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How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready

With affordable PC-compatible headsets like Quest 2 and soon even PSVR 2 support, it's easy to jump into PC VR. For the gamers considering purchasing a PC VR headset, one major question marks the starting point on your journey...

Valve Launches SteamVR 2.0, Brings Long-awaited Platform Features into VR

After a period of significant silence about VR from the company, Valve has released SteamVR 2.0, a major upgrade to the platform's VR interface which finally brings more of the platform's core capabilities into VR. Update (October 26th, 2023): After...

Update to SteamVR Suggests Valve is Still Working on a Standalone Headset

Valve is a notorious black box when it comes to basically everything. A recent update to Steam client for VR though suggests the company is still working behind the scenes on what appears to be its long-awaited standalone VR...

Valve Interview Confirms Its VR Ambitions Are Alive and Kicking

If you've been plugged into the Valve leak-o-verse, you've probably come across the name 'Deckard', the supposed code name of a standalone headset allegedly under development by the one and only. While Valve isn't confirming anything about the storied...

Valve: Steam Deck is a “stepping stone” to Standalone VR

Steam Deck, Valve's handheld gaming PC that launched late last month, doesn't really have the horsepower capable of playing SteamVR games, although Valve chief Gabe Newell calls it a "stepping stone" to what could one day be Valve standalone...

Without Valve, ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Wouldn’t be Compatible with Rift or Quest

With the highly anticipated launch of Half-Life: Alyx just days away, it feels like an appropriate time to look at Valve's unique commitment to ensuring that SteamVR remains a hardware-agnostic platform for VR content, and how the company has...

Valve Releases CAD Models for Index VR System, Letting Makers Build to Their Heart’s Content

Valve launched Index, the high-quality PC VR headset, just a few days ago. As an enthusiast-level device, we likened it to a DSLR camera in out full review, setting itself apart from the easier to use, but more consumer-oriented...

Valve’s ‘Aperture Hand Lab’ Index Demo Updated to Support Oculus Touch

Valve released a VR game recently that aims to not only put you through your paces with your brand new Valve Index controllers, but directly in the familiar halls of Portal's Aperture Science labs. If you have an Oculus Rift...

Valve Index Set for June 28th Launch, New Orders Backlogged Until September

If you didn't get a chance to pre-order Valve Index yet, the company's high-end PC VR headset, you may have a fair bit of waiting to do. While the first shipments are set to arrive for the June 28th...

Report: New Valve VR Headset Appears in Leaked Images

When it comes Valve, there's no telling what's going on behind their Bellevue, Washington doors. As one of the most reclusive developers of both games and hardware, that goes doubly so for its efforts in VR. Now, reported images...
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‘Modbox’ Developer Shows Off Knuckles Controllers in Action with SteamVR Skeletal Input

Alien Trap's Lee Vermeulen, one of the developers behind VR creation tool Modbox, received a brand new pair of Knuckles controllers recently. One of his first missions: show off Valve's Skeletal Input system in detail, which was released in beta to developers...

Valve: Monthly Active VR Users on Steam Are Up 160% Year-over-year

Speaking at an industry event last week, Valve offered an update on Steam, the company's massive digital marketplace for PC games, including the continued growth the company has seen in the VR segment over the last year. Speaking at the...

Valve Announces ‘Skeletal Input’ to Give SteamVR Apps More Lifelike Hands Moving Forward

Accompanying the news that Valve has made a critical redesign of its 'Knuckles' motion controller, the company also recently released a new input system in beta that not only aims to create lifelike hands, but make them accessible to...

Apple Adding “plug and play support” for Vive Pro in MacOS Mojave

At Apple's WWDC conference this week, the company announced that the Vive Pro will be fully supported on the newest version of MacOS, 'Mojave', soon to launch in public beta and available widely later this year. Speaking during a session...

Steam Survey: HTC Vive Neck and Neck with Oculus Rift After Repeated Gains

Valve's monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam. After a...
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