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.

Easily Sharpen Vive and Rift Visuals With Supersampling Using ‘OpenVR Advanced Settings’

'OpenVR Advanced Settings' is a dashboard overlay that allows access to advanced functionality of any headset running SteamVR. The menu is accessible in VR, meaning you can easily adjust options such as supersampling without removing your headset. Last year we...

TPCAST Wireless VR Add-On Available Worldwide Q2 for $249

HTC has confirmed that the TPCAST wireless VR solution for the Vive VR headset will be available worldwide in Q2 this year at $249. As predicted in our recent VR retrospective, there were a lot of companies showing solutions that...

Latest HTC Vives Are Shipping with Tweaked Base Stations, Redesigned Packaging

Although HTC has hardly even hinted at a Vive 2, the company is continuing to make subtle improvements to their first headset that's been selling in stores since April 2016. In addition to a 15% reduction in weight, the latest...

The 10 ‘Must-Have’ Oculus Rift Apps and Games of 2014

Any way you slice it, 2014 has been an incredible year for VR. So, as we rapidly approach the close of the best year consumer VR has ever known, we attempt the impossible and pick our 10 games or...

Hack Makes ‘Google Earth VR’ Compatible With Rift and Touch

Google Earth VR was launched this week to great excitement, except to Rift users who found out that the game wouldn't work with their headset. Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Steam VR’s Lighthouse Tracking System

Lighthouse is Valve's laser-based tracking system that forms the bedrock of Steam VR's input system. Alan Yates, Hardware Engineer at Valve was a key player in the system's design and implementation. Alan, frustrated with being asked the same questions...

How to Play ‘No Man’s Sky’ in VR (Warning: Strong Stomach Required)

This is how to get No Man's Sky running on your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset using the VR injection driver VorpX. Be warned though, you'll need to have an iron constitution before setting out. No Man's Sky is a game...

Oculus Rift and HTC Vive Roomscale Dimensions Compared

Ahead of the launch of Oculus Touch, the company has finally detailed its 'experimental' camera arrangements for 360 degree and 'roomscale' tracking, allowing us to take a look at how those tracking volumes compare with the HTC Vive. The Vive...
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SUPERHOT VR Dev Responds to Oculus Exclusivity Criticism, Free to Kickstarter Backers

One of the earlier titles to be used by Oculus to demonstrate the potential of virtual realit gaming SUPERHOT is to be completely reworked for a new VR specific version that's built for motion controls, and in particular Oculus...

Alan Yates Says Rift’s Core Features Are a “Direct Copy” of Valve’s VR Research

In a revealing statement on Reddit, Alan Yates, a Valve employee who works closely on the company's Lighthouse tracking system, claims that the Oculus Rift headset is largely derived from Valve's research. Back when Oculus launched the original Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign in 2012,...

Oculus Rift Growth Spurt Halts HTC Vive Market Share Expansion

There's been a lot of talk about the latest data from Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, most of it drawing erroneous conclusions about overall market share of VR headsets while missing out on a very interesting data...

This is the Beginning of VR Education, and It Will Only Get Better

At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that dropped them into a fascinating, immersive, educational...

‘Fallout 4 VR’ Will Be “the whole game,” Launching June 2017 or Sooner

Bethesda has confirmed that Fallout 4 VR for the HTC Vive will be the entire game and not just a demo or vertical slice. Further, the company says the Fallout 4 VR release date will come within 12 months. While...

Hands-on: HTC Vive Pre Brings Notable Improvements to Visuals, Tracking, and Ergonomics

Although the HTC Vive saw a significant delay, pushing its expected delivery date way back from Q4 2015 to April 2016, development of the headset has not stalled. The new Vive Pre, the second Vive development kit, makes improvements...

New NVIDIA and AMD Drivers Unlock ‘Direct Driver Mode’ for Oculus Rift Users

Oculus' recently released 0.7 SDK and Runtime Drivers were a significant step forward in technology for the company, offering up major enhancements for Rift users. AMD and NVIDIA have now both launched drivers which allow Rift developers and users alike...
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