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Valve Boss Gabe Newell: ‘For the last year I’ve spent most of my time with...
At the opening ceremony of Valve’s DOTA 2 tournament, Valve head Gabe Newell explained that he’s been focusing much of his attention on the company’s VR initiatives. See Also: Inside the ‘DOTA 2 VR...
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Send HTC Your Idea for a Vive Accessory and Win a Free HTC Vive
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...
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Valve Teases New VR Prototypes at Steam Dev Days
Steam Dev Days, Valve’s annual developer conference, just started and from the tweets we’ve seen (no press allowed!) VR is getting the star treatment this year already. According to press release sent...
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‘Trackmania Turbo’ Receives Free VR Update for PlayStation VR, Rift and Vive
Ubisoft today rolled out free VR support for Trackmania Turbo, the latest installment in the online multiplayer arcade racer series. The update is now available for owners of the game on PlayStation...
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Valve’s Gabe Newell Expects PC VR Headsets to Have Integrated Wireless in 2018
Valve chief Gabe Newell is optimistic about the future of VR, considering the studio is in development of three VR titles—not mini-games or experiences, but “full” VR games—but what about the future of...
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Valve’s ‘Steam Direct’ to Replace Controversial ‘Greenlight’ Voting System
Steam Direct, a new sign-up system for launching games on the store, is due to replace Greenlight in Spring 2017. Currently, any developer or publisher new to Steam is required to submit their game for...
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AMD GPUs to Support Asynchronous Reprojection via SteamVR
Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops...
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SteamVR Home Gets Major Customisation Improvements, New Boxing Mini-game
The SteamVR Home Beta, the platform’s social VR hub system, recently received a significant upgrade, adding several improved customisation options, including ‘Trophies’ and the ability to decorate your...
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Update: Steam Support for Windows VR Headsets to Arrive Before End of Year
Microsoft’s Windows VR headsets (branded as ‘Mixed Reality’) are nearly ready to ship, coming alongside the launch of Windows Fall Creators Update in mid-October. Announced today at Microsoft’s Windows...
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Hands-On: ‘Overturn’ is a Serviceable Fast-paced VR Shooter But Missing a...
Described as an “action-puzzle adventure game”, Overturn’s puzzle elements play a secondary role; the game weighs heavily on fast, first-person action, combining projectile weapons and frantic melee...
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HTC Launches $300 SteamVR 1.0 Tracking Bundle for Vive Pro Users
HTC today announced they’re launching a hardware accessory bundle for $300 that will include all necessary bits for new Vive Pro customers starting from scratch (besides the headset, that is). The...
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Valve Brings Custom Keybinding to SteamVR, Letting VR Apps Support All...
SteamVR includes de facto support for several VR devices, although sometimes games just don’t support a particular controller—or if they do, it may not be configured properly. To remedy this, Valve has...
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Windows VR Headsets Seeing Slow But Steady Adoption on Steam
The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn’t revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows “Mixed...
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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...
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Valve Laid Off Contractors and 13 Employees, Some Working on VR
Valve today confirmed that the company laid off 13 full-time employees and an unspecified number of contractors. The layoffs are believed to have largely impacted the company’s VR hardware group....
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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...
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Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3...
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...
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Valve to Release ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ SteamVR Environments You Can Explore with...
Half-Life: Alyx is now less than three weeks away from launch, and to further stoke the inevitable hype surrounding the game’s impending release on March 23rd, Valve is releasing some new SteamVR Home...
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The 10 Best SteamVR Games to Play in 2020
Thanks to Steam’s hardware agnostic approach, it’s become the defacto repository of all things PC VR (excluding Oculus exclusives, of course). Every major PC VR headset is supported through the SteamVR...
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Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.7...
The latest Steam Survey data became available this week, showing a record number of headsets in use on the platform as well as a surprising shift in the popularity of specific headsets. That’s based on...
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