PC VR News & Reviews
The latest PC VR news. In this section you'll find SteamVR reviews, games, and news on Valve's latest moves in XR and spatial computing.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Steam VR’s Lighthouse Tracking System
Lighthouse is Valve's laser-based tracking system that forms the bedrock of Steam VR's input system. Alan Yates, Hardware Engineer at Valve was a key player in the system's design and implementation. Alan, frustrated with being asked the same questions...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Gets 33% Price Cut Across All Headsets
EVE: Valkyrie (2016), one of the first games to launch on the Oculus Rift (and eventually found its way to PSVR and the HTC Vive), is getting a big price cut.
Eve: Valkyrie is a sci-fi spaceship dogfighting game that...
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:...
Valve: Only 30 SteamVR Apps Have Made $250,000+ (and other truths of the young VR market)
During a recent media event, Valve revealed that only 30 VR apps have made over $250,000 so far on Steam. Now focusing his company heavily on VR development, Valve president Gabe Newell remains bullish on the future of VR,...
‘Nemesis Perspective’ Pits VR Player vs. Screen Player in Asymmetric Multiplayer Gameplay
Evocat Games’ first title Nemesis Perspective is a two-player action game where one player uses a gamepad and traditional screen to operate a third-person hero character, while the other assumes the role of an ‘endgame boss’, towering over the hero...
Watch the First 10 Minutes of ‘Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality’
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017) is finally here, launching today on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. And yes, it's all the wonderful weirdness of the show mixed in with some seriously fun object interaction courtesy of the game's...
‘Diplopia’ Becomes ‘Vivid Vision’, Trials Get Underway – Interview with CEO James Blaha
Diplopia is a virtual reality title designed to provide targeted exercises for those suffering from vision issues. The team behind the application are rebranding, changing their name to Vivid Vision. Brian Hart caught up with CEO James Blaha to get...
This is Gamecube Classic ‘Super Mario Sunshine’ Running in VR
Another Nintendo classic title from the past makes it into virtual reality courtesy of Gamecube emulator Dolphin VR. This time it's the turn of Super Mario Sunshine, returning here complete with high resolution texture hacks and running at 60...
‘Athena’ is a New Lighthouse Tracked VR Gun Controller from Ilium VR
Ilium VR are working on a new VR-centric gun peripheral which plans to use Valve's SteamVR 'Lighthouse' tracking to bring realistic weapon control to virtual reality games.
Shooting things in games is cool. Shooting things in VR can be infinitely cooler....
Watch: How ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Used SteamVR Tracking to Shoot VFX
It's emerged that last year's Star Wars: Rogue One, used existing virtual reality technology - specifically HTC Vive's Steam VR tracking - to allow the film's director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Watch how it was done.
Whatever you...
‘John Wick Chronicles’ Review
Neo-noir action-thriller John Wick (2014) has come to the Vive in its new VR wave-based arcade shooter John Wick Chronicles. Recreating the look and feel of the film franchise while offering up a heavy slice of gun play and plenty of moving targets, the game can be...
SteamVR Update Adds Asynchronous Reprojection
NThe latest update to SteamVR adds asynchronous reprojection for Nvidia GPUs. Similar to Oculus’ asynchronous timewarp, it mitigates unwanted ‘judder’ when the hardware fails to maintain 90fps.
Available via the SteamVR Beta since October 25th, asynchronous reprojection is a much-awaited...
SteamVR to Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within “a Few Months”
Valve is planning to introduce beta versions of its SteamVR platform for Mac OSX and Linux users within a few months.
One thing's for sure, if you're a PC user wanting to indulge in a spot of immersive entertainment right...
News Bits: GTA V Publisher on VR Support “.. we’ll be first in line to give...
Take Two Interactive, publishers of the phenomenally successful Grand Theft Auto franchise have gone on record stating that if there is customer demand for virtual reality support in their games, it's ready to provide it.
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Valve’s Only VR Title, ‘The Lab’, is the Highest Rated Game on All of Steam
Among more than 9,000 games on Steam, Valve's VR title The Lab is heading the platform's list of top rated games.
Valve's The Lab is a free VR-only title that offers players eight short room-scale experiences which range from photogrammetry to castle...












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