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HTC Vive PRO HMD pre-orders open, standard Vive has price drop

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2018

HTC has recently announced that the HTC Vive PRO HMD is now available to pre-order with shipping expected in April, on top of that the normal Vive has seen a price drop.

SteamVR beta updated to fix a radv crash and 'fixes' Vive Pro on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2018

A small SteamVR beta is out that fixes an OpenGL crash with the AMD radv drivers and it also fixes support for the Vive Pro on Linux.

Keith Packard's video from 'LinuxConfAu 2018' talking about Virtual Reality and Linux is up

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2018

Keith Packard has been consulting for Valve for the past year to get Virtual Reality devices hooked up and properly working on Linux. Take a look at his presentation from LinuxConfAu 2018.

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE releases with same-day Linux support, compatible with the non-VR version

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2017

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is another Virtual Reality title with same-day Linux support from Croteam, so those of you with expensive headsets can make things go boom!

The Talos Principle VR is now live with a discount for owners of the original

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2017

For those of you with a fancy HTC Vive, you might want to check out The Talos Principle VR which launched with Linux support.

The Talos Principle VR will have Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2017

Croteam announced The Talos Principle VR and the good news is that it seems it will support Linux too.

The HTC Vive just had a price cut, VR just became a little more accessible

By Liam Dawe, 21 Aug 2017

Virtual Reality just became a little more accessible, as the HTC Vive has had what looks like a permanent price cut!

Valve's Knuckles VR controller looks pretty decent, dev kits going out

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2017

Valve have released in public a quick start guide for their new VR Knuckles controllers, they look pretty good.

SteamVR updated with experimental Linux support for SteamVR Home

By Liam Dawe, 26 May 2017

Valve have pushed out another update to SteamVR, this time Linux has been given experimental support for SteamVR Home.

Looks like Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope for Linux will be coming soon

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2017

Thanks to a Twitter tip, it seems that Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope might be coming to Linux soon with Vulkan.

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter & Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter released in full

By Liam Dawe, 4 Apr 2017

Croteam have recently released both Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter & Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam. They both use their new Fusion engine which comes with Linux support, Vulkan and 64bit.

Yaakuro shows off SteamVR on Unreal Engine 4 using Vulkan on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2017

Previously Yaakuro worked to make Unreal Engine 4 work with SteamVR using OpenGL on Linux, but now he's moved onto making it work with Vulkan!

Yaakuro has worked on making SteamVR work with Unreal Engine 4 using OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 11 Mar 2017

Impressive work by Yaakuro, who has been able to get SteamVR to work with Unreal Engine 4 and it uses OpenGL.

Munch VR has released an experimental Linux version, munch your way up the food chain

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2017

Munch VR, a casual VR gamed aimed at a wide audience now has an experimental version which supports Linux.

New NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver released, fixing SteamVR problems

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

NVIDIA have released another beta of their Vulkan driver, which includes a fix for a major problem with SteamVR.

LG are making a VR headset, to be shown off at Valve's GDC booth

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

And we have another VR HMD contender in the rings folks. LG have announced they will be showing off their own VR HMD at GDC with Valve.

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Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

OpenXR is the official name of the Khronos Group's new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality. Hopefully we will see Valve and other companies move towards this instead of their own implementations.