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News Bits: HL2VR 1.4 Mod Released, The Best Half-Life 2 Experience Just Got...
Back in October 2013 Road to VR’s Ben Lang described HL2VR, a Half-Life 2 mod specially crafted to make playing in VR as cool as possible, as “The best way to experience Half-Life 2.” The new version...
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Perception Neuron More Than Doubles Kickstarter Goal for VR Input Suit at...
Perception Neuron, a VR motion input suit by Beijing-based Noitom Technology, took to Kickstarter on August 8th and came to a very successful conclusion yesterday, reeling in nearly $572,000, more...
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Sixense Releases 3D Printable Components to Create Add-ons for STEM Motion...
After a successful Kickstarter in October of 2013, Sixense is nearing completion of their STEM motion controller. Prior to the first units shipping out to backers, the company it’s releasing 3D...
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Leap Motion ‘3D Jam’ Dev Contest Offers $75k in Prizes for Leap-Based...
Leap Motion is teaming up with IndieCade for a ‘3D Jam’ dev contest which utilizes the company’s motion controller. Leap recently released a ‘VR Mount’ for their motion controller which connects to...
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Nimble Sense Kickstarter Aims to Bring Time-of-Flight Depth-sensing Tech to...
Today Nimble VR launches a Kickstarter campaign for Nimble Sense, a natural input controller that the company says was designed for virtual reality input. And while Nimble Sense doesn’t at first...
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CES 2015: AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo Talks Social VR at Intel’s Booth
We had a chance to talk shop with the minds behind AltspaceVR, a yet unreleased social platform for virtual reality, located at the Intel booth at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. Executive Editor and intrepid...
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Oculus Rift VR Experiences Take Top Spots in Leap Motion ‘3D Jam’ Contest
Leap Motion’s ‘3D Jam’ dev contest, presented by the independent games festival IndieCade, is now officially over and the results are in. Among the 20 semi-finalists, who were awarded over $75,000 in...
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Leap Motion’s ‘Planetarium’ Gives you the Power to Grab Constellations
In a new technical demo from Leap Motion’s labs, you can use your hands to soar through space and manipulate entire constellations with mere gestures. The Planetarium aims to illustrate ideas in...
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Oculus Rift Creator: “Don’t get too hyped on the possibility of seeing [VR...
Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift, has preempted any rumors that Oculus might be showing a first-party VR input solution at the upcoming GDC 2015 in March. ‘VR input’, a more natural way of...
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Tactical Haptics Returns to GDC 2015 with New Demo for Haptic Controller
Tactical Haptics is coming back to this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco to give a fresh demo of their haptic controller, Reactive Grip. The device aims to give popular motion...
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Sponsored: Intel Developer Lab Explores Gesture Input With Latest RealSense...
On February 18th Intel held a developers lab in Rocklin, CA (north of Sacramento) in the new ‘Hacker Lab’ space at Sierra College. The event sought to teach devs the in’s and out’s of developing with...
View ArticleHapTech is Bringing Realistic Weapon Recoil to a VR Controller for $60
HapTech, formerly Striker VR, are specialising in haptic and recoil simulation for use in gaming peripherals. Ben Lang got to try out the company’s new prototype and chat with Founder and President...
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Sixense’s Danny Woodall on Porting ‘Jedi Training’ STEM Demo to Unreal Engine 4
Road to VR last caught up with Sixense at CES, where they demonstrated an early integration with Gear VR to add positional tracking. The ‘Jedi Training’ demo now comes to GDC, running on Unreal Engine...
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Leap Motion Partners with OSVR to Provide Integrated Sensor Faceplate for HDK
Leap Motion are furthering their commitment to the Open Source Virtual Reality initiative. They’re working with OSVR to produce a Leap Motion enabled faceplate for the project’s flagship VR Headset,...
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‘Ground Control’ and ‘Stompz’, Two Natural VR Controllers for Your Feet
The VR community has been rattling its cage for intuitive input devices for quite a while now, and because nobody really knows exactly what that means yet, we’re entertaining anything and everything...
View ArticleFirst ‘Perception Neuron’ Unboxing Video Appears, Shows Promising Accuracy
Perception Neuron, a VR motion input suit by Beijing-based Noitom Technology, took to Kickstarter on August 8th and came to a very successful conclusion, reeling in nearly $572,000, more than twice the...
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Yes, You Can Juggle in VR with the HTC Vive
When Alex Schwartz told people he could juggle in VR with the HTC Vive and SteamVR controllers, they didn’t believe him. But now he has video proof: not only can he juggle quite effectively with the...
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Google’s ‘Project Soli’ Radar Hand Tracking and How VR and AR Might Use it
Google’s I/O 2015 conference last week was packed with technology with potential uses with VR or AR. The most unusual among them, Project Soli, uses radar technology to detect minute movements and...
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Cyberith Reveals New Virtualizer ‘Analogue’ and ‘Decoupling’ Features,...
Cyberith are gearing up for the E3 Expo this month as they release details of new exciting Virtualizer (an omni-directional treadmill for VR) features. They’ve also confirmed they’ll be on hand at the...
View ArticleWatch 2 Players Take on GTA V with Cyberith Virtualizer Treadmills in Virtual...
Cyberith are well known for their fun and irreverent gameplay videos, demonstrating their omni-directional treadmill the Virtualizer. The team are back with this new video, showing 2-player Grand Theft...
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