Updated
Updated · roadtovr.com · Oct 6
Road to VR Marks 15 Years With Interactive XR Timeline and 10,000-Article Archive
Updated
Updated · roadtovr.com · Oct 6

Road to VR Marks 15 Years With Interactive XR Timeline and 10,000-Article Archive

2 articles · Updated · roadtovr.com · Oct 6

Summary

  • Road to VR marked its 15th anniversary by launching an interactive timeline that pairs major XR industry milestones with the outlet’s own coverage history.
  • More than 10,000 articles underpin the project, which lets readers zoom from yearly to month-by-month views of headset reveals, launches and each year’s most popular Road to VR story.
  • Founder Ben Lang said the site began in October 2011, before the Oculus Kickstarter and before today’s wave of big-tech competition, when VR was still widely seen as a failed technology.
  • The anniversary feature doubles as a retrospective on XR’s revival and an invitation for readers to place their own entry point into the industry’s timeline.

Insights

How did a niche tech blog survive brutal industry winters to document a massive spatial computing revolution?
After 15 years of hype and crashes, what hidden technology will finally make bulky virtual reality headsets obsolete?
With AI smart glasses now dominating sales, has the original dream of fully immersive virtual reality quietly died?