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Valve Index Review – The Enthusiast’s Choice

The Valve Index headset is more expensive and less user-friendly than its nearest competitor, the Oculus Rift S, but the experience it offers is the clear choice for VR enthusiasts who want to maximize immersion. Read on for our...

Oculus Quest Review – The First Great Standalone VR Headset

After months of teasing, Oculus Quest starts shipping today. After testing the headset for several weeks, our Oculus Quest review is here. Because it doesn't rely on a PC, but still has full tracking capabilities, Oculus hopes that Quest...

Oculus Rift S Review – A Good Choice for VR Newcomers, a Difficult Choice for VR...

After an impressive three-year tour of duty for Oculus' first PC VR headset, the Rift, along comes the Rift S. Oculus bills the headset not as a sequel, but a remaster. With a focus on ease of use, Rift...

HP Reverb Review – An Impressive Headset Stuck with Windows VR Controllers

Reverb is HP's second VR headset, and this time around the company is aiming mainly at the enterprise market, but not shying away from selling individual units at a consumer price point. As the highest resolution headset presently available...
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Magic Leap One Developer Review – An Ambitious Headset with Untapped Potential

There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. It’s trying to do a ton—eye-tracking, hand-tracking, 6DoF controllers, real-time meshing and a number of other features that haven’t been seen in a mobile MR device before....

Lenovo Mirage Solo Review: Positional Tracking Comes to Mobile VR (sort of)

Tis the season of standalones, it seems. Right on the heels of the Oculus Go launch, the Lenovo Mirage Solo is here. The headset promises to bring one of the top features of high-end VR headsets—positional tracking—to Google's casual...

Oculus Go Review: Standalone VR Priced for the Masses

Nearly seven months after its announcement back in October 2017, Oculus Go, the company's first standalone VR headset, is finally here. The company's thesis is that this affordably priced unit, which doesn't rely on a docked smartphone, will make...

HTC Vive Pro Headset Review: Welcomed Improvements Overshadowed By a Steep Price

Set to launch this week, on the two year anniversary of the original Vive, HTC's Vive Pro shows the progress the company has been able to make on their VR headset in the same span, though it isn't being...

Acer Windows VR Headset Review

Microsoft's 'Windows Mixed Reality' platform has finally landed and the first batch of supported VR headsets are hitting the streets. I toured around the new Windows Fall Creators Update—which builds AR and VR support deep into the OS—with the...

Oculus Touch Review: Reach into Rift

‘Step Into Rift’ had been Oculus’ mantra since the launch of the headset back at the end of March, but with the launch of Oculus' dedicated motion controllers, Touch, players can finally ‘Reach Into Rift’ too. Touch has been a...

Oculus Earphones Review and Comparison with Ultra High-end Earbuds

Announced at Oculus Connect 3 and launching alongside Touch, the Oculus Earphones were touted as a noise-isolating, more immersive alternative to the standard headphones. After days of using and testing the Earphones, I’ve been able to judge how good...

Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap

Today marks the launch of Google's high-end Android VR platform, Daydream, a major step beyond Cardboard and a serious competitor to Gear VR. Google has been playing in the VR space since 2014 back when they launched the Cardboard initiative,...

PlayStation VR Review: Console VR Has Arrived

PlayStation VR launches on October 13th, but today is review day and we've got a detailed PSVR review ready for you! For those who don't want to dig into the full review, here's our handy summary. For the rest of you,...

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...

Oculus Rift Review: Prologue to a New Reality

The Oculus Rift is finally here and with it, the virtual reality industry steps from three consecutive years of 'year zero' to 'year one' for VR. There's a lot riding on the Rift. Does it deliver? I envy the person reading...
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