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Valve Adds Support for Latest Oculus Rift SDK in SteamVR Update

Amidst ongoing development of Valve's SteamVR platform, a recent update has brought support for the latest version of the Oculus Rift SDK and Runtime. Apparently in an effort to ensure continued support for the Oculus Rift through SteamVR, a November...
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6 Game Industry Artists Let Loose in HTC Vive ‘Tilt Brush’ Competition

NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming...

Valve Dials Back Vive Release Expectations, Suggests Bulk Will Ship in Q1 2016

Having revealed SteamVR and the Vive VR headset just six months ago, Valve and HTC set an aggressive consumer release date of Q4 2015. This would make the companies first-to-market over major competitors. Now, however, Valve is dialing back...

HTC Vive Nominated for ‘Best Hardware’ in Gamescom 2015 Awards

Virtual reality hardware has set something of a trend at trade show awards over the last few years. Oculus in particular have traditionally cleaned up in the 'best hardware' category at shows like CES for example. Now it seems...
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HTC Vive World Tour Makes 6 Stops in August, Your Chance to Try ‘Room Scale’ SteamVR

Want to step inside the HTC Vive and SteamVR? HTC continues their 'Vive World Tour', hauling the headset around the US and beyond to give folks a chance to try out the new headset. The tour makes five stops...

GameFace Mobile VR Headset Will Also Tether to PCs Through Valve’s OpenVR

GameFace Labs showed off their latest prototype mobile VR headset at E3 last week, a device that promises to deliver both a standalone Android-based mobile VR experience and a tethered PC experience in the same headset. GameFace calls their prototype headset a head...

Microsoft and Valve Announce VR for Windows 10 Relationship

E3 is underway here in LA and at Microsoft's press conference the software giant have announced that they're working closely with Valve on virtual reality for the Windows 10 platform. Just last week at Oculus' pre-E3 press event, Microsoft joined...

Valve’s Lighthouse Room-Scale Tracking Illustrated IRL

SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve's 15x15 feet 'room scale' tracking looks like when applied in reality. Valve and HTC's Vive virtual...

HTC Vive Setup Guide Reveals IPD, Eye-relief Adjustments, and More

With deliveries of the HTC Vive Developer Edition now arriving, Valve has released the 'Setup guide pamphlet' that's included in the box. Filled with classic subtle humor from Valve, the pamphlet also confirms IPD and eye-relief adjustments on the HTC Vive...

HTC: ‘Vive Developer Edition Will Not Be Sold Before Consumer Launch’

A report published last month in Fortune seemed to indicate that HTC would make the SteamVR / Vive Developer Edition system available for sale prior to the forthcoming launch of the consumer version of the headset. Speaking with Road...

Steam VR Image Leak May Indicate Software Line-up for HTC Vive VR Headset

Steam VR and Valve's accompanying VR hardware, the HTC Vive, is on its way and with release windows already confirmed, the question is what content will be available for early adopters of the virtual reality platform? These images, found...

HTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with Rift DK2

Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve's highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that even developers who don't have...

Valve’s Joe Ludwig to Talk ‘OpenVR’ and ‘Lighthouse’ Hardware Partners at SVVR Expo

Valve Software Programmer Joe Ludwig, aka one of the brains behind Team Fortress 2's 'VR mode' and SteamVR, will be giving a talk at this year's SVVR Expo on the company's SteamVR APIs, otherwise known as OpenVR. The 20 minute talk,...

HTC Vive Support and “New Morpheus Features” Coming to Unreal Engine 4

According to Epic's Unreal Engine roadmap, the company is soon to add support for Valve's SteamVR / HTC Vive platform as well as new features for Sony's Morpheus VR headset. With strong existing support for both the Oculus Rift and...

HTC Vive Developer Edition Signups Now Open, Free for Selected Devs but Not for Sale

Apparently on their way to making good on the promise of the HTC Vive Developer Edition being available this Spring, Valve has opened the developer signup form for interested parties to throw their name into the hat. Valve will be...
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