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Valve is Bringing the Steam Library into VR with SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode
Valve today confirmed the existence of SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode which will effectively allow players to play any game from their Steam library inside of VR on big virtual display.
For the best VR experience, games need to be designed from...
Second-gen Lighthouse Chip Could Improve Tracking, Reduce Cost of HTC Vive 2
A new chip that Valve is recommending for use in future SteamVR headsets and accessories brings improved performance and significant power reduction compared to the first generation solution along with potential manufacturing savings.
An essential component in the first generation HTC...
NASA-backed ‘Mars 2030’ is a Breathtakingly Real Slice of Martian Landscape the Size of ‘Skyrim’
Backed with support from NASA, the development of Mars 2030 is underscored by a singular mission: do everything possible to make the player feel like they're actually on Mars. And that, apparently, means starting with a massive, detailed recreation of...
First Look: The ‘Elite: Dangerous’ Experience on HTC Vive is the Best Yet
EGX 2015 was seemingly over flowing with virtual reality headsets this year and interestingly, with the exception of a handful of Playstation VR demo stations, the Valve's flagship VR Headset the HTC Vive dominated. A nice surprise too, Elite:...
Latest ‘Revive’ Update Lets You Play 35 Oculus Home Games on HTC Vive
Revive, the mod which lets HTC Vive owners play games released only on Oculus Home, has just got a new release and is now compatible with 35 titles in the Oculus Store.
Revive, a free mod project created by LibreVR in...
4 Virtual Reality Desktops for Vive, Rift, and Windows VR Compared
While it’s all too easy to lose ourselves in the countless VR worlds at our fingertips, sometimes we just need to access the desktop and get things done in Windows. Thanks to a few innovative apps, this is possible...
You Can Access Oculus Home with DK2, Play Free and Paid Content Right Now
There's plenty of reasons to be excited for the Oculus Rift to arrive at your doorstep in the next few days (or months), but don't throw out that DK2 just yet, because there's still some life in the old...
Inside ‘Realities’ Jaw-droppingly Detailed Photogrammetric VR Environments
Realities wants to transport viewers to exciting places across the globe in ways that are much more immersive than the single, flat vantage point of a 360 degree photo or video. The company is creating an efficient photogrammetry pipeline to build sometimes...
HTC Vive Orders Halted in U.S. “Due to Extraordinary Demand” [Update]
The HTC Vive has recently become listed as "out of stock" for U.S. orders. The company says it's no longer taking orders for the headset in the region "due to extraordinary demand."
Update (5/14/16, 7:59 PM): HTC has confirmed via...
This Video Does a Great Job of Showing What It’s like to Be Inside Virtual Reality
You'll hear the mantra time and again "you have to use virtual reality to understand what it's like." And for the most part that's true. VR is so new and different that using old media like text, photos, or...
7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick
You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put...
Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive
Road to VR's Scott Hayden goes hands on with Valve's latest virtual reality experience, a collection of experiments in immersive gaming known as 'The Lab'.
In the first public showing of the Lab, we got a chance to jump into...
PlayStation Pro Launch Brings 13 Confirmed PSVR Enhanced Games
Hot on the heels of Sony's recent PlayStation 4 powered PSVR VR headset Launch, the next, more powerful iteration of the PS4 console will launch on November 10th and Sony have announced the games set to feature 'Pro' enhancements, including 13...
How to Configure VorpX to Play GTA V on the Oculus Rift
PC Game launches don't come much bigger than Grand Theft Auto, and GTA V's launch just last week has been no exception. Similarly, VorpX's rapid addition of GTA V support to allow players to experience the game on the...
‘Aerofly FS2’ Brings Ultra Realistic Flight Simulation to Rift and Vive
Aerofly from developers IPACS is a flight simulator which aims to bring realistic visuals to the VR-enabled civilian flight-sim genre, and it looks stunning.
One interesting side effect of virtual reality and its early adoption by the games industry is...








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