Project Holodeck is an effort out of USC to create a multiplayer virtual reality gaming platform that offers full avatar embodiment and immersive first-person gameplay. Some members of the Project Holodeck team made the lengthy trek from the States to Dublin,...

A friend spotted someone wearing a prototype Google Glass HMD in New York City and shot me this photo. You can see that the Glass unit has prescription lenses, something that hasn't been seen in public until now. This...

Last week Palmer Luckey took the stage as a keynote speaker at Evolve 2012 in London. The conference is an "event exploring everything that’s cutting edge and innovative in game development – new platforms, new technologies, new business models and...

I just stumbled across this excellent video showing a brief history of virtual reality. The video is from the YouTube channel Silicon Classics. It focuses mainly on the Forte VFX1 head mounted display but also gives a great overview of...

Here's something a bit different: a 'fan ad' I whipped up for the Oculus Rift head mounted display. This is just a concept that popped up while thinking about how Oculus Inc. might market the Oculus Rift 2.0 HMD...

Last month Sony launched Book of Spells, a Harry Potter augmented reality game that takes advantage of the PlayStation Move and new 'Wonderbook' peripheral. The game, which is intended for children, uses the Wonderbook as a tracking marker for...

If you've been following along for a bit here at Road to VR, you know I've got a chip on my shoulder when it comes to AR. So far we've seen few  useful implementations of augmented reality. The technology exists to...

Time for a catch up on the latest Oculus Rift news. In this edition of ORNB we look at an Oculus Rift review of a prototype developer kit and learn details about the new 7" display that the head...

Minecraft Reality is an AR app created by 13th Lab in Conjunction with Minecraft developer Mojang. The app, which is currently only available for iOS devices, allows users to place Minecraft creations in the real world as augmented reality...

This sounds like a simple question, but it is one that I've been meaning to discuss. Without a foundation, everything we talk about on this site is more or less floating somewhere in abstract space. To ground the subject,...