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.
VR Photogrammetry Showcase ‘Realities’ is Getting Three New Scenes
Realities is a VR photogrammetry showcase featuring detailed photogramatic scans from a handful of interesting locations around the world. In collaboration with Canadian television channel TV5's documentary series Terre d’Exploration, the first of three new scenes from the Canadian wilderness is...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Modding Tools Still in the Works But No Release Date Yet
At the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx last year, Valve promised it would release Source 2 tools which would allow the community to extend the game's content and functionality. Now, two weeks after the launch of the game, Valve says it's presently...
‘Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons’ Reveals First Look at Gameplay, Coming to VR & Flatscreen in...
Resolution Games today showed off its first gameplay clip of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons-themed version of Demeo (2021), the hit VR-supported tabletop action RPG.
Initially announced in January, Resolution Games and Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast have finally showed...
Preview: ‘Twilight Path’, From Creators of ‘FORM’, Invites You to a Mystical Realm
Launched in 2017, FORM is a narrative puzzle game from Charm Games that's become something of a hidden gem in the VR gaming space—lesser known, but well liked, with a strong critical reception and positive reviews from players on...
‘The Room: A Dark Matter’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets in Late March, Trailer Here
Fireproof Games, the studio behind popular puzzle title The Room (2014), today announced its first VR entry into the franchise—The Room: A Dark Matter—is slated to arrive next month on PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest, and PSVR.
Fireproof says in a tweet...
SteamVR Dashboard Update Adds Individual Window Focus & Controller Docking
The latest beta update to SteamVR has brought improvements to the way users can use their PC desktop inside of VR through the SteamVR dashboard. Now you can choose to display specific applications instead of your entire desktop, and...
Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus
Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from.
Showdown was created...
‘Zero Caliber VR’ Studio Announces 4-Player Co-op Shooter ‘Gambit!’, Coming 2021
XREAL Games, the studio behind co-op VR shooter Zero Caliber VR (2018), and 2ndGig announced a new co-op shooter headed to PC VR headsets in 2021. Called Gambit!, the upcoming game tosses four players into what the creators call...
VR Games Showcase Returns in March, Teasing “biggest line-up yet” of XR Games
Another edition of VR Games Showcase is headed our way in March, which the organizers calling the event the "biggest line-up yet" of XR games.
Details are still thin at the moment, most notably of which is the online event's...
Oculus Fixes a Few Serious Annoyances With Its Latest Update to Rift Core 2.0 Beta
Already in the wild for over a month now, Rift Core 2.0 Beta has seen its first substantial update since launch. The January update addresses performance and general ease-of-use of Home and Dash, but more importantly provides solutions to some rather niggling issues.
Considered a major overhaul...
‘Telepath’ Movement System Could be a Great Fit for Quest Controllerless Hand-tracking
Controller-less hand-tracking (like what's currently available as an experimental feature on Quest) has a handful of advantages over using controllers, like convenience and intuitiveness. However, common VR game actions like shooting and moving are difficult to do with hand-gestures...
‘Sprint Vector’ Closed Beta Shows New Modes & Mechanics, Impressive Polish
Sprint Vector, the upcoming VR footracing game from Raw Data (2017) studio Survios, went into closed beta last week. Now with a few multiplayer matches under my belt and a number of solo challenges (and possibly some overextended elbows), it's clear the...
‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’ is Released for HTC Vive 18 July
Just announced at a Star Wars "Meet ILMxLab" panel at the Star Wars Celebration expo in London, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine will be released for the HTC Vive on Steam for free on Monday 18 July.
One of the highlight...
‘Transference’ Review: A Thrilling Film-like Adventure for the Digital Age
Transference (2018) is a single-player psychological thriller that takes place in a shadowy reflection of reality—the simulation of a family's collective minds who've presumably been corrupted after the father, a scientist, tests his breakthrough procedure on himself, his wife, and...
‘DiRT Rally’ VR Racer Currently 75% Off, Sale Ends Next Week
DiRT Rally (2015) started out as an exemplar of a PC rally racer, but after adding Oculus Rift support last year, the game has since become a hit in the VR community for its varied tracks, cars and true-to-life driving...



















