Games to Work (Video)
It's been a hectic couple of weeks here at Road to VR. The DK2 finally shipped and as each member of the Road to VR Collective has received their long awaited Oculus Rift DK2 VR Headsets, we've tried to...
We Play Elite: Dangerous in the DK2 – In-Depth Hands-On Video
A couple of days ago, I asked you - our dear readers - what you'd most us to try once we received our Oculus Rift DK2s (mine arrived yesterday). Elite:Dangerous has been consistently among the highest requested games you guys...
News Bits: New Radial-G Demo With DK2 and Mac Support Due For ‘Soft’ Release Next Week
Both Ben Lang and I have confessed our love for the classic anti-gravity futuristic racing franchise 'Wipeout', and recently Ben waxed enthusiastic about a new Oculus Rift title from UK based developers Tammeka Games. The company launched a £50k Kickstarter...
Surgeon Uses Oculus Rift On Patients, Streams Operation Using Google Glass
One of the joys of writing about reporting from the cutting-edge of a newly reborn technology like virtual reality is that you're constantly being surprised as what people are finding to do with it. Almost weekly there's some innovation...
Valve’s SteamVR, Now with Support for Mac and Linux, Is the Best VR Web Browser Yet...
While there are a number of people and projects currently working on what the future of VR on the web might look like, the question remains: how do we use the internet—as we know it today—in VR? One of...
Aerometrex Combines Impressive 3D Mapping with VR for Intense Flyovers
Flying in virtual reality, a commonly held wish by enthusiasts since the dawn of the technology. The prospect of swooping over virtual landscapes, your mind convinced your body has taken flight is an extremely enticing one. Now that virtual...
News Bits: New Atajrubah Dev Update Includes UE3 vs. UE4 Video
We wrote about Atajrubah recently and noted that the development team had moved to Unreal Engine 4 after spending much of the game's life up to that point as a UE3 project. The Oculus Rift enabled open world survival...
New Free Unreal Engine 4 Bootcamp E-Book Offers Superb Intro for Wannabe VR Devs
Unreal Engine 4 launched to developers around the world back in March and immediately impressed. Epic's successor to its near ubiquitous UE3, which dominated much of the last generation of game development, was designed from the ground up to...
News Bits: Get DOSBox in Virtual Reality with DOSCulus
So to continue the retro / nostalgia theme that started with the release of MemoRift, we bring you news of somewhat more hardcore retro and emulation option for those wanting to try and bring their enjoyment of retro PC...
Radial-G Gives F-Zero and Wipeout Fans the VR Ride They’ve Been Waiting For, Kickstarter Now Live
If I were to say I liked the original Playstation game Wipeout, it would be disingenuous. I adored it! Back when 'next gen' consoles really delivered genuinely groundbreaking home gaming experiences, Wipeout lead the charge of 3D gaming...
News Bits: Take a Virtual Tour of the Millennium Falcon with the Oculus Rift
I've written before how virtual reality might well enable new and more powerful ways to re-live moments from the past or just gently wallow in immersive nostalgia. The recent launch of nostalgia simulator MemoRift and the Transformers tech demo...
VIVE – the Very Immersive Virtual Experience that Fuses Motion Capture with the Oculus Rift
Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...
News Bits: New Oculus Rift Mod Aims to Give You an Out of Body Experience
A new project by Polish open source software tutorial website mepi.pl aims to give you the opportunity to follow your own movements as if you were a 3rd person spectator on your own life.
The project rigs a dual, customised webcams...
News Bits: MemoRift the VR Emulator Interface – Demo Now Available For Download
We reported on MemoRift a little while back and admired it's approach to providing users looking for a virtual reality room in which to experience your nostalgic applications within.
We bring good news. MemoRift R1 is now available from their...
News Bits: Cyber Space VR Theme Park Ride Simulator Now Lets You Eject, World Scale Fixed
We reported on RiftAway's venture into white knuckle fantasy ride simulator Cyber Space a little while ago and mused on it's potential status as the ultimate in testing your VR Legs.
Now, RiftAway has released a new version of the...













