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.

SteamVR and HTC Vive Pre Gets ‘Direct Mode’

Valve has just announced that the latest release of SteamVR beta, its virtual reality platform SteamVR just upgraded its rendering pipeline to support Direct Mode, a way to bypass unnecessary operating system clutter to render directly to a VR...

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...

‘Rec Room’ Studio Raises $5M “to continue to build the future of Social VR”

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio's social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with...

Today Only: Vive Anniversary Brings $100 Discount, Free Content, Viveport Subscription Service Launch

With the Oculus Rift anniversary sale soon coming to an end, it's now time for the HTC Vive—which launched just a week after the Rift—to get in on the celebration. The April 5th anniversary of the Vive launch, which HTC is...

Hands-on: ‘Rick and Morty Simulator’ on HTC Vive

I recently got the chance to go hands-on with Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-ality on the HTC Vive from Adult Swim and Owlchemy Labs. The first thing I noticed about the game is that seeing 2D characters in 3D...

First Look: ‘New Retro Arcade Neon’ Launches Today with All New Arcade Space, Multiplayer, Mini-games, and...

The much anticipated New Retro Arcade Neon, a totally revamped version of the lauded virtual reality arcade, finally lands on Steam today, built to take advantage of the HTC Vive. While the original New Retro Arcade, debuting on the second...
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This Live Mixed Reality Solution Uses Kinect to Eliminate Green Screen

This project uses Kinect depth cameras to the fuse virtual and the real to produce real-time mixed reality footage with no green screens required, all using Microsoft's depth camera Kinect. Mixed reality is all the rage and has become one...

HP and MSI Show Off ‘PC on Your Back’ for Untethered Rift and Vive Sessions

HP and MSI are working on concept 'PC on your back' projects (often known as backtops) which opens the door to untethered PC-level virtual reality experiences by allowing you to carry around your VR experience without those trailing cables. A relatively...

Mozilla Research VR Launches Experimental Website Compatible with Oculus Rift

Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...
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VorpX’s New Virtual Cinema Lets You Play Non-VR Games on a Virtual Big Screen

vorpX news has been thin on the ground just recently, but that's because the team behind the project have been busy preparing one of the biggest releases yet. v0.8.0, released today, brings with it a raft of new features,...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #3

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. Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of...

Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and ‘Revive’ Dilemma

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive, an act that has caused outrage...

Minecraft is Finally Coming to the Oculus Rift

Minecraft is finally on its way for the Oculus Rift as the Windows 10 version of the mega hit social world-building game is due to add VR support "in the coming weeks". The game which Oculus CTO John Carmack cited...

SoundStage Lets You Build Your Dream Music Studio in Room-Scale VR

This is SoundStage, from solo developer Logan Olson, a VR application that aims to let musicians build their own dream music studio, allowing them to play, record and mix from within VR on the HTC Vive. Being a musician can...
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HTC Shows Vive Pre Working Great for Seated VR at CES

While the HTC Vive is known for its 'room-scale tracking space, the company maintains that it works just as well for seated VR experiences. At CES 2016, HTC showed just that, using Elite Dangerous running great on the new Vive...
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