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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Create Your Own Solar System with the HTC Vive and ‘Planets’

This short trailer for upcoming title 'Planets' demonstrates how the HTC Vive can let you create a 'room scale' solar system of your very own. The HTC Vive, Valve's first flagship VR headset built on the Steam VR platform is...
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SHVR Vive Jam Dev Log #2: Prototyping and Debugging

The SHVR Vive Jam in Shanghai enters its second day. Developers have put pen to paper fingers to keyboard to begin executing their ideas. The 14 teams have access to three HTC Vive development kits for testing in 30...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #2

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. 10. REPSOL Offshore VR Did you ever fly on a helicopter to an...
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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...

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...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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