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.

GameFace Mobile VR Headset Will Also Tether to PCs Through Valve’s OpenVR

GameFace Labs showed off their latest prototype mobile VR headset at E3 last week, a device that promises to deliver both a standalone Android-based mobile VR experience and a tethered PC experience in the same headset. GameFace calls their prototype headset a head...
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More VR Juggling With the HTC Vive, This Time Wirelessly

Back in May, Owlchemy Labs, developer of the forthcoming Job Simulator, shared with us a video that highlighted the impressive precision of the SteamVR controllers along with the HTC Vive. Now with the wireless SteamVR controllers in hand, Owlchemy's...

‘NewRetroArcade: Neon’ Bringing Multiplayer and “Huge Amount of New Content” to HTC Vive

Developer Digital Cybercherries has today announced plans to develop a new version of their acclaimed virtual arcade. NewRetroArcade: Neon will be built for SteamVR and will include multiplayer, motion-controls, and room-scale capability for the HTC Vive. Launched all the way back in 2014, NewRetroArcade is a...

Valve’s ‘Secret Shop’ HTC Vive Demo Introduces You to DotA 2’s Fantastic World Full of Magic

Valve showed off a special HTC Vive demo at this year's Gamescom featuring the shopkeeper from the Dota 2 universe. There's no telling yet, but Secret Shop looks extremely cohesive and shows a taste of what level of VR interaction may be just around...

HTC Vive Tracker is Now on Sale to General Public for $99

HTC's Vive Tacker, the Lighthouse-compatible puck that promises to get more than your hands into virtual reality with a bevy of hardware applications, is now officially available for sale to anyone with $99. Vive Tracker made its debut at CES...

‘Pool Nation VR’ Review

Video games have induced many emotions inside me over the years but, I don’t think any of them felt as real as the shame I felt when the AI computer, on easy, sunk his final ball against me. As...

HTC Viveport VR App Store Client Now Available – Breaking

HTC's virtual reality app portal 'Viveport', designed as a showcase for HTV Vive VR content, has it seems quietly made available at least some parts of the new platform, according to images posted online. Update: A helpful Twitter follower (thanks @killercow) pointed...

How to Play Wii and Gamecube Classics on Your Oculus Rift with DolphinVR

Ever wanted to play old gaming classics in virtual reality? Well, DolphinVR is an emulator with enhanced support for the Oculus Rift headset that lets you do just that. Here's how to get it working. Back in the dim, distant...
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Why New Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Makes You Smile

Rec Room is a new social VR platform for HTC Vive from indie studio Against Gravity, and as a project currently in Early Access for the low low cost of absolutely free, it's quickly becoming a success on Steam. At the time of this writing, more...

‘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....

HTC Launches Vive App on iOS to Keep You Connected While in VR

It's been known since early 2016 that HTC planned to integrate bluetooth into the Vive headset to allow your phone to talk to the headset while you're in VR, but we didn't know what platforms or specific functionality would...

Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat

Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation. I was able...

Racing in Assetto Corsa on the Oculus Rift DK2 is a Flawed Revelation

Oculus have prescribed that for this generation of its VR headsets, the target experience is resolutely a seated one. This means that racing games are a match made in heaven for the DK2. And, after a period of drought...
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HordeZ Brings Doom-style Multi-player Coop Carnage to HTC Vive

Developer Niklas Persson is working on bringing the visceral, gore-soaked carnage of the Doom series to virtual reality with HordeZ, a multi-player coop shooter for the HTC Vive. Whether you're willing to admit it or not, there's very little in...

Dirt Rally to Get Consumer Oculus Rift Support in Next Patch

One of the best driving games in recent years, Dirt Rally from Codemasters, will soon patch their virtual reality support to work on the recently release Oculus Rift consumer edition. Dirt Rally is, in this writer's opinion, the finest Rally...
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