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.

How to Play ‘No Man’s Sky’ in VR (Warning: Strong Stomach Required)

This is how to get No Man's Sky running on your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset using the VR injection driver VorpX. Be warned though, you'll need to have an iron constitution before setting out. No Man's Sky is a game...

How to Configure VorpX to Play GTA V on the Oculus Rift

PC Game launches don't come much bigger than Grand Theft Auto, and GTA V's launch just last week has been no exception. Similarly, VorpX's rapid addition of GTA V support to allow players to experience the game on the...

Closeup: Next-generation SteamVR Tracking Base Station is “Better in every way”

As evidenced by the decision to begin selling SteamVR Tracking base stations directly later this year, Valve aims to continue driving development of the technology. A look at the latest engineering sample of the next-generation base station model shows...

Hack Makes ‘Google Earth VR’ Compatible With Rift and Touch

Google Earth VR was launched this week to great excitement, except to Rift users who found out that the game wouldn't work with their headset. Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the...

First Ever Steam Awards Finalists Include Two VR-enabled Games

Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. The winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve after a period of public voting. Introduced during the...

Hands-on: ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Groundrush Update Drops Daring Dogfights to Dangerous Altitudes

Fanfest is upon us again, CCP's yearly festival in Reykjavik for all things EVE Online, but to go along with the round table discussions and announcements surrounding the massive multiplayer universe is a new update to the studio's sci-fi VR arcade dogfighter...

Latest ‘Revive’ Update Lets You Play 35 Oculus Home Games on HTC Vive

Revive, the mod which lets HTC Vive owners play games released only on Oculus Home, has just got a new release and is now compatible with 35 titles in the Oculus Store. Revive, a free mod project created by LibreVR in...

HTC Launches Vive App on iOS to Keep You Connected While in VR

It's been known since early 2016 that HTC planned to integrate bluetooth into the Vive headset to allow your phone to talk to the headset while you're in VR, but we didn't know what platforms or specific functionality would...

Bethesda Head Affirms Ongoing Work on ‘Fallout 4 VR’, Calls it “Pretty Incredible”

Bethesda Game Studios made the surprise announcement at E3 last year that the company would be porting the entirety of Fallout 4 to virtual reality, and confirmed it would be released for both the HTC Vive and in VR on...
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‘Doom’ & ‘Fallout 4’ Devs are Collaborating to Make Titles Work in VR

Doom VR Executive Producer Marty Stratton sheds light on Doom VR, how Bethesda are approaching the project, what VR hardware they're targeting and whether it'll ever see a full release. After thrusting a glimpse of a modern VR technology into the public...

‘Eagle Flight’ Review

After years of previews and teasers, Ubisoft make their long anticipated VR debut on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.  Eagle Flight has all the hallmarks of being a toe in the water for Ubisoft, but the VR world may...
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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. The popular forms of...
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Guinness Record Set With 25 Continuous Hours in Virtual Reality

Guinness World Records, an organisation journalling the extraordinary (and often insane) stunts people will pull for notoriety, and now the book has its first virtual reality entry. Watch as Derek Westerman swaps reality for Tilt Brush inside the HTC...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Steam VR’s Lighthouse Tracking System

Lighthouse is Valve's laser-based tracking system that forms the bedrock of Steam VR's input system. Alan Yates, Hardware Engineer at Valve was a key player in the system's design and implementation. Alan, frustrated with being asked the same questions...

‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Gets 33% Price Cut Across All Headsets

EVE: Valkyrie (2016), one of the first games to launch on the Oculus Rift (and eventually found its way to PSVR and the HTC Vive), is getting a big price cut. Eve: Valkyrie is a sci-fi spaceship dogfighting game that...
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