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.
HTC Vive Focus with Next-Gen XR2 Chipset Appears on Geekbench
A newly posted Geekbench score may point to what HTC has up their sleeves next for Vive Focus, the company's class of standalone VR headsets.
As first spotted by TechGenyz, a variant of HTC Vive Focus using Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2...
‘Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR’ Beta Updates Hint at “Upcoming hardware releases”
Updates to the beta version of Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, the official integration which allows Windows VR headsets to be used with SteamVR, hint at "upcoming hardware releases."
Update (September 2nd, 2020): A Microsoft developer says the reference to...
12 Indie VR Gems You Should Absolutely Consider Playing & Supporting
VR games are difficult to market, especially when they don't fit obviously into existing genres. Here's 12 gems you may have overlooked but are well worth your consideration.
Updated – August 21st, 2020
The Paradox of VR Game Development
There exists a...
Valve Index Back Orders Now Just ‘2 to 4 weeks’, The Lowest in Months
The Valve Index supply seems to be normalizing somewhat after the big COVID-19 world manufacturing slowdown, as all supported countries are now seeing shipping dates ranging from just two to four weeks on some packages.
Although the full Valve Index...
Analysis: Steam Hangs on to VR Surge Four Months After ‘Half-Life: Alyx Launch’
Half-Life: Alyx led to a huge leap in VR usage on Steam when it launched back in March. Four months later, there's nearly as many VR headsets on Steam as there were right after the game's launch.
Each month Valve...
Company Raises $30M to Make Programing Industrial Robots Easier With the Help of SteamVR Tracking
In an interesting bit of news which shows Valve's SteamVR Tracking technology used in a non-VR application, robotics company Wandelbots has raised a $30 million Series B investment around their TracePen tool, a motion-tracked stylus which makes it easy...
Following Success on Quest, VR Classic ‘Racket: Nx’ to Get Major Update, Likely Headed to PSVR
Racket: Nx, a virtual reality fusion of tennis and Breakout, is soon to get a major update with new features like co-op, avatar customization, and in-game tournaments. The studio has also teased that the game is heading to "another...
Play Team Shooter ‘Contractors’ for Free This Weekend on Steam
Contractors (2018), the team-based competitive multiplayer shooter, is running a free weekend on Steam starting today.
Contractors will be free-to-play until Monday, July 20th. You can download it now on Steam, which supports your standard range of SteamVR-compatible headsets, including Oculus...
VR Woodworking Game ‘vrkshop’ Arrives on Steam Early Access Today
Building something with your own two hands out of wood can be rewarding, but also messy, difficult, and not always practical depending on where you live. In the Early Access game vrkshop, which is available starting today, you'll get a chance...
PSVR Exclusive ‘Paper Beast’ is Coming to PC VR Next Week
Paper Beast, the surreal wildlife simulation first launched on PSVR, is slated to release on SteamVR headsets next week.
Update (July 15th, 2020): Pixel Reef today announced that Paper Beast is coming to PC VR headsets on July 24th, 2020. This will...
Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’
It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games, not experiments." It wouldn't be until late 2019 that one of the three was revealed as Half-Life: Alyx. But what of...
‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gets New Horde Mode in ‘Meatgrinder’ Update Today
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020) launched earlier this year to critical acclaim, and now the single-player zombie game just got an update that promises to bring more carnage to the dank, zombie-infested world with a wave-based horde...
SteamVR Update Finally Makes it Easy to Reorient & Recenter Your Playspace
The latest main-branch update to SteamVR adds a dashboard button which makes it effortless to redefine the 'forward' and 'center' orientation of your playspace, a simple but useful feature for certain games.
SteamVR has been around since the earliest days...
‘Superhot’ Studio: No Current Plans for VR Version of ‘MIND CONTROL DELETE’
With the unique ability to control time with your movements, SUPERHOT VR (2016) can make you feel like you're in The Matrix. It's on all major VR platforms, which cemented the studio a whopping $2 million revenue over the 2019 holiday season...
Inspired by ‘Mirror’s Edge’, ‘Stride’ Looks to Bring Smooth Parkour Action to VR
In development by studio Joy Way, Stride is a VR parkour action game built atop an impressively smooth and immersive locomotion system. With inspiration from Mirror's Edge (2008), Stride is an intriguing indie project due to launch this Summer.
Update (July 7th,...



















