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.
Catching Up with nDreams’ ‘The Assembly’, Coming to Rift and Vive July 19th
The Assembly from nDreams is coming soon, and with an official release date of July 19th now announced, we thought we'd take some time to catch up on this intriguing story-driven thriller built from the ground up for VR.
The...
Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus
Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from.
Showdown was created...
Build and Race on Your Own Tiny Racing Track with ‘Tiny Wheels’
The days of setting up ludicrously long Hot Wheels tracks and launching the tiny diecast metal cars straight into the side of a hastily constructed LEGO fort are all but over—not when you can practically revisit the glory days...
‘Assetto Corsa’ Racing Sim Adds Support for Vive & OSVR via Native OpenVR
This week's v1.13 update to Assetto Corsa includes native OpenVR support, adding official Vive and OSVR support to the title. The popular racing simulator previously only supported the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive owners had to use the Revive hack...
MythBusters’ Adam Savage Steps Inside Nvidia’s ‘VR Funhouse’ Physics Playground
Nvidia takes Mythbuster's Adam Savage inside their VR Funhouse application which is a sandbox for new technologies made possible with the company's latest Pascal-based GPUs.
Nvidia created VR Funhouse as an example application showcasing many of their proprietary real-time physics...
‘Warpaint’ Brings Tabletop Gaming-inspired Turn-based Strategy & Customization to VR
Recently launched on Steam, Warpaint is a turn-based strategy game that lets you customize your troops by painting them to your taste. The game supports both Mac and PC, and features VR support via SteamVR (Vive, Rift, and OSVR)....
Beautiful PvP Space Explorer ‘Detached’ Gets Official Steam Release May 18th
Already on Steam Early access, the very pretty online PvP space explorer / dueller Detached from developers Anshar gets a new, official release on May 18th with a sprinkle of new features and a new multiplayer map.
Described by Polish...
HTC Vive Support Coming to Altspace’s Social VR Platform, Experimentation Ongoing with Gear VR
I recently sat down with "Cymatic" Bruce Wooden, Developer & Community Relations Manager at AltspaceVR, a social virtual reality space that allows users to connect and communicate with voice chat and shared web browsing. While the software currently supports the...
Valve Move to Kickstart the VR Cybercafé with New SteamVR Licensing Model
Valve has announced a new 'Site Licensing' model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on SteamVR powering a renaissance in VR-enabled Cybercafés.
Lets...
Latest ‘Blade Runner VR’ Screenshots Show Incredible Attention to Detail
We reported a while back on a hobby project by 3D modeller Quentin Lengele to reproduce Rick Deckard's apartment from the classic dystopian Sci-fi flick Blade Runner (1982). Well, the project received an update recently with screenshots showing great progress and...
Meet Strangers in VR and Create Beautiful Things Together
What if you could take the magical sense of creativity evoked by Tilt Brush and share that with someone else, online, simultaneously, using nothing but your hands for input? That's the ethos behind developer Mike Harris' latest project, StrangersVR.
If...
Preview: ‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive
Matthew Magee gets active and takes a swing at the new futuristic VR sports featuring heavy classic arcade influences for the HTC Vive, Racket: Nx.
I’ve always felt that there’s an innate satisfaction in hitting things with other things, as much...
‘Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality’ Announced for HTC Vive
Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland today revealed a teaser for an upcoming VR game called Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality based on the cartoon's lovably weird universe. The HTC Vive demo of the game will make its debut at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego.
Developed by...
Valve ‘Vive’ Developer Edition Kits Have Arrived – First Unboxing Images Appear
Valve’s first ‘Vive’ Developer Edition VR headsets and controllers are now shipping and some lucky devs already have them. We take an early look inside the box.
Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in March this year,...
The HTC Vive Pre is Now Shipping to Developers
The second generation SteamVR development kit, the HTC Vive Pre, was unveiled at CES in January and included numerous enhancements. Valve have now announced that the new Pre systems are on their way to developers.
In the run up to...



















