Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. As an active supporter of VR and head of one of gaming's most important VR-compatible game engines, when Sweeney speaks, we tend...

Ilium VR are working on a new VR-centric gun peripheral which plans to use Valve's SteamVR 'Lighthouse' tracking to bring realistic weapon control to virtual reality games. Shooting things in games is cool. Shooting things in VR can be infinitely cooler....

NThe latest update to SteamVR adds asynchronous reprojection for Nvidia GPUs. Similar to Oculus’ asynchronous timewarp, it mitigates unwanted ‘judder’ when the hardware fails to maintain 90fps. Available via the SteamVR Beta since October 25th, asynchronous reprojection is a much-awaited...

Valve is planning to introduce beta versions of its SteamVR platform for Mac OSX and Linux users within a few months. One thing's for sure, if you're a PC user wanting to indulge in a spot of immersive entertainment right...

Valve has announced a new 'Site Licensing' model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on SteamVR powering a renaissance in VR-enabled Cybercafés. Lets...

Valve opened up their SteamVR tracking technology for third-party development in August, and since then, 50 developers have completed the mandatory training course provided by Synapse, the first company to enter the field. Synapse says that most of the participants...

Valve premiered a prototype of a new type of VR input controller at Steam Dev Days in order to get some preliminary feedback from developers. They've created a capacitive-touch controller that is attached to your hand so that you...

The Vive's Lighthouse tracking system is an impressive piece of tech, considering it boasts sub-millimeter, 3D room-scale positional tracking for a VR headset and hand controllers using lasers. But haven't you ever wished the Vive controllers could be used for more...

Focusing on cross-headset support, Valve aims to make Steam the go-to place for virtual reality content distribution. Now touting more than 600 VR titles, the platform's VR apps are steadily rising through the ranks of the entire Steam library. Among Steam's...

Steam has launched the first VR Weekend Sale giving steep discounts on VR titles for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, including a huge 20-game bundle at 30% discount. Looking to bolster your VR game library? Vive and Rift owners...

Starting today OSVR is taking pre-orders for the HDK 2, the modular, open source ‘Hacker Development Kit’ VR headset which the organization says will ship starting on July 29th. Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same...

Valve's 'Lighthouse' tracking system affords the HTC Vive a 'room-scale' tracking space for the VR headset and its controllers through the use of area-sweeping lasers. But exactly how accurate is it? Oliver Kreylos, a VR researcher at UC Davis,...

Nvidia's VR Funhouse is a virtual sandbox chasing reality, one designed to demonstrate how GPU accelerated physics can enhance presence in immersive environments. It's released for free today on Steam, but is it any fun? Perhaps it’s just my over...

This is SoundStage, from solo developer Logan Olson, a VR application that aims to let musicians build their own dream music studio, allowing them to play, record and mix from within VR on the HTC Vive. Being a musician can...

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive install base is approaching the 100,000 mark. Having launched just about three months ago on April 5th, the HTC...