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.

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 Gets Big Black Friday Discount

One of the finest virtual reality experiences around has just got a whole lot cheaper as Frontier Developments joins the holiday sale madness and slashes the price of it's space epic Elite:Dangerous by 67% to just £9.99 ($15). The seasonal...

Elite:Dangerous Horizons 1.5 Beta Brings HTC Vive Support

Elite:Dangerous is evolving and the first in a series of expansions, named Horizons, will be available on November 30th - bringing with it a host of new features. One exciting addition is the first inclusion of official HTC Vive...
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons is Out Now, New Trailer Unveiled

Elite: Dangerous evolves today as the virtual reality supporting space epic gets its first expansion pack Horizons, which brings planetary landings at the start of Frontier's 'Season Two' of expansion packs which will extend into next year. Oh yeah,...

Technolust’s ‘Cloudstep’ VR Locomotion and Overcoming the Uncanny Valley by Coding Social Behaviors

Blair Renaud is the creator of Technolust, and he talks about his strategy for creating different experiences out of the Technolust universe for the Vive, Playstation VR, Oculus Rift, and Gear VR. Technolust has been one of the early...

Candid Reactions to the Oculus Toybox Demo and Social Presence

The Oculus Touch Toybox demo was shown to the most number of people in one day at Oculus Connect 2 on September 23rd. This was the first time that a lot of developers were able to get their hands...
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Design Your Dream Kitchen with the HTC Vive (video)

A result of the AEC Hackathon, Helsinki - this neat prototype application lets you don the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, pick up the SteamVR controllers and sculpt your own designer kitchen. A simple but neat user interface lets...
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Hands On: ‘The Assembly’ Offers New ‘Comfort Mode’, a Multi-Pronged Attack on Sim-Sickness

nDreams, a UK based games studio producing upcoming VR title The Assembly, are declaring war on the discomfort commonly associated with first-person VR games. We sat down with Senior Designer Jackie Tetley and Communications Manager George Kelion at Gamescom 2015...

News Bits: Cyber Space VR Theme Park Ride Simulator Now Lets You Eject, World Scale Fixed

We reported on RiftAway's venture into white knuckle fantasy ride simulator Cyber Space a little while ago and mused on it's potential status as the ultimate in testing your VR Legs. Now, RiftAway has released a new version of the...
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New ADR1FT Gameplay is Beautiful and Exhausting

Developer Three One Zero is bringing 'Astronaut in peril' adventure title ADR1FT to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Sony PlayStation VR next year. Here's some new gameplay courtesy of GamesHQMedia that raises the question: Are you mentally strong enough to...
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Watch the Story of ADR1FT as Told by its Creator in Live Q&A

Adam Orth, one of the founders of studio Three One Zero, will present the story of how 'astronaut in peril' virtual reality title ADR1FT game, came to be. The presentation, which will include a 'screening' of the title and a...

HTC Vive Pre Arrives With Developers, Twitter Rejoices

HTC's second iteration of their SteamVR hardware, the Vive Pre, was unveiled last month at CES with a number of ergonomic and technical enhancements. Well it looks like developers worldwide are taking to twitter to rejoice the receipt of...

Combining Interactive Exploration & Sports with ‘#SelfieTennis’

VR Unicorns is a Copenhagen-based development collective that developed #SelfieTennis. They were working on Julie Heyde's RagnarökVR until they stated experimenting with room-scale sports experiences. Playing tennis against yourself in VR was the first mechanic that found was really compelling...
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First Look: Vive Chief Content Officer Phil Chen on VR’s Role in the Evolution of Storytelling

Virtual reality pushes the capabilities of computers like no other current technology; putting a 3D world in front of you and making it interactive requires a lot of power. But the payoff? A new medium that directly engages with...
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New Elite Dangerous: Horizons Trailer ‘Lands’

Frontier Developments just announced a new expansion series called 'Horizons' bringing with it planetary exploration and a new loot system. Here's a new teaser trailer to whet your appetite ahead of the expansion's first instalment's release - set for Christmas...

Big ‘Sightline: The Chair’ Update Brings Oculus SDK v0.7 and Unity 5 Upgrades

Sightline: The Chair is a virtual reality demo designed as a sort of showcase for the technology and one we're a big fan of. Now, developer Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík of has released the latest iteration and it's packed with technical...
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