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.
SteamVR ‘Shell’ is Customizable, Allows Seamless VR Game Switching and Web Browsing
The HTC Vive Pre is now in the hands of press and developers around the world and although hands-on impressions with Vive games are now fairly common, what's the SteamVR interface, where you spend your time between games, like to...
A Company Serving 100 Million Gamers Wants to Help Bring Your VR Game to China
As the country with the single largest population in the world (1.4 billion people), China's gaming market is quite massive, but it's also a massively different marketplace than what we see in the West. Shunwang is the leading platform...
Valve Releases First SteamVR Developer Roundtable Discussion Video
Filmed as part of the recent SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, Valve have released the first in what appears to be a series of discussions with developers working on titles for the SteamVR platform and the HTC Vive.
Headed by...
Time Machine VR Launches with HTC Vive in April, New Trailer Lands
Minority Media have released a new trailer to celebrate the forthcoming launch of its time-travelling, subterranean adventure title Time Machine VR.
From the makers of critical hit indie game Papo & Yo, Time Machine VR has you piloting the titular flying...
‘Evolution Pinball VR’ is the ’80s Style Pinball Showdown You Always Wanted as a Kid
Pinball machines are a dying breed, but Evolution Pinball VR: The Summoning aims to put you back in touch with the arcade classic with the help of virtual reality.
Now in its first Steam Greenlight campaign, The Summoning promises to deliver physics...
‘Budget Cuts’ and Physical Room-Scale VR Gameplay on HTC Vive
Budget Cuts is a first-person stealth game that's one of the more fun and engaging room-scale HTC Vive experiences that I've played. You're an aspiring spy trying to infiltrate a robot-protected building in order to approve your job application....
‘Playthings’ is a Wonderful World of Hamburger Drums and Hot Dog Xylophones
Before his death, acclaimed psychonaut and technologist Terrence McKenna once said that virtual reality "...is a technology that will allow us to show each other our dreams. We will be able to build structures in the imagination that we...
15,000 HTC Vives Pre-Ordered in 10 Minutes, Now Backordered to May
The pre-order countdown for HTC Vive is over, but if you're still on the fence on whether to get that shiny new VR headset, you're still not too late to pick one up for May shipment.
What's more, according to a tweet...
‘Ninja Trainer’ on Vive is Like Kinect ‘Fruit Ninja’, Except it Actually Works (really well)
While Fruit Ninja was neat in concept, the performance limitations of the Kinect made it amount to little more than glorified flailing; the latency and lack of precision made you feel more like a parody than a ninja proper. Thankfully,...
Latest ‘Final Approach’ Trailer Shows New Gameplay and Mini-games
Phaser Lock Interactive's title Final Approach, the RTS-style airport management mash up gets a new gameplay trailer showing off much more of what you'll get up to, including a peek at mini games, fending off UFO invaders and micro-managing...
HP, Alienware, and MSI Among ‘Vive Ready PC’ Partners, Starting at $1,299
Mirroring the 'Oculus Ready PC' program, HTC is now working with PC hardware partners to offer 'Vive Optimized PCs'. The initial set of systems come from HP, Alienware, and MSI.
'Vive Optimized PCs' are "fully Vive-compatible right out of the...
The HTC Vive is Available for Pre-order Now
The HTC Vive VR headset is now available for pre-order from HTC's website. We tell you where you what it is, where you can buy it and how much you can expect to pay.
The HTC Vive is now up for...
HTC Vive Pre-orders Will Receive ‘Tilt Brush’ for Free
HTC today confirmed worldwide pricing for the SteamVR powered Vive VR headset, due to go up for pre-order tomorrow (29th Feb). They also announced that those pre-orders would receive Google's virtual reality, paint application Tilt Brush in addition to...
HTC Vive Worldwide Prices Confirmed, €899 in Europe, £689 UK
The HTC Vive VR system is due to go up for pre-order tomorrow (29th February) and we know the US launch price is going to be $799. But what can the rest of the world expect to pay for...
Developer Pushes Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking to its Limits
Developers Stress Level Zero, the team behind the HTC Vive shooter Hover Junkers, are known for their VR experiments. But their latest investigation pushes the theoretical limits of Valve's Lighthouse tracking system, as featured in the HTC Vive.
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