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.

‘HTC Vive’ App Returns to iOS to Keep You (Somewhat) Connected to Your iPhone Inside the...

While we first saw the HTC Vive iOS app appear at the end of March, it had vanished by the Vive's April 5th launch day. Now the app has returned to the App Store to keep you connected to your...

Stuck in VR, Send Help

Hello people of the real world. My name is Ben Lang. If you're reading this message, you're reading words composed and published from within virtual reality. Joking title aside, I'm actually inside AltspaceVR right now as I type, a social...

Steam Launches First ‘VR Weekend Sale’, 181 Vive and Rift Titles Discounted

Steam has launched the first VR Weekend Sale giving steep discounts on VR titles for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, including a huge 20-game bundle at 30% discount. Looking to bolster your VR game library? Vive and Rift owners...
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A Look at NASA’s Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive

At NVIDIA's GTC event earlier this month, NASA gave a talk which revealed just how important virtual reality has become to the organisation's Astronaut training program. This talk includes video demonstrations of NASA's advanced experiments designed to give workers...

Valve’s ‘Steam Direct’ to Replace Controversial ‘Greenlight’ Voting System

Steam Direct, a new sign-up system for launching games on the store, is due to replace Greenlight in Spring 2017. Currently, any developer or publisher new to Steam is required to submit their game for approval through Greenlight, which...

Classic ‘Serious Sam’ Gets “Full Locomotion” VR Version ‘The First Encounter’, Next Week

Croteam VR, the developers behind the popular first person shooter Serious Sam, are bringing their classic original instalment of the franchise to VR platforms next week with a new Early Access release called The First Encounter which promises full...

Critical ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Steam Bug Gets Patched

Robinson: The Journey's recent Steam release got off to a rocky start with a fatal bug which prevented players from even starting the game. Today, a 140MB patch from Crytek appears to have fixed the problem. Yesterday we reported on Robinson:...

Valve’s Lighthouse Room-Scale Tracking Illustrated IRL

SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve's 15x15 feet 'room scale' tracking looks like when applied in reality. Valve and HTC's Vive virtual...
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Google Announces Tilt Brush ‘Artist in Residence’ Program Featuring Over 60 Artists

Google have announced a new 'Artist in Residence' program which will see over 60 artists introduced to the emergent artistic platform of virtual reality via the company's own Tilt Brush application. As anyone who's tried it knows, Google's Tilt Brush...

My Hands-on With WEVR’s ‘theBlu: Encounter’ – Face to Face with a Giant of the Sea

WEVR's theBlu: Encounter was one of only a handful of titles to grace Valve's demo suite when the HTC Vive was revealed at GDC 2015 in March. Matthew Terndrup paid a visit to the developers' headquarters to spend some...
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The Fearless Creativity of ‘Lucid Trips’ is Exactly What VR Needs to Thrive

Born out of a lengthy period of experimentation, Lucid Trips begins with a novel method of locomotion and follows through with a unique approach to game design and multiplayer interactivity. Lucid Trips is an excellent example of the sort of...

Exclusive: VRClay Beta Hands-on, the 3D Sculpting Software for VR

Another video has surfaced within the past few days of VRClay, sparking more curiosity around the only 3D modeling software currently designed to be used in virtual reality. We reached out to the team behind the software and were granted an...

AMD GPUs to Support Asynchronous Reprojection via SteamVR

Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops below the headset's refresh rate. Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President...
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First Look: ‘TheWave’ Lets DJs Drop the Beat in VR

DJs looking to hone their musical craft in front of a live audience - or perhaps those looking for a more stimulating way to mix music - can rejoice. TheWave from developer WaveVR is looking to provide DJs with a psychedelic...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Free VR Experience is a Beautiful Glimpse at the Future

Deus Ex fans with VR hardware can rejoice as developer Eidos Montreal have launched a new, free VR experience based on their latest title in the series, Mankind Divided, and it's quite the looker. Deus Ex has had its problems as...
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