After making new Index stock available today after more than a month of the hardware being sold out, most regions saw the headset and other hardware quickly backordered by eight weeks or more.
The recent coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) has stymied many of the industry’s most important conferences and expos this year. To avoid this, HTC today announced it will be holding its next Vive Ecosystem Conference (VEC) from within virtual reality.
Valve is working on a ‘Single Controller Mode’ among its accessibility options for Half-Life: Alyx so that players who can only operate one controller can complete the game in its entirety.
With the re-introduction of the company’s Cosmos VR headsets with four different variants, HTC’s Vive lineup has become a confusing mess with 11 different headset packages to choose from. Even when just considering the Cosmos lineup itself, the company’s approach to ‘modularity’ makes little practical sense.
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 new environments by joining a user-hosted room.
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 support existing titles; Sparc (2017), a 1v1 VR sport game now has launched on Springboard VR, making it accessible to users of VR arcades running the platform. And while the title seems like it would be a great fit, CCP remains silent on whether it will bring Sparc to 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.
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, the studio has released these previously exclusive minigames for PC VR players too.
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 clunky and some of it borderline broken. Now, SteamVR is getting a dashboard overhaul which is ditching Big Picture.
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.
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.
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 conference speakers.
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 VR game will play.
