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Metro Awakening (VR) releases November 7

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25

Vertigo Games are releasing the VR game Metro Awakening on November 7, so it may be time to dust off your VR kit for this one.

The NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx has a big Summer 2024 update out now

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

With the rumours swirling around a new Half-Life game coming, this is an excellent time to play the updated NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx if you don't own a VR kit. And there's a big Summer 2024 update out now.

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Alien: Rogue Incursion (VR) looks like it will turn me into a nervous wreck

By Liam Dawe, Jul 29

I'm looking forward to playing through another proper single-player VR game, and it looks like Alien: Rogue Incursion may be my next big one.

VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8

While the Linux support of ALVR is still quite rough due to various issues with SteamVR, ALVR is a very promising way to stream VR games to your headset via Wi-Fi and a new release is out now with v20.9.1.

DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans

By Liam Dawe, Jun 20

VR fans rejoice! The GNOME project has finally pulled in DRM lease protocol support today, something required for getting VR under GNOME on Wayland working well.

ElectricMaple joins WiVRn and ALVR in giving options to stream VR to a headset

By Liam Dawe, Jun 19

Helping you cut down on all those wires, and potentially making way for cheaper low-end VR headsets for streaming, ElectricMaple was announced by Collabora and PlutoVR joining the likes of WiVRn and ALVR.

SteamVR 2.6 released with experimental improvements to async on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13

Valve released the latest update to SteamVR bringing with it a good few fixes, although most of it is for Steam Link. This follows on from a few recent Beta releases.

SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"

By Liam Dawe, May 29

Exciting, even more improvements to SteamVR support are coming with the latest Beta release fixing up more issues.

SteamVR 2.5 released with multiple Linux fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 8

After a couple of Beta releases, Valve has now launched the latest stable release of SteamVR which brings in the recent Linux improvements.

SteamVR Beta gets an SDL fix for Fedora Linux fans

By Liam Dawe, May 7

Valve seem to be actually cleaning up SteamVR on Linux a bit more recently, which is kind of exciting when it's been left rough for so long.

VR game Alien: Rogue Incursion releases late 2024

By Liam Dawe, Apr 29

Oh damn, this is quite exciting as an Alien fan and might be a reason to pop my VR headset back on again. Alien: Rogue Incursion is coming sometime in late 2024.

Escape Simulator adds VR support in the latest free update

By Liam Dawe, Apr 3

Escape Simulator from Pine Studio has proven to be popular, so much in fact that they hit 1 million sales in less than a year and multiple expansions later there's another big free upgrade.

Time to blow the dust off your VR headset - Metro Awakening is coming

By Liam Dawe, Feb 1

Metro Awakening has been announced from Vertigo Games, and will be the first full VR entry into Metro. So clearly it's time to blow the dust off your VR headset and clean away the spider webs.

Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR get lots of visual tweaks in new Beta

By Liam Dawe, Nov 10, 2023

Valve released a fresh Beta update across Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR that includes lots of subtle visual tweaks to the UI to make it look a bit fancier.

GE-Proton 8-23 fixes VRChat and reworks GStreamer plugin

By Liam Dawe, Nov 8, 2023

The community-maintained GE-Proton compatibility layer has another small release out for Linux desktop / Steam Deck with GE-Proton 8-23 being released November 8th.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Nov 1, 2023

Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.

Valve released big new Steam desktop, Steam Deck and SteamVR 2.0 updates

By Liam Dawe, Oct 26, 2023

We have a triple update from Valve with SteamVR 2.0 now out of Beta, along with Steam Deck and Steam desktop upgrades so here's all the news.

Valve fixes up more SteamVR 2.0 Beta issues on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Oct 25, 2023

Another Beta update has landed for SteamVR 2.0, and this time it seems at least the initial startup issues may now be solved for most VR gamers on Linux.

Steam Deck gets a 'Laser Pointer' Gyro mode, plus more desktop and SteamVR work

By Liam Dawe, Oct 12, 2023

Valve released some more Steam Deck Beta Client updates recently, one of them including an interesting new Gyro mode so here's all the details on what's new.

Valve fix up more SteamVR 2.0 Beta issues

By Liam Dawe, Oct 5, 2023

After once again making it safe to take off your headset, Valve put up another SteamVR 2.0 Beta update focused on fixing up more problems and hopefully making it work better.

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