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.
Valve Index Teardown Glimpses Screen Diffuser and Dual-element Optics
An excellent Valve Index teardown gives a look at the headset's complex inner-workings. Along with getting a clear look at the headset's dual-element lenses, the teardown also reveals a screen diffuser.
Valve touted a holistic design approach for its Index headset,...
‘Budget Cuts’ Review – Killer Robots Meet Killer VR Game Mechanics
Budget Cuts, a first-person stealth VR game, has been eagerly awaited since Stockholm-based indie studio Neat Corporation first released a free demo in 2016. The demo, which quickly became a breakout success in the early days of consumer VR, demonstrated...
SteamVR Update Adds Clarity-boosting Field-of-view Option and World Scale Adjustment
In recent months SteamVR has been seeing updates with new features for power users. Following improved virtual window management with controller docking, the latest beta update has added a clarity-boosting field-of-view option and the ability to adjust the scale...
Review: ‘ProjectM: Daydream’
ProjectM: Daydream is a VR dating experience from Korean studio EVR Studio. While it's fairly short and only offers subtitles in a number of major languages to go along with the Korean audio, the experience of sitting across from a...
‘Virtua Sonic’ Fan Experience Brings Sonic the Hedgehog to VR
Want to step into the iconic red boots of Sonic the Hedgehog? This fan-built VR experience will let you do just that, and with some serious attention to detail that Sonic fans are sure to appreciate.
Coming to the annual...
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...
Become an Avatar-style Earthbender in ‘RUMBLE’, Early Access Coming Soon
While there aren't any official Avatar: The Last Airbender VR games out there, RUMBLE definitely wants to fill in the gaps with its Earthbending fighting game where, like the series' telekinetic martial artists, you control the very ground beneath your feet.
Headed into Steam...
Exclusive: HP’s Next-gen VR Headset Aims to Raise the Bar on Clarity & Comfort
Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that...
‘EA Sports WRC’ Gets PC VR Support Next Week Following Season 4 Launch
Codemasters, the EA studio behind the DiRT Rally franchise, announced that its off-road racing game EA Sports WRC is set to include VR support for its PC version next week.
Update (April 26th, 2024): Codemasters announced that its planned VR mode is coming...
‘Boneworks’ Review – A Rich Sandbox with a Side of Game Design
Boneworks, the highly anticipated physics-driven VR shooter from veteran VR studio Stress Level Zero, is finally here. The game is underscored with a rich, physics-based interaction system which aims to make VR more interactive and immersive.
Boneworks Details:
Developer: Stress Level Zero
Available On: Steam...
The 10 Best SteamVR Games to Play in 2020
Thanks to Steam's hardware agnostic approach, it's become the defacto repository of all things PC VR (excluding Oculus exclusives, of course). Every major PC VR headset is supported through the SteamVR platform, including Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index,...
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...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Update Adds New Weapon & Example Content for Workshop Modding
Half-Life: Alyx has been updated to version 1.4.1 which adds an example weapon to the game's Workshop modding tools, allowing modders to experiment with bringing new weapons to the game. The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools,...
Google’s Massive Street View Library Now Available in ‘Google Earth VR’
Today Google has launched an update to Google Earth VR which brings the company's huge library of street-level imagery into the application which lets users immersively explore the entire globe.
Google Earth VR is a stunning VR experience which we...
Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3 Million
Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...


















