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‘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...
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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...
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Preview: ‘Intone’ is an Audio-Visual Experiment That Could Worry Your Neighbors

Intone is an interactive audio-visual experience built by indie dev Dan Scott (aka 'wheatgrinder'), and while the experiment may seem fairly simple in concept—control the blocks with the sound of your voice—the effects are everything but. Beware: everyone in your vicinity will think you've gone...
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This Assetto Corsa Mixed Reality Video Shows VR Racing’s Potential

This enthusiast video which uses green screen video capture to fuse virtual reality footage, demonstrates how impressively accurate VR racing games are becoming. The trend set by the excellent mixed reality videos from Northway Games, showcasing their excellent room-scale title Fantastic...

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...
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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...
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Latest VorpX Adds Oculus Rift CV1 Support, HTC Vive Support “Planned”

The latest release of VorpX, the VR injection driver that lets you play your favourite non VR games in VR, is here and it brings support for the consumer edition (CV1) Oculus Rift. It's hard to believe VorpX, the injection...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – April #2

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. https://youtu.be/sAiZfBJvY5g Explore an abandoned dragon planet by moving around platforms and going through...

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...

Combining Interactive Exploration & Sports with ‘#SelfieTennis’

VR Unicorns is a Copenhagen-based development collective that developed #SelfieTennis. They were working on Julie Heyde's RagnarökVR until they stated experimenting with room-scale sports experiences. Playing tennis against yourself in VR was the first mechanic that found was really compelling...

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...

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...
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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...
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