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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.

‘Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ Expansion to Offer Planetary Landings, Crafting and Looting

Frontier Developments, creators of intergalactic trading and combat title Elite Dangerous have today announced a series of expansion packs which will bring planetary landings and will offer new crafting an looting systems. Elite Dangerous was one of the first triple-A studio release...

Combining VR, RTS and Twin-Stick Shooting with ‘AirMech: Command’

James Green is the creative director at Carbon Games, and he was inspired to create AirMech: Command from playing a 1989 game called Herzog Zwei, which was one of the first real-time strategy games that also used a gamepad...

Valve Dials Back Vive Release Expectations, Suggests Bulk Will Ship in Q1 2016

Having revealed SteamVR and the Vive VR headset just six months ago, Valve and HTC set an aggressive consumer release date of Q4 2015. This would make the companies first-to-market over major competitors. Now, however, Valve is dialing back...
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Watch: ‘Special Delivery’ Brings Atari Classic ‘Paperboy’ Style Action to VR

Classic 80s Atari arcade game Paperboy is to get a spiritual (albeit commercially unrelated) successor in the form of a new Oculus Touch and HTC Vive title Special Delivery from developers Meerkat Gaming. Here's what it looks like in...
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‘ABE VR’ Creators Are Making Survival Horror Game ‘Syren’ – Teaser Trailer Here

Hammerhead VR, the creators of the splendidly creepy ABE VR, a short VR film that puts you at the mercy of a robot gone awry, today revealed a first-person horror game called Syren. Hammerhead is a VR production studio that’s worked with VR game development,...
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Skyworld Trailer Reveals Epic New Steam VR TBS Game for HTC Vive

Valve and their partner HTC stole VR enthusiasts' hearts at GDC last week when the unveiled their Steam VR platform. Now, a new game coming to Steam VR, Skyworld, demonstrates a use for that room-space tracking with this debut...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #5

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. We love racing games and we hope you do too. Here's a...

Oculus ‘Home’ Brings VR Enabled Games Portal to the Consumer Rift

Oculus showed off their solution for virtual reality enabled software delivery platform today when they gave us a glimpse of the latest version of Oculus Home. Oculus' press event in San Francisco today may have been short, but it was packed...
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Hands On: Everest VR is a Visceral, Beautiful Interactive Documentary

Frank He continues his VRLA Winter Expo adventures as he goes hands on with Everest VR, a HTC Vive powered experience from Sólfar Studios and RVX, that blends beautiful visuals with informative narration to present a compelling, interactive VR documentary. Guest...
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4 Videos That Take You Inside Valve’s ‘The Lab’

The HTC Vive is here, and we're finally allowed to show you The Lab, Valve's Portal-themed playground of VR demos that gives you a beautifully cohesive tour of what's possible with room-scale VR. To get a better look at just what it had...

Valve and SMI are Working to Add Eye-Tracking Support to OpenVR

Eye tracking experts SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) have collaborated with Valve to bring their technology to OpenVR. Eye tracking-enabled HTC Vive units are being shown at GDC 2017, as part of an R&D effort to integrate eye-tracking support into Valve’s...

HTC Launches ‘Vive Studios’ for First-party VR Game Development and Publishing

HTC today announced that they've spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios. Mirroring Oculus' own 'Oculus Studios' effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Like other first-party studios,...

Black Delta Brings VR Racer ‘KartKraft’ to Gamescom with Motion Simulator

Australian studio Black Delta have announced that their "hyperrealistic, high-speed kart racing" game will arrive in Q4 2015 with Oculus Rift support. What's more, for it's Gamescom 2015 debut, the team have a hexapod motion simulator rigged cart plus...

Oculus and Microsoft to Offer Xbox One VR Streaming, Native Rift Support in Windows 10

At Oculus' special event in San Francisco today, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox at Microsoft - announced a close partnership with Oculus to offer VR streaming of Xbox One games and native Windows 10 support for the Oculus Rift. Phil...

This Fun PvP Vive Game Brings Frantic Bomberman-Style Action to VR

MNGOVR's new title for HTC Vive is a wildly colourful and fantastically fun PVP title which seemingly draws inspiration from the Hudson Soft classic Bomberman and is at once wonderfully simple and frantically addictive. Bomberman from Hudson Soft represented some...
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