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 to Hit 100 US Stores, Orders Now Ship in 72 Hours Worldwide

HTC has announced that it's first VR headset, the SteamVR powered Vive, is to appear at 100 retail locations from this month and for those ordering online, they're promising to ship to you within 72 hours wherever you are...

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,...

Manus Announces VR Gloves Developer Kit Priced $250, Shipping in Q3

Manus VR are developing what they claim will be the first consumer virtual reality glove and have announced that their first developer kits are to go on sale at $250, developers can grab a pre-order reservation today. Update: We incorrectly...
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TIME-LIFE and HTC Launch 75th Anniversary ‘Remembering Pearl Harbor’ Experience for Vive

Launching today for $10 on HTC's VR app store, Viveport, Remembering Pearl Harbor commemorates the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1941 tragedy that led the US to join World War II. A collaboration between TIME's LifeVR,...

HTC’s Vive President on What’s Happening in China & VR

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what's happening in China. He provided me with a lot of cultural context, which...

‘World of Comenius’ Demonstrates Powerful Educational Interaction with Leap Motion and Oculus Rift

We recently covered a (at that point unnamed) VR project by developer Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík, the mind behind the stunning 'Sightline' VR series of demos. The project fused Leap Motion skeletal hand tracking with Oculus Rift DK2 positional tracking to...
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‘Tornuffalo’ Shows What Full-body VR Gaming Could Look Like with Vive Trackers

Using HTC’s Vive Trackers, Tornuffalo—named after a combination of 'tornado' and 'buffalo'—has been given a 'Full-Body Action' mode, an early example of full body tracking in a VR gameplay scenario. This simple action game involves dodging flying debris (which...
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Watch: Crytek’s ‘Codename: Sky Harbor’ VR Experience is a Bombastic, Visual Treat

Launched as part of Basemark's VRScore benchmarking software, the Crytek developed VR tech demo Codename: Sky Harbor, is one of the most visually impressive examples of VR cinema around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYworrQwmw Direct from our time with Basemark's promising virtual reality benchmarking suite,...
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‘Spellbound’ Lets You Cast Virtual Magic with your Real Hands

Spellbound is a new made-for-VR game which uses Leap Motion and the Oculus Rift DK2 to allow your actual hands to perform some nifty spell-casting in the virtual world, amongst other things. In this intriguing new title from Seattle based developer...

‘Iron Man’ Director Jon Favreau’s First VR Project ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Looks Delightful

Veteran Director of Iron Man, Chef and more recently The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau has now teamed up with veteran VR production house WEVR on a brand new project entitled 'Gnomes & Goblins', a realtime VR experience set in a magical...

‘Virtually Dead’ Mixes Live Zombie Theatre with VR Driven by the HTC Vive

The latest out of home, live VR attraction to hit the UK, Virtually Dead mixes free-roaming virtual reality with live theatrical performances to bring Zombies to life in a secret East London location. The third UK based virtual reality attraction...
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6 Game Industry Artists Let Loose in HTC Vive ‘Tilt Brush’ Competition

NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming...

‘Trackmania Turbo’ Receives Free VR Update for PlayStation VR, Rift and Vive

Ubisoft today rolled out free VR support for Trackmania Turbo, the latest installment in the online multiplayer arcade racer series. The update is now available for owners of the game on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. A total of 40 tracks...

‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’ Coming to HTC Vive, Leaked Trailer Indicates

Star Wars is coming to the HTC Vive courtesy of ILMxLab we now know, thanks to the experience's trailer leaking briefly. It's to be called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine and this is what it looks like. The experimental arm of the special...

Ubisoft Sets Dates for VR Titles ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’, ‘Eagle Flight’ and ‘Werewolves Within’

Ubisoft have announced the release dates for it's first three dedicated VR games, 'Star Trek: Bridge Crew', 'Eagle Flight' and 'Werewolves Within'. Ubisoft are one of the first triple-A games studio to throw their weight behind virtual reality in gaming in...
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