SteamVR
Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3 Million
Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...
SteamVR Update Streamlines Interface for Ease-of-use Ahead of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
An update to SteamVR has brought a slew of interface changes which aim to improve ease-of-use and address the software's dense array of settings.
Update (December 17th, 2019): Valve today pushed the SteamVR 1.9.13 update out of beta and into...
SteamVR Update Brings Major Improvements to Irksome Audio Issues
An update released today for SteamVR brings major improvements to one of the most frustrating parts of the platform: audio not always going to your headset on the first try.
Update (November 5th, 2019): Previously available in beta, SteamVR 1.8.19...
Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 1 Million Milestone
Valve's monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...
SteamVR Update Brings Motion Smoothing to Modern AMD Graphics Cards
Valve this week released an update to SteamVR which finally brings Motion Smoothing to AMD graphics cards, a feature which aims to maintain comfortable visuals even during performance bumps. SteamVR Motion Smoothing launched first for NVIDIA graphics cards in...
Analysis: Monthly Connected VR Headsets on Steam Have Grown Exponentially
Valve's monthly Steam Survey has long offered some useful insight into which headsets are actively connected to users computers and the share of the Steam population that's using each, but the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam...
The Steam Winter Sale is Here, Discounts on Bethesda VR & More Top VR Games
If you're expecting a stocking full of Steam Gift Cards this year, Valve has a nifty solution of relieving you of most, if not all of your Steam funbucks. Starting today and going until January 3rd, Steam's annual Winter...
AMD’s SteamVR Streaming Tool ‘ReLive for VR’ Won’t Support Oculus Mobile Devices
AMD recently launched an updated version of their Radeon Software suite which brought the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, provided you own a supported AMD GPU. Now the company has put future support for...
Impressive Valve-built Environment ‘Winter Peak’ Comes to SteamVR Home
It's hard to get tired of Valve's SteamVR Home when the company keeps pumping out high-quality spaces like Gulping Goat and Candy Emporium as of late. Now on Steam Workshop, the company's open marketplace for environmental additions and asset packs, Valve...
To the ‘VR is Dying’ Crowd: There’s More VR Users on Steam Than Ever Before
A Road to VR analysis of the latest data from Valve's Steam Hardware & Software shows that VR users on Steam have not only been growing, but are at their highest point in history.
First generation VR hardware may not yet...
SteamVR Update Brings Motion Smoothing, Easier Keybinding & More
Valve has released the 1.1.3 update to the SteamVR SDK, and along with it comes a host of long-awaited improvements such as Motion Smoothing, easier access to Valve's custom controller keybinding utility, and a few more bits and bobs...
New Valve Data Gives Fresh Insight into Number of VR Headsets Used on Steam
During Melbourne Games Week this week, Valve revealed a fresh set of official figures about it's user population on Steam. Mashing up the figures with Valve's monthly Steam Survey data gives us fresh insight into the number of VR...
SteamVR Gets Motion Smoothing, an ASW-like Feature to Help VR Apps Run Better
Valve today introduced Motion Smoothing to SteamVR in beta. Similar to Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW), the feature uses previous frames to synthesize new frames on the fly, allowing VR applications to continue to run smoothly and comfortably even when...
Rift and Windows VR Squeeze Marketshare from Vive in Latest Steam Survey
In the latest set of data from Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets posted gains in marketshare at the expense of the HTC Vive.
Each month, Valve runs a survey among Steam users to...
Update: This Homebrewed Mini 3D-Tracked Sensor Module Only Cost $3 in Parts
Dr. Masahiko Inami, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, recently tweeted a picture of an incredibly small, homebrewed 3D-tracked sensor module that has us reeling at the implications for ever-smaller tracked...
