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.
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First Look: ‘Proton Pulse’ is Coming to Vive and Touch with New Mechanics

Proton Pulse, the instant classic VR demo harkening back to the Rift DK1 days is coming to the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch with brand new mechanics. We've got the first look at how it'll play. Proton Pulse is most easily...

Project Cars v7.0 Patch Brings More Oculus Rift Enhancements

One of the early titles to pledge and receive virtual reality support, Driving Simulation title Project Cars has refined it's support for the Oculus Rift headset in the latest 7.0 patch. Project Cars from Slightly Mad Studios, has received a...

HTC Vive Pre-Orders in February, “We Could Have Started to Ship Vive” CEO Claims

HTC recently announced that it the expected arrival date for its SteamVR powered headset the Vive had slipped from 'holidays 2015' to April 2016. HTC's CEO Cher Wang claims however that "...we could have started to ship Vive this month". So,...
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Modbox is a Multiplayer Physics Wonderland for HTC Vive

Developers Alientrap have revealed details and a new trailer for their riotously fun looking physics playground title, Modbox, coming to SteamVR and HTC Vive next year. There's something unusually compelling about games which utilise realistic physics upon which to build...

“Second Generation” HTC Vive Development Kit to Debut at CES in January

HTC today announced that it will be launching the "second generation" of the HTC Vive Developer Kit at CES 2016 in January. HTC made the announcement today via a blog update which confirmed a delay of the commercial launch of...

HTC Vive Delayed to 2016, 7,000 Additional Developer Kits Coming Early Next Year

In an update to the company's blog today, HTC has announced that the Vive VR headset for Valve's SteamVR platform will be delayed until April 2016. Announcing back in March that the HTC Vive would launch to consumers starting in...

Valve Adds Support for Latest Oculus Rift SDK in SteamVR Update

Amidst ongoing development of Valve's SteamVR platform, a recent update has brought support for the latest version of the Oculus Rift SDK and Runtime. Apparently in an effort to ensure continued support for the Oculus Rift through SteamVR, a November...

Elite:Dangerous Horizons 1.5 Beta Brings HTC Vive Support

Elite:Dangerous is evolving and the first in a series of expansions, named Horizons, will be available on November 30th - bringing with it a host of new features. One exciting addition is the first inclusion of official HTC Vive...

Elite:Dangerous Gets Big Black Friday Discount

One of the finest virtual reality experiences around has just got a whole lot cheaper as Frontier Developments joins the holiday sale madness and slashes the price of it's space epic Elite:Dangerous by 67% to just £9.99 ($15). The seasonal...
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Psytec Games and Windlands Team Join Forces

Two up-and-coming VR development teams behind two extremely promising made-for-VR games have relvealed they are to team up. Psytec Games, makers of Crystal Rift, has announced that the duo behind Windlands, a first person VR grappling hook action title, are to...
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This Leap Motion Shooter is Inspired by Dreamcast Classic ‘Rez’

Motion sensing peripheral specialists Leap Motion's second development event '3D Jam' has had over 180 submissions for projects that fuse the Leap's input capabilities with virtual reality. This entry 'VRez', inspired by classic Dreamcast shooter Rez, caught our eye as a...

Play Fallout 4 in VR, with the Latest VorpX Update

VorpX, the drivers that lets you play your favourite games in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift, has just received an update that brings with it official preliminary support for the newly released Fallout 4. Hot on the heels of...
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Sólfar Secures $2.1M to Recreate Everest in VR and Get You to Climb it

Icelandic developer Sólfar Studios have announced that their quest to bring one of the world's greatest natural wonders, Mount Everest, to virtual reality just got a significant boost. They've announced received over $2M in seed funding to bring their mountaineering...
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dSky’s Celestrion Lets You Tinker With Your Own Virtual Solar System

Developers dSky have just launched a public beta of their Oculus Rift DK2 compatible virtual reality Orrery, Celestrion. It's an extremely polished looking application the allows you to play with a "...working heliocentric 3d model of our solar system." and...
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Design Your Dream Kitchen with the HTC Vive (video)

A result of the AEC Hackathon, Helsinki - this neat prototype application lets you don the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, pick up the SteamVR controllers and sculpt your own designer kitchen. A simple but neat user interface lets...
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