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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleValve Announces ‘Skeletal Input’ to Give SteamVR Apps More Lifelike Hands...
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...
View ArticleValve: 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...
View Article‘Modbox’ Developer Shows Off Knuckles Controllers in Action with SteamVR...
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...
View ArticleReport: 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...
View ArticleValve 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...
View ArticleValve’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...
View ArticleValve Releases CAD Models for Index VR System, Letting Makers Build to Their...
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,...
View ArticleWithout 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...
View ArticleValve: 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”...
View ArticleValve 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...
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