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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.

Vote in NVIDIA’s ‘Tilt Brush’ Contest For Your Chance to Win a GTX 980 Ti

Six game industry artists converged on NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently to take part in an art contest using Google's VR painting program, Tilt Brush. You could win a NVIDIA's flagship VR-ready GPU, the GTX 980 Ti, just by voting for...

‘VR Duck Hunt’ Team Wants to Build Your Favorite Arcade Classic, Vote Now

Want to see your favorite classic arcade game realized in virtual reality? The makers of a VR prototype of Duck Hunt for HTC Vive are taking suggestions from the community to do just that. The campaign is called VRcade Challenge, and there are more...

HTC Considering Separating Vive VR into Standalone Business, Report Suggests

HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang may be considering spinning off the VR side of the business into a separate entity, causing stock prices in the Taiwanese company to rise sharply today. HTC's having a tumultuous time right now, with rapidly diminishing cash...

‘Blocked In’ VR Diorama Gets Visual Overhaul and Oculus Runtime v0.7 Update

One of the most original, visually arresting and sombre VR experiences, Blocked In, has just received an update bringing with it a host updates from reworked geometry to Oculus runtime 0.7 support. This test version of the much loved Blocked...

News Bits: New Atajrubah Dev Update Includes UE3 vs. UE4 Video

We wrote about Atajrubah recently and noted that the development team had moved to Unreal Engine 4 after spending much of the game's life up to that point as a UE3 project. The Oculus Rift enabled open world survival...
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dSky’s Celestrion Lets You Tinker With Your Own Virtual Solar System

Developers dSky have just launched a public beta of their Oculus Rift DK2 compatible virtual reality Orrery, Celestrion. It's an extremely polished looking application the allows you to play with a "...working heliocentric 3d model of our solar system." and...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #2

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. 10. REPSOL Offshore VR Did you ever fly on a helicopter to an...
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Preview: ‘Null of Hope’ Brings the Retro Adventure RPG to VR

Null of Hope, a retro first-person adventure RPG produced by Wade Arcade, gives a new twist to the genre and puts you in the game like never before. A 'list and click' variant of the popular 'point and click' games of the...
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This is Fantastic Contraption as a ‘Desk Scale’, Seated VR Experience

HTC Vive title Fantastic Contraption has flaunted its room-scale credentials to impressive effect in various mixed reality videos. Now, the team from Radial Games and Northway Games demonstrate you can enjoy the title just fine as a seated 'desk...
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SHVR Vive Jam Dev Log #2: Prototyping and Debugging

The SHVR Vive Jam in Shanghai enters its second day. Developers have put pen to paper fingers to keyboard to begin executing their ideas. The 14 teams have access to three HTC Vive development kits for testing in 30...
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‘Negotiator’ is Like a High-Stakes Action Flick for VR, Kickstarter Now Live

Negotiator is a first-person strategy-based narrative that action fans will especially resonate with. Like something straight out of Patriot Games (1992) or ... well ... The Negotiator (1998), the game promises to deliver high-stakes missions that test your reasoning and manipulation skills, but more importantly,...
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First Trailer for ‘Final Approach’ for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift Lands

We wrote yesterday how Texas based code-house Phaser Lock Interactive was to debut their new VR airport management title Final Approach at PAX Prime in Seattle from Friday. Well, feast your eyes on the very first trailer to accompany the...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – September #1

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. RGBverse is a constant roller platform arcade with beautiful 3d graphics, non-stop...
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Official ‘Fruit Ninja’ Hits the HTC Vive on Early Access

Fruit Ninja, the popular franchise from Halfbrick Studios, has officially made its way into VR. Now available on Steam Early Access for HTC Vive, Fruit Ninja VR lets you slice and dice with the best of them using dual katana swords that are...

‘Defense Grid 2’ Proves How Compelling Tower Defense in VR Can Be

Jeff Pobst admits that it's probably not a new Rift owner's first thought to go out and buy a tower defense game, but Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition proved to me how compelling a tower defense game can...
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