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.
Watch: Star Wars Battle Brought to Life in VR Via Tilt Brush
Designer and Creative technologist Dong Yoon Park has painstakingly recreated a Star Wars battle scene inside VR with Google's Tilt Brush. Watch this beautiful digital art come to life in this walkthrough and speeded up realtime recording.
Virtual reality artistry...
MSI Details VR One Backpack PC: 7.9 Pounds, GTX 10-series GPU, Hot-swappable Batteries
The ‘VR One’ from MSI debuts at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The backpack provides tetherless VR gameplay powered by NVIDIA's 10-series GPUs with a hot-swappable battery for extended VR gaming without a tether.
Each time we try mobile VR,...
‘Portal Stories: VR’ Brings 10 Made-for-VR Puzzles to the World of Aperture Science
When I loaded up Portal Stories: VR I was greeted with familiar sights and sounds from the Portal universe. A disembodied voice told that I was about to take part in an Aperture Science Virtual Reality Experiment, words I was...
Valve Takes ‘Onward’ Developer Under its Wing
VR exclusive online military simulator Onward has been wowing room-scale VR audiences since its inception and now lone developer Dante Buckley has been invited to continue development under gaming giant Valve's roof, at least for a short time.
One of...
Valve is Investing in Wireless VR via Video Streaming Company Nitero
Valve's annual Steam Dev Days event is underway and news about how the company is investing in VR's future is seeping out. One interesting development is that they're reportedly investing in 60Ghz wireless video streaming specialists Nitero, with a view...
Steam Expands VR Game Listings With Supported Headsets, Play Area, and More
In preparation for the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Valve has enhanced the categorization of VR games listed on Steam.
Steam first added a basic 'VR Support' category all the way back at the end of 2013,...
SteamVR ‘Shell’ is Customizable, Allows Seamless VR Game Switching and Web Browsing
The HTC Vive Pre is now in the hands of press and developers around the world and although hands-on impressions with Vive games are now fairly common, what's the SteamVR interface, where you spend your time between games, like to...
‘Panzerwehr: 1949’ Reimagines Mechs in VR as WWII-era Combat Machines
In development by indie studio KUKURU3, Panzerwehr: 1949 is a mech combat simulator made for VR which imagines an alternate WWII timeline where mechs rule the battlefield as anti-tank hunters in a war that's dragged on to 1949.
Panzerwehr: 1949 began as a tech...
Modbox is a Multiplayer Physics Wonderland for HTC Vive
Developers Alientrap have revealed details and a new trailer for their riotously fun looking physics playground title, Modbox, coming to SteamVR and HTC Vive next year.
There's something unusually compelling about games which utilise realistic physics upon which to build...
Valve’s Chet Faliszek on HTC Vive Launch Title Highlights
Valve's Chet Faliszek has been a key virtual reality evangelist & developer relations liaison over the past couple of years for the HTC Vive, and I had a chance to sit down with him at GDC as they were...
HTC Reveals ‘Vive Pre’ Development Kit at CES
HTC has finally taken the wraps off of the second development kit of the Vive VR headset, they're calling it the 'Vive Pre', and the new unit is being shown off here at CES 2016.
The Vive Pre largely seems...
‘Grav|Lab’ Lets you Build Incredible Machines with Oculus Touch and HTC Vive
Grav|Lab is a physics-centric puzzler which has you devising ever more elaborate ways to guide balls from one point to another. A simple premise, but one that lools instantly appealing.
One of the HTC Vive's most effective showcases early on was...
Unreal Engine 4.12 is Out Now, Gets ‘VR Editor’, OSVR and Google VR Support
Epic Games' popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12 now sporting Google VR 'Daydream' and OSVR native support. It also ships with a preview of the company's impressive VR Editor, which allows developers to...
‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter’ VR Support Removed in Patch, Developer Teases Future VR DLC
Well, this has been a small roller-coaster. First the new UE4 Redux of acclaimed mystery adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, did have VR support out of the box, then the developer admitted this was a mistake and now...
Squanchtendo’s ‘Accounting’ is Now Available on Steam (for Free)
Squanchtendo Games has released, Accounting, their first game as a new studio. While the game was originally scheduled for release in September, Squanchetendo decided to take a couple of extra weeks to squeeze in a bit more polish, and...



















