The Augmented World Expo, one of the longest running immersive technology events, is back for a 7th year and it's bigger than ever. With focus on augmented reality, virtual reality and wearable technologies, the expo is packing in 4000...

At VRDC 2016, the VR conference counterpart to GDC, representatives from Oculus Story Studio and HBO will explore their approaches to immersive storytelling. VRDC runs from March 14–15 brings, and brings a VR specific focus alongside the broader GDC 2016...

The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google's Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. But who else made the...

A new annual conference from Greenlight Insights is angling itself to sate the growing desire for "actionable insights" from the rapidly expanding VR industry. The 2016 Virtual Reality Strategy Conference aims to layout the "new rules" of the VR...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1251129310/vr-camp-at-burning-man?ref=nav_search Burning Man, a week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert that showcases the weird and wonderful, will be getting a VR Camp—an enclave of VR enthusiasts that should find themselves at home among the unbound imagination and psychedelia that often shows up...

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...

Unity have been present during and indeed a key component of VR's current renaissance. The earliest major 3D game engine to support the Oculus Rift DK1, Unity 3D rendered VR games still number in the majority. Now, Unity Technologies have...

At Sundance earlier this year, Oculus Story Studio revealed Quill, an in-house production tool that uses the company's Touch controllers to create VR illustrations. At GTC 2016 next week the studio will explore the technical challenges faced while creating the program. Quill...

Under the umbrella of GDC 2016 in March, GDC event organizer UBM hosted its first dedicated VR event, the Virtual Reality Developers Conference. After the successful pilot run, the organizers have decided to spin the event out into a standalone...

PlayStation Experience is coming back to the Moscone Center in San Francisco this year, and the company's PSVR headset is stepping out into the spotlight with at least 16 confirmed PSVR titles up for demos. Can't make it to SF for the...

AR/VR Austin returns for its third successive year, presenting a mini-conference named ‘Alternative Realities’. Taking place as an unofficial event during the SXSW 2017 festival on March 11th, this year’s event will question the impact of social and political...

VLRA, the premier VR community in Los Angeles, is hosting their Summer Expo 2015 next weekend where attendees will have a chance to check out the latest VR products from more than 60 companies. Road to VR readers can...

John Gaeta, often associated with his groundbreaking special effects within The Matrix trilogy, is currently working with xLab, Industrial Light & Magic's arm dedicated to interactive media experimentation. He'll be joining the live VR show Gunter's Universe as a guest...

SEA VR, the largest VR conference in the Pacific Northwest, has renamed itself as the “Immerse Technology Summit,” and will be held this year on October 11th in Bellevue, Washington. The summit organizers say they dropped the “VR” moniker...

Michael Glombicki shares his thoughts on the recent SEA-VR virtual reality community event, held in Seattle last month, and ponders the future of the community scene as VR becomes a mainstream technology. Michael Glombicki is Seattle based software engineer who...