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.

Viveport to Give Developers 100% of Revenue Earned Over The Holidays

At this year's Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), HTC announced a number of changes to Viveport to celebrate the one year anniversary of the app store and its subscription service. Developers will receive a 100% revenue share between October...

2013-era Crowdfunded VR Puzzle-Adventure ‘XING: The Land Beyond’ Finally Launches Today

XING: The Land Beyond (2017), a puzzle-adventure from White Lotus Interactive, is set to ship today—a good 4 years after they initially launched their Kickstarter and successfully stretch-goaled their way to include Oculus Rift support. Of course, back then the team was targeting the...

HTC Partners to Stream VR Games to Vive in China, Cutting VR-Ready PCs Out of the...

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. While graphically-capable PCs are cheaper than ever thanks to new GPUs and software optimizations,...

Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’

The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...

‘Driver4VR’ Emulates Vive Trackers With Kinect for Cheap VR Body Tracking

A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion tracking in VR. The driver, available at the official...

Crytek Adds HTC Vive & Oculus Touch Support to ‘Robinson: The Journey’

Originally launched in November last year as a PSVR exclusive, Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey (2016) made its way early this year to Oculus Rift via Oculus Home and also eventually Steam too. Critically missing however was official support for HTC Vive and any support for motion controllers. Now,...

Review: ‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’

The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) is a first-person adventure from Cloudhead Games that's unashamedly a 'first' in many categories. As a Vive launch title, it was one of the most cutting-edge adventure games of its time, and although it's showing...

Multiuser VR Sculpting & Paint Tool ‘MasterpieceVR’ Now Available on Vive & Rift

MasterpieceVR is a 3D creation tool that's looking to get an edge on the competition by offering something no other volumetric art program has so far; a multi-user, spectator-friendly, sculpting and painting tool that promises to house everything you need in...

‘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...

HTC Registers ‘Vive Focus’ Trademark in EU & US, Likely Intended for Standalone VR Headset

HTC has submitted a new trademark application in both Europe and the US, specifically requesting the use of a new name: Vive Focus. First revealed at Google I/O 2017 developer conference, both HTC and Lenovo announced they were building standalone VR...

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...

‘Onward’ Mil-Sim Shooter is Hosting a Free Weekend Starting Thursday

Onward, the mil-sim tactical multiplayer shooter, has garnered a hardcore playerbase since it released on Steam Early Access a year ago, and if you want to know what all the hubbub is about surrounding what many are hailing as the end-all VR...

Google ‘Tilt Brush’ Now Lets You Easily Import Objects From ‘Blocks’ 3D Modeling App

Google has pushed an update to its VR paint program Tilt Brush (2016) that finally lets you intuitively drag your 3D creations in from Blocks (2017), the company's latest 3D modeling app for VR. Before the new Tilt Brush update, importing a model...

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...
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Pimax Teases ‘Next Generation’ Accessories for Its 8K VR Headset

Pimax, the Chinese VR headset manufacturer, released a teaser video showing a number of high-tech accessories that clip onto the company's upcoming 8K VR headset—a headset that boasts a staggering 200 degree field of view (FOV) at 3840x2160 per eye resolution via...
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