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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
VRLO 3.0 Event Wrap-Up Features Autodesk, Bossa Studios, HammerheadVR and More
VRLO is a London based VR event which celebrated its third outing in December, bigger and better than ever before. Road to VR's Jonathan Tustain was there to report from the show. Here's a nifty wrap-up tour featuring a collection...
The HTC Vive Pre is Now Shipping to Developers
The second generation SteamVR development kit, the HTC Vive Pre, was unveiled at CES in January and included numerous enhancements. Valve have now announced that the new Pre systems are on their way to developers.
In the run up to...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #1
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
Take a thrilling ride through the colorful city on the beach on...
7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick
You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put...
‘Virtually Dead’ Mixes Live Zombie Theatre with VR Driven by the HTC Vive
The latest out of home, live VR attraction to hit the UK, Virtually Dead mixes free-roaming virtual reality with live theatrical performances to bring Zombies to life in a secret East London location.
The third UK based virtual reality attraction...
‘Adventure Time’ Game Coming Soon to All Major VR Headsets
Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games is a whimsical Gear VR 3D platformer featuring all of your favorite characters from the show. Fans of Adventure Time better keep their eyes peeled in the coming months though, as the game is 'coming soon' to...




















