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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Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus

Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from. Showdown was created...

Hands On: ‘Pollen’ is Still a Sci-fi Mystery Waiting to Unfold

Pollen is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle exploration game produced by Finland based Mindfield Games. Taking you to the far-off research station on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, you follow an ominous quest to explore a mysterious time-bending phenomenon that has taken hold of the...
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K&L’s Beautiful ‘GE Neuro’ Lets You Explore a DJ’s Brain, Available to Download Now

VR creators Kite and Lightning, the minds behind the dazzling Senza Peso amongst many others, have released their latest experience named 'GE Neuro', dubbed by the team as a "...portal into the human brain, allowing viewers to enter, view, and explore...
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‘Call of the Starseed’ Gameplay on the HTC Vive at PAX Prime 2015

Cloudhead Interactive were at PAX Prime in Seattle this weekend, showing off their latest (and newly titled) first installment in their 'The Gallery' saga, Call of the Starseed, featuring their recently announced 'Blink' VR locomotion system. The game was...

Hands On: Otherworld Interactive’s ‘Nimbus Knights’ HTC Vive Demo at VRLA

The VRLA Summer Expo was held this weekend at the LA Convention Center, and it was bigger than ever. Otherworld Interactive was there, showing off their brand new HTC Vive game Nimbus Knights, a cutesy RTS where your aim...

PAX Report: Vive Hands-on With ‘Final Approach’, ‘Fantastic Contraption’, and Cloudhead’s Blink System

This weekend's PAX Prime convention in Seattle was home to a number of exciting new experiences for the HTC Vive. This audio report from Voices of VR host Kent Bye gives us his impressions with the latest room-scale experiences. Kent...

Hands-on: Creating Magical Machines in ‘Fantastic Contraption’ on HTC Vive

Greetings from delightfully temperate Seattle! At this weekend's PAX Prime, I had my first experience in the HTC Vive and got to see the brand new Fantastic Contraption demo. Christine Genova Porter caught the VR bug in late 2014. She's...
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3D Mapped HTC Vive Demo Brings Archaeology to Life

Realities.IO is a company specialising in the scanning and visualisation of archeological sites of interest. The company is using their detailed scanning data to recreate those sites in room-scale VR, courtesy of the HTC Vive. This new video demonstrates the potential power...
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‘Papo and Yo’ Creators Launch ‘Time Machine VR’ via Steam, Try it at PAX Prime

Time Machine VR is an action adventure title from Papo and Yo developers Minority Media, which puts you in the shows of a time-travelling scientist searching for an ancient cure for a modern day plague. It's a native VR...

New NVIDIA and AMD Drivers Unlock ‘Direct Driver Mode’ for Oculus Rift Users

Oculus' recently released 0.7 SDK and Runtime Drivers were a significant step forward in technology for the company, offering up major enhancements for Rift users. AMD and NVIDIA have now both launched drivers which allow Rift developers and users alike...

Oculus SDK v0.7 Beta is Released With ‘Preliminary’ Windows 10 Support, Multiple Enhancements

The latest v0.7 release of Oculus' Software Development Kit and Runtime Driver is now here, bringing with it multiple enhancements alongside preliminary Windows 10 support. As we detailed a couple of weeks ago, Oculus' latest and much anticipated SDK release is...
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Ubisoft and MM Company to Bring ‘Trackmania’ Full-Motion VR Chair to Paris Games Week

Ubisoft has announced a partnership with MM Company, a Ukraine based start-up that has developed a chair specifically for use with VR headsets. The chair, called the MMOne, works along three axis and is able to rotate 45 degrees left and right, raise 45 degrees and revolve 360 degrees. MM...

Valve Dials Back Vive Release Expectations, Suggests Bulk Will Ship in Q1 2016

Having revealed SteamVR and the Vive VR headset just six months ago, Valve and HTC set an aggressive consumer release date of Q4 2015. This would make the companies first-to-market over major competitors. Now, however, Valve is dialing back...

HTC: Consumer Vive Is “Gonna Look a Lot Different” – Modular Headphones, New Mounting System, and...

While the HTC Vive's room-scale VR experience is one of the best available today, the device itself still needs to undergo a significant metamorphosis from development kit to consumer-ready product. Details about exactly what changes we'll see in the...
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‘Fantastic Contraption’ Devs Announce VR Remake for HTC Vive, Coming to PAX Prime

Fantastic Contraption, the free 2008 building game that challenged players to use a variety of tools to get their contraptions from point A to point B, is receiving a 3D makeover for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. According to...
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