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.

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.

Minecraft is Finally Coming to the Oculus Rift

Minecraft is finally on its way for the Oculus Rift as the Windows 10 version of the mega hit social world-building game is due to add VR support "in the coming weeks". The game which Oculus CTO John Carmack cited...
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Inside the ‘DOTA 2 VR Hub’

Dota 2 released free DLC yesterday that lets you join a sort of multi-user VR spectator lounge where you can watch live and recorded matches from a movie theater-sized screen, or get down on the ground right in the midst...

Beautiful Space Shooter ‘Everspace’ Beta Begins Today, New Gameplay Trailer

We've been keeping an eye on Everspace, the new VR-enabled space combat shooter from Rockfish, for a while now and it looks as if the company are finally ready to unleash the title on the world as the beta...

Steam Launches First ‘VR Weekend Sale’, 181 Vive and Rift Titles Discounted

Steam has launched the first VR Weekend Sale giving steep discounts on VR titles for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, including a huge 20-game bundle at 30% discount. Looking to bolster your VR game library? Vive and Rift owners...

‘Dota 2’ Releases Social Spectator Mode ‘VR Hub’

Dota 2 today released free DLC that lets you watch live and recorded matches from SteamVR compatible headsets. The new VR Hub adds a social component to the game that lets you and your friends watch Dota 2 together like never...
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‘L.A. 2097’ is Your Own Little Slice of ‘Blade Runner’

L.A. 2097 is VR experience loosely based on the tech-noir classic film Blade Runner (1982), and although offering only a single re-imagined scene from the film—Rick Deckard's high-rise apartment balcony—the demo holds a surprisingly tight grip on the imagination. We spoke with project creator...

Kite & Lightning Raises $2.5M for ‘Bebylon’, a “mini-Sword Art Online”

Kite & Lightning, an LA-based studio known for some of the burgeoning VR industry's most polished experiences, today announced that their next big project, the VR vehicular melee party brawler Bebylon Battle Royale, has been funded to the tune of $2.5...

Limited Edition DOTA 2 Championship HTC Vive Now Available

Feeling your immersive adventures leave you lacking in the style department? Want to stand out from the VR crowd? Then this new limited edition HTC Vive headset might be for you. Given the distinctly tethered nature of the current generation...

HTC Vive Accessory Store Now Stocks Things You Actually Need

Want to know how much a replacement HTC Vive Base Station or SteamVR controller would set you back should the worst happen? HTC's Vive accessory store has been updated to include these items, along with some eye opening prices. The HTC...

OSVR Launches Pre-orders for HDK 2 VR Headset, Begins Shipping July 29

Starting today OSVR is taking pre-orders for the HDK 2, the modular, open source ‘Hacker Development Kit’ VR headset which the organization says will ship starting on July 29th. Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same...

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...

‘Mr. Robot’ 360 Experience Set to Stream to all Major VR Headsets For Limited Time

Mr. Robot fans take note: a special one-time-only 360 experience is headed your way for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR and Google Cardboard-enabled smartphones exactly at 10:45 AM PST on Thursday, July 21st. According to a report by Entertainment Weekly, the 360 experience...

‘The Assembly’ Review

The Assembly is a first-person adventure game that wants to put your moral fiber to the test. Much like a novel, the game alternates back and forth between two characters: a brilliant neurologist entering the shadowy research institute eponymously dubbed 'The Assembly', and...

Oculus Rift Growth Spurt Halts HTC Vive Market Share Expansion

There's been a lot of talk about the latest data from Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, most of it drawing erroneous conclusions about overall market share of VR headsets while missing out on a very interesting data...

Analysis of Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ Tracking System Reveals Accuracy

Valve's 'Lighthouse' tracking system affords the HTC Vive a 'room-scale' tracking space for the VR headset and its controllers through the use of area-sweeping lasers. But exactly how accurate is it? Oliver Kreylos, a VR researcher at UC Davis,...
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