Steam Dev Days Overview and More Valve Prototype HMD Impressions—Kevin Williams Reports
Guest contributor Kevin Williams brings us a report from inside Steam Dev Days, where Valve held a number of talks on their vision of the future of virtual reality, and demonstrated a prototype VR head mounted display which wowed...
Prescription Frames Finally Ready for Google Glass Along with New Sunglasses
Ever since Google Glass was announced back in early 2012, people have asked, 'what about those who wear glasses?' Google's answer to that question has been 'wear contacts for now, we'll have prescription glasses at some point.' Now the...
Avegant’s Ed Tang and Yobie Benjamin Talk About Their Journey to Kickstarting the Glyph at CES 2014 (Interview)
During a packed CES 2014 schedule, CEO of Avegant, Edward Tang and COO Yobie Benjamin take some time to talk to Paul James about Avegant's history and how the Glyph HMD came to be.
Calm Before the Kickstarter Storm
Ed Tang...
Interview: CCP Games Talks Eve Valkyrie on the Oculus Rift at CES 2014 [video]
At CES 2014 Road to VR catches up with CCP Games' Ian Shiels, user-experience designer on Eve Valkyrie, to get the latest on one of the first major Oculus Rift games in production.
After playing coy, CCP Games at CES...
Avegant Glyph Kickstarter Blasts Through $250,000 Goal in 7 Hours
As promised, the guys over at Avegant have launched the Kickstarter campaign for their DLP based portable media HMD the Avegant Glyph.
Rapid Rise
It's only been a few months since Ben Lang clapped his eyes on an early development prototype...
Oculus Releases Best Practices Guide for VR Developers, Reduces Minimum Recommended Age to 7 Years
Oculus VR Inc has released a draft Best Practices guide for VR developers that, in their words, seeks to maximize: 1) oculomotor comfort, 2) bodily comfort, and 3) a positive user experience. The document can be found on the Oculus...
CastAR Interview and Hands-On: Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson Speak to Road to VR
Road to VR's Paul James sits down to talk with the founders of Technical Illusions, Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson and we get our hands on the new HD Prototype.
Genuine
Jeri and Rick don't really want to be doing yet...
More Hints That Sony Is Working on a PS4 Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display
After Sony's somewhat embarassing reveal of the HMZ-T3Q HMD at CES 2014, new unconfirmed info from Steam Dev Days reveals that the company may actually be working on a true Oculus Rift competitor in the form of a PS4...
“Valve’s VR Demo Felt Like Being in a Lucid Dream State and Very Much Like a Holodeck”
Last week we saw the latest Oculus Rift prototype, dubbed 'Crystal Cove,' and this week we've been waiting patiently for info on Valve's prototype virtual reality head mounted display that the company showed yesterday and today at the Steam...
CES 2014: PrioVR Virtual Reality Motion Input Suit Interview and Hands-on [video]
At CES 2014 Road to VR caught up with YEI Technology, the company behind the PrioVR virtual reality motion input suit. We interview Paul Yost, head of development at YEI, to get the latest on this exciting system. PrioVR will...
