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.
Surgeon Uses Oculus Rift On Patients, Streams Operation Using Google Glass
One of the joys of writing about reporting from the cutting-edge of a newly reborn technology like virtual reality is that you're constantly being surprised as what people are finding to do with it. Almost weekly there's some innovation...
Adventures in Multiplayer VR with Radial-G and an Oculus Rift LAN Party
Take a room full of geeks, a collection of networked gaming PCs, a trio of Oculus Rift DK2s and the latest virtual reality racers and what do you have? A somewhat unconventional christmas party.
The place, an office building somewhere in the...
Preview: ‘Buzludzha VR’ Gives New Life to an Abandoned Soviet Megastructure
The imposing Buzludzha Monument in central Bulgaria once invoked infallible power, a power that once rested with the nation's Communist Party. The brutalist megastructure, opened to the public in 1981 and later abandoned after the lifting of the iron curtain, now lies in ruins, with...
We Play Elite: Dangerous in the DK2 – In-Depth Hands-On Video
A couple of days ago, I asked you - our dear readers - what you'd most us to try once we received our Oculus Rift DK2s (mine arrived yesterday). Elite:Dangerous has been consistently among the highest requested games you guys...
Waltz of the Wizard Trailer Brings the Magic to VR and Motion Controllers
Asunder developer Aldin Dynamics has been creating VR content since 2013 and they're back, this time with an experience designed to demonstrate the magic of virtual reality by gifting your virtual self wizard's powers.
Aldin Dynamics have now been invested in...
VR Pet Tracking with the HTC Vive and Bandit the Dog
HTC Vive title Hover Junkers creators StressLevelZero felt that their house pet Bandit was missing out on all the room-scale VR goodness enjoyed by the rest of the clan, so they rigged up a controller and put him in VR.
The...
‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’ Coming to HTC Vive, Leaked Trailer Indicates
Star Wars is coming to the HTC Vive courtesy of ILMxLab we now know, thanks to the experience's trailer leaking briefly. It's to be called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine and this is what it looks like.
The experimental arm of the special...
New Job Simulator Trailer Reveals Final Job: The Automotive Mechanic
Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is coming to the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch support this year and launches alongside (and indeed in the box) with the HTC Vive. This latest trailer for the game reveals the fourth and final...
Polynomial 2 Aims to Hold You in a Musical VR Trance, Out Now on Steam
Polynomial 2, the sequel to the 2010 original, brings its trance inducing, laser fuelled musical charms to virtual reality.
The original Polynomial received some reserved critical reaction on its release back in 2010. In fact, although reviews appeared in gaming publications...
Following Oculus Rift Price Reveal, HTC Thinks Vive Customers will be ‘happy with their investment’
With the price of the Oculus Rift headset coming in above the expectation of many, eyes turn to competitor HTC, whose Vive system has yet to be priced. The company isn't ready to commit to a firm price for...
Watch: Crytek’s ‘Codename: Sky Harbor’ VR Experience is a Bombastic, Visual Treat
Launched as part of Basemark's VRScore benchmarking software, the Crytek developed VR tech demo Codename: Sky Harbor, is one of the most visually impressive examples of VR cinema around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYworrQwmw
Direct from our time with Basemark's promising virtual reality benchmarking suite,...
‘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...
Google’s ‘Tilt Brush’ Gets Sketchfab Support to Share VR Artwork Across the Web
The latest update to Tilt Brush brings welcome improvements, including support for showcasing creations on the popular online 3D model viewer Sketchfab.
Tilt Brush, Google's virtual reality paint program for the HTC Vive got a major update recently to version 7.0,...
Preview: Jon Favreau’s ‘Gnomes and Goblins’ Sparks the Imagination and Demands Your Curiosity
Gnomes & Goblins is a real-time interactive experience currently in development by VR production company Wevr and created by film director Jon Favreau, an industry professional known for his work on films such as the Iron Man franchise, Chef (2014) and The Jungle Book...
‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive Gets Early Access Launch Date and Multiplayer
One Hamsa, developers of VR sports game Racket: Nx, announced that the Early Access version will arrive on Steam in late January 2017. This first version will also include "competitive" multiplayer and a new single player mode.
The Racket Nx...




















