Figment VR, a virtual reality smartphone adapter created by Quantum Bakery LLC, has passed its $75,000 Kickstarter funding goal in just 7 days. With more and more virtual reality-based content coming into the mainstream like Facebook's support for 360 video in its...

Google released the second version of their Cardboard VR viewer back in May. Sticking to their commitment to make the design of the handheld HMD completely open for third-party manufacturers, the company has now released the complete design specification...

The official Team Coco app, which has previously offered up 360-degree Conan clips and behind-the-scenes footage from late night host Conan O'Brien, has added VR support for their 360 videos for Google Cardboard and other smartphone VR viewers. Compatible iOS or Android smartphones can...

The latest public data point on the number of Google Cardboard viewers shipped shows tremendous growth for this inexpensive entry point into virtual reality. A week after Google launched Cardboard as an experiment at I/O 2014, the company told us they'd...

At Google's I/O 2015 developer conference today, Clay Bavor took to the stage to update the world on the company's VR developments and has revealed a new and improved Cardboard VR viewer for smartphones. Google announced the Cardboard viewer and...

While the initial uptick of Google's 'Cardboard' VR initiative may have exceeded their expectations, the company is now taking a very active approach to guiding the project into the future. The next step for Cardboard, which we expect to hear...

A high school student from Perth, Australia, has launched a Kickstarter campaign focused on a novel plastic VR smartphone adapter, that unlike many designs on the market actually snaps apart to retain its flat pack portability. https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1591136/video-523918-h264_high.mp4 Since its initial release back in summer of 2014, Google...

After hearing positive reports of Wearality's 150 degree VR lenses, I was excited to try them for myself. Having done so, I came away with a sense that, barring entirely new ways of bending light, there is no such...

Wearality Sky has surpassed half of its crowdfunding goal of $100,000 for their VR smartphone adapter, a device that offers a 150 degree field of view (FOV) for 5–6 inch phones. With former Google Chief Technology Advocate Michael Jones signing...

Today Google is taking the wraps off of a new certification program for VR smartphone adapters. 'Works with Google Cardboard' will allow Cardboard VR apps to adjust specifically for a given VR smartphone adapter and help users see which adapters...

Freefly VR launches today, a VR smartphone adapter with a unique universal design for phones from 4.7 to 6.1-inches. Road to VR readers can take an exclusive 18% discount off a purchase of the headset. The Freefly VR smartphone adapter uses an iOS...

Google surprised the VR community when it revealed Cardboard, a super low-cost VR smartphone adapter, last year at the company's annual developer conference. Although started as a hobby-level project, the platform seems to have grown beyond their expectations. The Cardboard app...

It was announced yesterday at the New York Toy Fair that Mattel's View-Master is ditching the film 'reels' and partnering with Google "to deliver an affordable, kid-friendly immersive digital experience"  using a chunky plastic version of Google's Cardboard smartphone...

FPse, a popular Android PlayStation emulator, has just updated to include support for side-by-side viewing, which means you can now play your favorite PS1 games on any Cardboard variant headset. See Also: NewRetroArcade Version 2 is Out, Now With Support for...

Move over Google Cardboard and Durovis Dive, because Pinć wants a seat at the mobile VR table, and with their new iPhone 6 case—which hides a small form factor VR headset—they'll be needing a little elbow room. Cordon Media, a Toronto-based...