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.

$50,000 Up for Grabs in Viveport Developer Awards, Submissions Now Open

Last year marked HTC's very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. Now, submissions for this year's VDAs are open, spanning more categories than last year, including...
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‘Cubism’ Aims to Artfully Tickle Your Brain With Its Solid Dissection Puzzles, Demo Now Available

Cubism is an upcoming VR puzzle game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel that challenges you to think in 3 dimensions. Inspired by puzzles like the Soma cube, or a cube composed of smaller Tetris-like geometric pieces, Cubism tasks...

Harry Potter Universe ‘Fantastic Beasts’ VR Experience Comes to Vive, Oculus & Gear VR

Gallopin’ Gorgons! An updated version of the Harry Potter Universe game for Daydream, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, is arriving today. Not only that, but owners of Vive, Rift and Gear VR will finally be able to get in...
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VR Mech Combat Game ‘Vox Machinae’ is Back with Motion Input, Closed Beta Coming Soon

With VR's strengths for cockpit-based games, you'd think that there would be more quality mech titles available to today's headsets. Alas, a killer VR mech game hasn't reared its head just yet; Vox Machinae, a promising VR mech combat game...

Play ‘Onward’ Tactical Multiplayer Shooter for Free on Rift This Weekend

Onward, the tactical multiplayer shooter for Vive and Rift, is getting another free weekend - this time for Rift players on Oculus Home. The free weekend begins January 25th at 1:00 PM ET and goes until the 29th at 3:00 AM ET (your time here). Check out Onward on...

Race to Find These 20 ‘Sprint Vector’ Closed Beta Keys

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017), announced a closed beta test for Sprint Vector, its multiplayer competitive foot racing game. The closed beta began on January 20th and go through January 28th. Race to find one of 20...

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...

‘VRChat’ Reaches 2 Million Installs, Doubling in the Last Ten Days

VRChat, the social chatroom for VR and non-VR users, is doing booming business. According to SteamSpy, the app has seen a mind-boggling 1 million fresh installs in only the last 10 days, putting it currently at 2 million installs in total. Update (01/19/18): SteamSpy reports...

Update: Official ‘Jumanji’ VR Experience Appears on Steam

Jumanji: The VR Adventure is an official VR experience created by Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and MWM Immersive (formerly Reality One). Initially shown at VRX Networks kiosks across the US and UK in tandem with the release of the 2017 franchise reboot film starring...

WEARVR Launches $10,000 Competition to Bring New Life to Dev Kit-era Apps

As Oculus has pushed out iterative runtimes to support its consumer hardware, many of the beloved early VR experiments have fallen to the wayside, languishing without support and lost in the annals of defunct software. To remedy this, WEARVR, an independent...
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‘Primordian’ is a Sci-fi Melee Brawler With Serious Style, Early Access Coming This Week

Boasting a smashing, shooting, alien skull-splitting adventure, Stonepunk Studios aims to transport you billions of years into the past to the very first planet near the center of the universe in their upcoming single-player adventure brawler Primordian. Visually, Primordian seems to be drawing on a really...
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Mind-bending Adventure ‘Anamorphine’ Delayed Until Late Q1

Virtual reality is unique in its ability to allow you to immersively explore the interior of the imagination, including the darker sides of the psyche, the parts that we fear to confront, but inevitably wish to excise from the...
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‘Elite Dangerous’ to See Overhaul in ‘Beyond’ Update, Open Beta Begins January 25th

Frontier Developments today announced an open beta test for the upcoming update to the third season of Elite Dangerous (2014), the open-universe space simulator for VR and non-VR players. Called 'Beyond - Chapter One', the update will officially arrive sometime in Q1 2018...

Hands-on: Vive Wireless Adapter Debuts With Robust Connection but Latency Too

Revealed this week at CES 2018, HTC has announced their own Vive Wireless Adapter which promises to break the tether on the Vive and Vive Pro. We went hands-on to see how it handles. One year after announcing their intent...

SteamVR Beta Adds Support for Oculus Dash

Oculus Rift users playing games on SteamVR will soon be able to more fluidly access Oculus Dash, part of the Rift Core 2.0 update which gives users an overlay menu allowing them to access social features, browse their desktop,...
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