Back in November I highlighted a cool music video for the song Sweater by Belgium-based band Willow. The video used a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) and a treadmill to allow the singer to stroll through live virtual environments as the video was...

One of the things that makes virtual reality so alluring is the immeasurable possibilities. With minimal hardware these days you can transport yourself to a virtual world where you could literally rewrite the laws of physics if you wanted to. Virtual...

Here's another cool Oculus Rift 'fan ad' by Andreas Aronsson (click to enlarge)! A bit wide for a two-page magazine spread, but still cool ; ). What do you think?

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...