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.
Toyota’s New Experimental Humanoid Robot Uses HTC Vive for Remote Operation
Toyota recently revealed T-HR3, the company’s third-generation humanoid robot. Designed primarily as an experiment to explore new technologies to make robots more physically capable, T-HR3 demonstrates a new "remote maneuvering system" that not only mirrors a user's movements to...
HTC Announces New First-Party Titles, ‘Front Defense: Heroes’ & ‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’
HTC’s internal development and publishing arm Vive Studios has announced two new games coming to Vive in early December. Physics puzzler Super Puzzle Galaxy from 2 Bears Studio and multiplayer WWII shooter Front Defense: Heroes from Fantahorn Studio will...
HTC’s Black Friday Sale Gets You a Free Audio Strap with Vive Purchase, Free ‘Fallout 4...
HTC recently announced they'll be sweetening the pot this Black Friday for potential Vive-owners located in North America by throwing a free Deluxe Audio Strap your way when you purchase an HTC Vive. The deal also includes the previous...
‘Payday 2’ VR Beta Now Available, Supporting Cross-play with Desktop Players
Payday 2 (2013), the popular FPS with four-player co-op, has now updated to include access to the VR beta for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The beta is free, and will see updates in discrete phases, the first of which is now...
‘Sparc’ Comes to Vive & Rift with Cross-play Support for PSVR
Despite the news that CCP Games is shelving VR for the time being, the company promises that their last title Sparc will not only go on, but CCP is carrying through with plans to launch the game on both the Oculus...
Universal VR Web Dashboard, ‘V’, Gets Support for Vive & SteamVR Headsets
The uni-lettered V is a web-based dashboard that runs inside of the VR apps you know and love, allowing you to access web apps like Netflix, Spotify, Slack, and do pretty much anything else you can do through a...
Capcom Cup to Host VR Version of Iconic ‘Street Fighter II’ Bonus Stage
The Street Fighter franchise isn't actually in VR yet—not unless you count playing the retro ROMS in New Retro Arcade—but the attendees at this year's Capcom Cup at Red Bull Battle Grounds in Boston will get a chance to relive the iconic car-smashing...
HTC Announces Consumer Availability of Vive Tracker & New Tracker Accessory Bundles
HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve's Lighthouse tracking standard. The company also announced North American pre-order availability of a number of Vive Tracker accessory bundles that are slated to make their way to consumers in mid-December.
First...
Windows VR Headsets Can Now Play VR Games on Steam
Early adopters of "Windows Mixed Reality" VR headsets can now access a wealth of new content thanks to an official integration with Steam, now available as a public preview, allowing the headsets to play SteamVR content from the platform....
‘The Exorcist: Legion VR’ First Episodes to Launch on Rift & Vive November 22nd
The scariest time of the year has come and gone, and although we were expecting the first two episodes of The Exorcist: Legion VR in time for Halloween, fans of the film franchise and The Exorcist TV series probably won't mind one bit. Created by Fun...
‘Alvo’ Wants to Be ‘CS:GO’ for VR, Launching with Cross-play for PSVR, Rift & Vive in...
Indie studio Mardonpol, makers of Quiz Night Tonight! (2017), is dialing in on CS:GO territory with its recently released trailer which shows all of the trappings of the popular PC shooter, replete with Italy-inspired map, AWPs, and bomb planting galore. The...
‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ Launches on Steam Today for HTC Vive After Minor Delay
Killing Floor: Incursion (2017), Tripwire Interactive's latest entry into the zombie-splattering co-op shooter genre, was supposed to arrive on SteamVR-compatible headsets last week. It's available on Steam starting today for $40.
Update (11/14/17): Even though it launches today, it appears the...
HTC Lists Sports Racket Accessory for Vive Tracker, Suggesting Tracker Launch is Near
A 'Racket Sports Set' designed to be compatible with HTC Vive's Tracker, the modular positionally-tracked puck that you can use to track practically anything in VR, has just made an appearance on the Vive accessories site. The Tracker has only been available for...
Hands-On: ‘Star Shelter’ – Survival in Zero Gravity
Stranded in space with just an AI voice and your broken ship for company, you must scavenge for materials to survive, searching random debris floating nearby using motion-based, zero-gravity locomotion. Needing some polish but highly playable in its current...
Windows VR Headsets Can Play Oculus Exclusive Games via Revive
The announcement that Steam will support the forthcoming Windows VR headsets was big news which means that owners will eventually have a strong library of VR content to draw from while Microsoft builds up its own library of VR games...

















