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One Dreamer: Prologue, a narrative adventure about a failed VR game developer needs some Linux testing

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2020

Developer Gareth Ffoulkes is currently working on One Dreamer, a narrative story adventure about an indie game developer suffering burnout. There's a Prologue and it now has a Linux Beta that needs some testing.

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Today Valve made quite a big announcement about the future of VR, including an entire platform being dropped.

Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2020

Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.

New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Mar 2020

While Half-Life: Alyx isn't on Linux (yet—it's coming), Valve are still trying to get it working as good as possible with Steam Play Proton and a new update for SteamVR is up.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-5 is out with updated OpenVR, Vulkan and fixes

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2020

Valve published Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play which includes some helpful additions and bug fixes, should help you play those Windows-only games while quarantined.

Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2020

Valve continue rapidly iterating on SteamVR, as they attempt to push the limits of what VR can do both on the hardware and software side with SteamVR 1.10 out now.

Open source XR runtime (VR/AR) 'Monado' sees a first release

By Liam Dawe, 25 Feb 2020

With the Khronos Group launching the OpenXR specification last year, their aim was to unify Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) development while Collabora worked on their open source implementation of Monado.

Unity deprecating built-in XR (VR/AR etc) support for a new plugin system - Valve doing their own for SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2020

While the state of Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality (XR) is constantly in flux and improving all the time, Unity have announced with Unity 2019.3 that their built-in XR support is being deprecated.

SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2019

Valve just recently put out the latest big new build of their SteamVR platform, with something to be aware of if you're on Linux.

Heroes Of Avranche, a new action RPG is heading to Linux in early December

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2019

The endless dungeons await in Heroes Of Avranche, an Early Access action RPG that's going to appear on December 3 on Steam.

Valve are making the Index VR kit available in more countries

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2019

If Valve want the new Half-Life: Alyx to be a success, they need to push VR into every possible country they can and they're working a bit more towards that.

Valve has now confirmed Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2019

Valve have now officially confirmed that Half-Life is back with their flagship VR title named Half-Life: Alyx.

Another big SteamVR update is out now, with plenty of Linux fixes for VR enthusiasts

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2019

SteamVR 1.8 is now out of Beta and with it, comes plenty of updates to the whole system with some big audio changes and some good sounding Linux fixes.

Valve have released a big new 1.7 version of SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, 11 Sep 2019

Bringing together a ton of updates from all the recent Beta releases, a big new release of SteamVR is out for everyone further refining the VR experience overall.

Another SteamVR release is up, further improving the VR experience on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2019

Valve continue to move at a rapid pace to improve SteamVR across all platforms, especially with the Valve Index being so new there's plenty of teething issues to address.

xrdesktop, a new Valve-funded open source project to bring Linux desktops into VR

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jul 2019

Valve seem to be pushing Linux support even harder now, with the announcement of the open source xrdesktop project from Collabora.

Khronos releases the OpenXR 1.0 specification aimed at unifying VR and AR

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2019

Today, The Khronos Group has formally announced the OpenXR 1.0 specification as an exciting step towards bringing together the various different ways of interacting with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

Good news for VR fans in the US, the full Valve Index bundle is back in stock

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

Valve emailed a press release today, to mention that the full bundle of the Valve Index kit is back in stock for those in the US looking to pick it up.

SteamVR has another beta up, with plenty of Linux fixes and other improvements

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2019

With the Valve Index now out, Valve continue to make quick improvements to SteamVR with the latest Beta now available.

VR rhythm game "Groove Gunner" looks insane and it's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jul 2019

Think you have some sick moves? Own a VR system? You're going to want to keep an eye on Groove Gunner as it looks absolutely insane (in a nice way) and it might make you sweat a bit.

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