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.
Hands On: ‘The Assembly’ Offers New ‘Comfort Mode’, a Multi-Pronged Attack on Sim-Sickness
nDreams, a UK based games studio producing upcoming VR title The Assembly, are declaring war on the discomfort commonly associated with first-person VR games. We sat down with Senior Designer Jackie Tetley and Communications Manager George Kelion at Gamescom 2015...
Oculus PC SDK 0.7 is a Major Overhaul, New Direct Driver Mode Made with NVIDIA &...
Oculus have given developers a heads up on their forthcoming PC SDK release, due August 20th. The release brings with it major overhauls, not least of which include a new Direct Driver Mode, developed in conjunction with NVIDIA and...
Black Delta Brings VR Racer ‘KartKraft’ to Gamescom with Motion Simulator
Australian studio Black Delta have announced that their "hyperrealistic, high-speed kart racing" game will arrive in Q4 2015 with Oculus Rift support. What's more, for it's Gamescom 2015 debut, the team have a hexapod motion simulator rigged cart plus...
‘Pollen’ Devs Talk Narrative, HTC Vive Integration and Putting Beer Cans into Microwaves
Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville...
New ‘The Assembly’ Gameplay Video Offers Insight into VR Development
The Assembly is a morally ambiguous adventure game built from the ground up for virtual reality by nDreams. In this new gameplay video, Senior Designer Jackie Tetley walks you through some brand new footage whilst offering commentary on how...
New ‘Pollen’ Footage Demonstrates Gameworld Interactivity
Mindfield Games, a Finland based games studio, have given Road to VR exclusive new footage showing pre-alpha gameplay of their soon-to-launch sci-fi themed exploration VR title, Pollen.
Update: At the request of Mindfield Games we've removed the video footage of Pollen as...
HTC Vive Nominated for ‘Best Hardware’ in Gamescom 2015 Awards
Virtual reality hardware has set something of a trend at trade show awards over the last few years. Oculus in particular have traditionally cleaned up in the 'best hardware' category at shows like CES for example. Now it seems...
New Elite Dangerous: Horizons Trailer ‘Lands’
Frontier Developments just announced a new expansion series called 'Horizons' bringing with it planetary exploration and a new loot system. Here's a new teaser trailer to whet your appetite ahead of the expansion's first instalment's release - set for Christmas...
‘Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ Expansion to Offer Planetary Landings, Crafting and Looting
Frontier Developments, creators of intergalactic trading and combat title Elite Dangerous have today announced a series of expansion packs which will bring planetary landings and will offer new crafting an looting systems.
Elite Dangerous was one of the first triple-A studio release...
HTC and SHVR Partner for Shanghai Vive Jam, Road to VR Supports as Official Media Sponsor
August 14th kicks of the SHVR Vive Jam, a collaboration between HTC and the Shanghai VR Meetup to bring teams from across China for a weekend of rapid prototyping room-scale VR experiences for the SteamVR platform. Road to VR...
SUPERHOT Beta Released Along with New Gameplay Video
The bullet time infused action game SUPERHOT has just released a beta version of the game to Kickstarter backers and a new video showing gameplay from the new release.
SUPERHOT has enjoyed a good amount of publicity since its successfully...
‘Vivecraft’ Demo Shows Just How Amazing Minecraft and More Will Be with Natural Input
A developer at Facepunch Studios, the team behind Garry's Mod, has whipped up a Minecraft VR prototype for the HTC Vive. Thanks to natural input devices like the SteamVR controllers, interaction and manipulation will be beyond anything gamers have seen...
HTC Vive World Tour Makes 6 Stops in August, Your Chance to Try ‘Room Scale’ SteamVR
Want to step inside the HTC Vive and SteamVR? HTC continues their 'Vive World Tour', hauling the headset around the US and beyond to give folks a chance to try out the new headset. The tour makes five stops...
Insider Notes from the HTC Vive VR Jam at London’s Playhubs
The HTC Vive came to London recently, courtesy of Valve and PlayHubs, to form the centrepiece of a dedicated VR Jam. Mike Algar charts his room-scale developer adventures for us in this guest post from inside the event.
Mike Alger is...
Crytek’s David Bowman “We’re One of the Largest VR Teams on the Planet”
Revealing one of the most polished VR demos we've seen to date, CryEngine and Crysis developer Crytek were in fighting form at E3 in Los Angeles this year. We speak to Director of Production David Bowman who was bullish about...




















