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New SteamVR Home Environments Are Your First Look Inside ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
For those that pre-ordered the game, Valve has brought two Half-Life: Alyx environments to SteamVR Home, giving players their first chance to step inside the game. Even if you didn't pre-order the game, it's still easy to check out the...
‘Sparc’ Comes to Arcade Platform Springboard VR, but CCP Remains Silent on Quest Port
CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, was an early proponent of VR and launched a handful of VR games as the industry was kicking off. Though it isn't actively developing new VR titles, the studio has continued to...
‘Lies Beneath’ is a Comic-inspired Survival Horror Game Exclusively for Rift & Quest
Lies Beneath is an Oculus-exclusive survival horror VR game from Drifter Entertainment, the studio behind Gunheart (2018). The studio has honed in on a unique comic book / cel-shaded style which looks like almost nothing else in VR to date.
Lies...
‘L.A. Noire VR’ for PC Gets Minigames Previously Exclusive to PSVR
Rockstar Games brought L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (2017) to PSVR in a surprise launch last September, bringing along with it some minigames to keep you shooting, punching, and driving with moxie well after you'd interrogated your last suspect. Now,...
SteamVR Gets a New Dashboard, Finally Ditching Steam Big Picture
From very early on, the SteamVR dashboard had adapted Steam's 'Big Picture' mode which was designed for use on big screen TV's rather than in VR. As it wasn't made with VR in mind, much of its functionality is...
3dRudder Pro Wireless Launching for Enterprise in Late March, Supporting Quest & PC VR
3dRudder, the VR locomotion controller, already comes in both PC and PSVR flavors, both of which require a wired connection. Now, the France-based company announced its bringing a wireless version of the device to enterprise customers later this month.
3dRudder...
Valve to Release ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ SteamVR Environments You Can Explore with Friends
Half-Life: Alyx is now less than three weeks away from launch, and to further stoke the inevitable hype surrounding the game's impending release on March 23rd, Valve is releasing some new SteamVR Home environments to Valve Index owners.
Valve says in...
NVIDIA is Making GTC Online-only Due to Coronavirus Concerns
NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) isn't taking place as planned this year due to coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns. The company says it will still offer up a livestreamed keynote by founder & CEO Jensen Huang and recorded talks from various...
Watch 19 Minutes of New ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gameplay Footage & Trailers
The first Half-Life: Alyx gameplay footage was released today by IGN and Valve in the form of three gameplay trailers and a nine minute stretch of gameplay footage. This is the best look yet at how Valve's first full fledged...
HTC Announces New Vive Pro Eye Packages for Enterprise, Reduces Base Kit to $1,400
HTC Vive today announced it will soon be offering two new business bundles for Vive Pro Eye, its enterprise-focused VR headset with integrated eye-tracking. Additionally, the company is reducing the original 'all-in' Vive Pro Eye kit to $1,400 from its...
NVIDIA Adds VRSS Support to Five More Games Including ‘Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’
Last month NVIDIA introduced a Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) feature for its RTX graphics cards. The feature applies supersampling in supported VR games only where it matters most to save GPU resources. A new driver released today adds VRSS...
Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Over Coronavirus Concerns
Facebook today announced that its annual F8 developer conference isn't happening this year due to concerns over the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Facebook's Konstantinos Papamiltiadis released word today via a Facebook blog post, stating that the company has cancelled the "in-person component...
Mind-bending VR Art Showcase ‘Museum of Other Realities’ Exits Early Access
The Museum of Other Realities (MOR) first launched into Early Access on PC VR headsets in June 2019, bringing with it a curated selection of multi-sensory art pieces from some of the medium's most talented illustrators, animators, and engineers. Now,...
Sketchfab Launches Public Domain Program so Museums Can Share Cultural Relics in 3D
Sketchfab is a great resource for developers looking for a place to share and download 3D models—all of which can be viewed in VR headsets. Now, the company has launched a new program that makes it easier for museums...
Microsoft Says it Hasn’t Given up on the VR Side of Windows Mixed Reality
While Microsoft has been full steam ahead on the augmented reality side of Windows Mixed Reality via HoloLens, the company has had very little to say in the last year about the VR side of its platform. While it...




















