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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 15×15 feet ‘room scale’ tracking looks like...
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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...
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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...
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HTC Vive World Tour Makes 6 Stops in August, Your Chance to Try ‘Room Scale’...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HTC Vive Delayed to 2016, 7,000 Additional Developer Kits Coming Early Next Year
In an update to the company’s blog today, HTC has announced that the Vive VR headset for Valve’s SteamVR platform will be delayed until April 2016. Announcing back in March that the HTC Vive would...
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“Second Generation” HTC Vive Development Kit to Debut at CES in January
HTC today announced that it will be launching the “second generation” of the HTC Vive Developer Kit at CES 2016 in January. HTC made the announcement today via a blog update which confirmed a delay of...
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Valve’s Chet Faliszek on HTC Vive Pre, Content Showcase Surprises and Ninja Cats
I sit down with Valve Writer, Game Developer and seemingly omnipotent VR Evangelist Chet Faliszek to discuss the new Vive Pre, Valve’s focus on a safe VR experience, expectations for the upcoming VR...
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The HTC Vive Costs $799 and Ships April 1st
HTC have finally officially announced the price of the ‘Consumer Edition’ of their Valve SteamVR powered virtual reality solution. The HTC Vive will cost a cool $799. Those eagerly awaiting news on how...
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Steam Expands VR Game Listings With Supported Headsets, Play Area, and More
In preparation for the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Valve has enhanced the categorization of VR games listed on Steam. Steam first added a basic ‘VR Support’ category all the way back at the...
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Valve Releases First SteamVR Developer Roundtable Discussion Video
Filmed as part of the recent SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, Valve have released the first in what appears to be a series of discussions with developers working on titles for the SteamVR...
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Valve is Bringing the Steam Library into VR with SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode
Valve today confirmed the existence of SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode which will effectively allow players to play any game from their Steam library inside of VR on big virtual display. For the best VR...
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How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready
With the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive launching within two weeks of each other, VR is the talk of the town. For the gamers out there who are beginning to consider purchasing a headset, one major question...
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Valve Now Prompting Rift Owners to Install SteamVR
Although Valve has buddied up with HTC to create the Vive as SteamVR’s flagship headset, the company has made it clear that they want SteamVR to be headset agnostic. Now Steam is identifying Rift users...
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How to Use the Oculus Rift With SteamVR in 4 Steps
Although Valve is now prompting Rift users to install SteamVR, there’s more steps to actually get the Oculus Rift working with Steam. In a few quick steps you can use your Oculus Rift to play Steam and...
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Valve & Lionsgate Bringing 100 Feature Films to Steam That You Can Watch in a...
In an interesting announcement today which sees Valve’s Steam platform becoming increasingly competitive toward video distribution platforms like Amazon Video, Lionsgate will be making more than 100...
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HTC Will Install Your Vive For $250, Now in Select U.S. Cities
Are you the sort of person that has a hard time installing surround sound stereo equipment, or building IKEA shelves? Well, HTC is now offering customers a premium installation service to take the...
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