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.

The HTC Vive Will Let You Call and Text in Virtual Reality

HTC Today unveiled the price and launch date of its SteamVR powered VR headset the Vive. They also revealed a new feature to launch with the Vive 'Consumer Edition', HTC Phone Services, a service which lets you make calls whilst...

The HTC Vive Costs $799 and Ships April 1st

HTC have finally officially announced the price of the 'Consumer Edition' of their Valve SteamVR powered virtual reality solution. The HTC Vive will cost a cool $799. Those eagerly awaiting news on how much they can expect to have to lay...
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This Zelda-style HTC Vive Game Scales its World to Fit Your Room

Legend of Luca is a VR-exclusive title, designed from the ground up to utilise the HTC Vive's room-scale emphasised tracking capabilities. Heavily influenced by Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda, the title will work aims to scale your virtual experience...
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New ADR1FT ‘Clair de lune’ Trailer is the Most Beautiful Yet

Three One Zero and 505 Games recently revealed that they'll be ready to ship their space exploration and survival game, ADR1FT, which is being developed for VR and standard gaming platforms, will be ready to ship on March 28th...

VR’s Presence Strong at MWC 2016, Road to VR will be there

Road to VR will be landing in sunny Barcelona, Spain for its very first Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, bringing you all the latest news to come out of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry—and quickly...
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Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival Heading to 10 Cities Worldwide

Kaleidoscope, the virtual reality and immersive film festival, is on the road again in 2016 - this time hitting 10 cities in 9 countries around the world to show case 30 VR works which demonstrate the power of the...

Playful’s Paul Bettner on Defining the VR Platformer with Lucky’s Tale

Paul Bettner is anxiously waiting for the Oculus Rift to launch so that he can finally see how real people react to what he's been pouring his heart into over the past three years. Playful Corp's Lucky's Tale is...
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New ‘Modbox’ Video Has Portals that Will Mess with Your Mind

We got our hands on Alien Trap's HTC Vive multi-player sandbox physics title at Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit last week and loved its playful encouragement to create and destroy. Now, this latest video shows the developer's tests with mind-bending...
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Hands On: Modbox on HTC Vive Indulges Your Creative & Destructive Urges

The human desire to create is strong, but our desire to destroy perhaps even stronger. Frank He takes Alien Trap's new, motion control, made-for-VR title Modbox out for a spin and finds he's all about the destruction. Physics sandbox with toys,...
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ADR1FT is Coming March 28th for Oculus Rift

Thee One Zero's made-for-VR 'astronaut in peril' game ADR1FT is one of the most anticipated releases for VR headsets, and now it looks to be launching, on March 28th - in close proximity to the consumer Oculus Rift ship...

HTC Vive Pre Arrives With Developers, Twitter Rejoices

HTC's second iteration of their SteamVR hardware, the Vive Pre, was unveiled last month at CES with a number of ergonomic and technical enhancements. Well it looks like developers worldwide are taking to twitter to rejoice the receipt of...
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VR Puzzler ‘Dimensional’ Has Interesting VR Locomotion Ideas, On Kickstarter Now

Dimensional from UK developers is a built-for-VR puzzle platformer for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift which leverage's experimental locomotion ideas to tackle nausea and enhance presence. The project has just hit Kickstarter, so we thought we'd take a...

SteamVR and HTC Vive Pre Gets ‘Direct Mode’

Valve has just announced that the latest release of SteamVR beta, its virtual reality platform SteamVR just upgraded its rendering pipeline to support Direct Mode, a way to bypass unnecessary operating system clutter to render directly to a VR...
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‘Universe Sandbox 2’ to Get VR Support, “Grab the Moon and Hurl it Toward Earth”

Universe Sandbox 2 is a physics-based space simulator from Giant Army that will soon be getting Oculus Rift and HTC Vive support, so you can build the Universe as you see fit in virtual reality—provided you adhere to the laws of classical...
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Developing Coop VR Games with Remote Presence Using the HTC Vive and Kinect

After featuring their new experiment which used the HTC Vive and Microsoft Kinect to the physical image of 2 players into virtual worlds remotely, we wanted to know more about how developers Jasper Brekelmans and Jeroen de Mooij had pulled it...
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