Road to VR » Paul James

Bigscreen has released the latest lineup of big-name movies premiering this month in its recently released ‘VR Cinema’ feature. A virtual reality movie theater always has felt like an obvious...

https://www.roadtovr.com/bigscreen-vr-cinema-movie-rental-listing-lineup-january-2020/

Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with ‘MegaGrants’ and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000. Epic...

https://www.roadtovr.com/epic-games-100-million-megagrants-gdc-2019/

ILMxLab is to finally demo its upcoming Star Wars Virtual Reality series, Vader Immortal at the annual Star Wars Celebration event in April. We reported on ILMxLAB’s latest immersive VR experie...

https://www.roadtovr.com/ilmxlab-to-demo-vader-immortal-oculus-quest-star-wars-vr-celebration-in-april/

Oculus has revealed that the standalone, entry-level mobile VR headset Oculus Go will support refresh rates up to 72Hz and will make use of fixed foveated rendering. At GDC 2018 Oculus’s dedica...

https://www.roadtovr.com/gdc-2018-oculus-go-to-support-fixed-foveation-and-up-to-72hz-refresh/

GDC 2018 is in full swing and we kick of Wednesday with a Live Blog of Oculus’ “Inside Oculus 2018” session, which is set to give developers an insight into the Facebook owned VR company’...

https://www.roadtovr.com/gdc-2018-inside-oculus-2018-session-live-blog-930am-pdt/

HTC is expanding its out-of-home VR entertainment reach with a new deal with gaming giant IGT that will see its Vive hardware and software power a new competitive VR initiative where players comp...

https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-vive-casino-giant-igt-vet-partner-vr-tournament-platform-casino-floors/

HTC’s standalone, untethered VR headset the Vive Focus, will come to western markets later this year, HTC announced today. The company also announced that developers can register for Dev-Kit un...

https://www.roadtovr.com/gdc-2018-htc-vive-focus-release-date-international-2018/

NVIDIA today announced RTX, a GPU accelerated technology capable of producing photo-realistic imagery through realtime ray-tracing, all accelerated on the company’s latest generation of Volta G...

https://www.roadtovr.com/gdc-2018-nvidia-announces-rtx-real-time-ray-tracing-engine-volta-gpus/

Continuing its diversification from pure, cinematic experiences, IMAX has announced that it’s partnering with Warner Bros. to bring its forthcoming superhero movie franchises to virtual reality...

https://www.roadtovr.com/imax-warner-bros-partner-premium-vr-content-starting-justice-league/

One of the earliest big exclusive releases for VR, EVE: Valkyrie from CCP Games, continues to evolve and with the latest free expansion dubbed ‘Warzone’ the developers have opened its particu...

https://www.roadtovr.com/eve-valkyrie-warzone-update-adds-non-vr-mode-ps4-pc-cross-platform-play/

ViveNchill, the intriguing new bolt-on dual-fan cooling solution for the HTC Vive, has begun its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Update (7/17/17): The ViveNchill Indiegogo is now at 193% of...

https://www.roadtovr.com/vive-n-chill-cooling-solution-htc-vive-indiegogo-campaign-now-live/

Announced at Disney fan expo D23 today, Oculus are teaming up with Marvel to bring a new Rift exclusive title which lets you play as one of “more than a dozen” characters from their comic b...

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-marvel-announce-new-oculus-rift-touch-co-op-powers-united-vr/

Tower defence title Ancient Amuletor from TiGames is launching for PlayStation VR tomorrow sporting multiplayer co-op and an adorable art style. Here’s a look at the launch trailer. If you’ve...

https://www.roadtovr.com/watch-ancient-amuletor-brings-multiplayer-vr-tower-defence-to-playstation-vr-launches-27th-june/

ViveNchill is a new bolt-on cooling system comprising two angled fans that the creators claim will banish foggy, sweaty headset issues for good. Unsavoury headline aside, the folks at RedRotor (a...

https://www.roadtovr.com/vive-n-chill-cooling-solution-htc-vive-users-sweaty-vr-faces/

Skybound Entertainment in partnership with Skydance Interactive have confirmed that multiple interactive VR games based on the hugely popular The Walking Dead franchise are in the works. Here’s...

https://www.roadtovr.com/multiple-walking-dead-vr-interactive-vr-games-development/