VIRTSIM is the Virtual Reality Platform That Gamers Crave but Can’t Have

VIRTSIM is a highly immersive virtual reality system which can pit squads of players against each other in a realistic virtual reality combat environment. The system utilizes full-motion body capture, VR headsets, gun props, and even shock-feedback. Unfortunately, the...

Augmented Reality Magician Shows You the Future Today

Augmented reality (AR) seems an inevitable part of our future. The possibilities are easy to see but realizing the necessary technology is incredibly complex. Researchers, experimenters, and tech folk are slowly advancing what can be done with augmented reality....

Sony HMZ-T2 Head Mounted Display Now Available for a Whopping £999 in UK, Cheaper Elsewhere

Sony quietly announced the HMZ-T2 head mounted display / VR headset back at the end of August. The unit is now available in several regions (though notably still not in the US). In the UK you can buy the HMZ-T2 for a...

Former Apple Talent Developing Oculus Rift Headtracker, “9 DOF” and 760Hz Gyro Sampling

Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Oculus Rift, has confirmed that Oculus LLC is dropping the Hillcrest tracker that was originally being used as the Oculus Rift headtracker. Now it seems the Rift will use the Adjacent Reality tracker, developed...

Star Citizen and the Oculus Rift, Help Kickstart the Space Combat Genre

Star Citizen is an ambitious new game which will feature Oculus Rift support. But it's also much more than that -- this is an opportunity to help realize a new generation of space combat simulator, a genre which once...

Q&A With Palmer Luckey, Creator of the Oculus Rift

Palmer Luckey, who also goes by PalmerTech online, is the creator of the forthcoming Oculus Rift head mounted display and genuine VR nerd (I use that term endearingly). Luckey, who claims to have the largest private HMD collection in the world, remains...

This is What it Looks Like Through Vuzix’s New Augmented Reality Glasses

While Google's Project Glass may have nabbed much of the AR spotlight lately, Vuzix is hard at work on some very interesting augmented reality glasses which could hit the market long before Project Glass. Using side-mounted optical engines and...

Blackspace Oculus Rift Compatible Game Kickstarter Needs Your Help, 5 Days Left!

Blackspace is an excellent looking hybrid-RTS game which the developers say will support the Oculus Rift. Pixel Foundry, the indie studio behind the game, launched a Kickstarter campaign for Blackspace back in September. With 5 days left the campaign...

Oculus Rift News Bits: GTTV Hands-on With Rift, Cliff Bleszinski Leaves Epic Games, Palmer Heads to South Korea, and More

It's time for another Oculus Rift News Bits update! On the agenda: We've got a video from GameTrailers TV who got their hands on the Oculus Rift; iJustine provides some thoughts. Cliff Bleszinski has announced his departure from Epic...

RiftVR.com to Merge with Road to Virtual Reality

Today I'm pleased to announce that Paul James of RiftVR.com will be joining me here at Road to Virtual Reality. Paul and I have a similar passion for the world of virtual and augmented reality and have decided to...