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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.

‘Bigscreen’ Social Computing Space Metrics Show Big Value for VR Power Users

Bigscreen VR announced that they raised $3 million dollars for their "social utility" VR application. Bigscreen gives you access to your computer screen in VR, which is a deceptively simple idea but one that is unlocking new ways of...

The HTC Vive Will Let You Call and Text in Virtual Reality

HTC Today unveiled the price and launch date of its SteamVR powered VR headset the Vive. They also revealed a new feature to launch with the Vive 'Consumer Edition', HTC Phone Services, a service which lets you make calls whilst...

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...

Mindshow’s VR Movie-making Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Play-acting

Frank He rediscovers his childhood and finds a new talent for improvisational performance as he goes hands on with Mindshow, a new virtual reality application that lets you create and act in your own interactive movies. A childhood experience some of us...

VR Devs Experiment With Virtual Locomotion at HTC Vive VR Jam in Austin

Last weekend, Owlchemy Labs and VR Austin hosted an event in conjunction with Valve, HTC, Nvidia, Epic, and Unity, that gave VR developers a chance to created rapidly prototyped VR experiences for the brand new HTC Vive headset that works...

NailCanvasVR Lets You ‘Virtually’ Experiment With Nail Polish Designs

Have a hard time getting past the character selection screen of video games because you're too busy picking out the perfect clothes and styling your hair just right? If so, there's some fashion-oriented VR applications popping up that might be right down...

Valve’s Lighthouse Base Station in Action, Inner Workings Explained

Some of the inner workings of Valve's Lighthouse base station, an infrared laser-emitting device used for 'room scale' positional tracking, were revealed today by Valve developer Joe Ludwig. Ludwig's SVVR Conference talk entitled "OpenVR and You" addressed a number of issues dealing...

Speculation: HTC Vive’s Tracking Uses Inivisible, Projected Markers for 360 Degree Inside-Out Tracking

There's still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding HTC's Steam VR Headset the Vive, not least of which how exactly the tracking solution works. There is one theory that has emerged which does offer a plausible solution. Yesterday, in the chaos...

VorpX Update Released – DK2 Support, Early Positional Tracking, DX11 G3D Support and More (video)

The new version of VorpX, the 3D driver that lets you play non-VR games on your Oculus Rift, has just been released and it adds early support for the DK2, Geometry 3D support for DirectX 11 games and positional...
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Hands On: Crytek Unveils Oculus Rift Exclusive Title ‘The Climb’

Crytek is widely known for best-selling titles like Crysis and the Far Cry series, but today they’re announcing an exciting new VR-exclusive game called The Climb. When coupled with previously-announced VR games Robinson: The Journey and Dinosaur Island, it...

Kite & Lightning Raises $2.5M for ‘Bebylon’, a “mini-Sword Art Online”

Kite & Lightning, an LA-based studio known for some of the burgeoning VR industry's most polished experiences, today announced that their next big project, the VR vehicular melee party brawler Bebylon Battle Royale, has been funded to the tune of $2.5...

Ubisoft’s ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’ VR Game Includes Oculus Touch Support

A recently released press shot confirms that the new Star Trek: Bridge Crew title from Ubisoft has been built for the Oculus Rift headset and forthcoming Oculus Touch controllers. It seems that the previously leaked information on the forthcoming Star...

Preview: ‘Alice VR’ is a Reality Bending Sci-Fi Puzzler for Rift and Vive

Alice VR is a sci-fi exploration puzzle game from Carbon Studio coming out soon for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR. I was taken through three levels of the game, which studio co-founder and Art Director Aleksander Caban says is more...

The HTC Vive is Coming to Gamescom 2015, Register Now to Try it

The HTC Vive is on the move. As part of the company's 'World Tour', they're bringing their Steam VR flagship VR headset to Cologne, Germany so that attendees of Gamescom can see what all the fuss is about. The HTC Vive,...
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‘Pollen’ Devs Talk Narrative, HTC Vive Integration and Putting Beer Cans into Microwaves

Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville...
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