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EGOSOFT planning two new space simulation games, 'X Rebirth VR Edition' using Vulkan and also X4

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2016

EGOSOFT, who became pretty Linux-friendly in recent times are working on two new space simulation games! X Rebirth VR Edition will use Vulkan and they are starting to plan X4.

Khronos are working on an open standard for VR, Valve will use it

By Liam Dawe, 6 Dec 2016

Khronos announced today that they are working on a new open standard for VR and Valve have already said they expect replace parts of their OpenVR with it.

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Valve adds OSVR headset support to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2016

If you want to play games in VR on Steam, the list of compatible headsets just got bigger. OSVR is now a supported option.

'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will support Linux as soon as possible

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2016

Good news Croteam and Serious Sam fans, as 'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will come to Linux as soon as it's possible to do so.

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2016

Here's something awesome to see, the Valve demo of the HTC Vive on Linux was using Kubuntu, and we have some pictures.

Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.

Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.

Looks like VR support for Linux will be shown off at SteamDevDays this week, about time

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

VR support for Linux has been lacking and the communication around it has been pretty damn poor by Valve and HTC, but it seems this is about to change at SteamDevDays.

Victor Vran, the really great action RPG now has local co-op play

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2016

I know a few of you have been waiting for this! Victor Vran now officially has local co-op play, which makes an already fantastic game even better.

Action RPG Victor Vran updated with an interesting Dynamic Resolution graphical option, local co-op coming soon

By Liam Dawe, 31 Aug 2016

Victor Vran is a very good action RPG, if you haven't picked it up yet, just do it already! Anyway, the game has been updated again recently with an interesting new graphical feature named Dynamic Resolution.

Le Havre: The Inland Port, the PC game adaption of an award winning board-game will have Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2016

Le Havre: The Inland Port is an award winning board-game from Uwe Rosenberg and it will released Monday 29th of August. Good news is it will feature a Linux version.

VR Funhouse from Nvidia to be open sourced this summer

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2016

VR Funhouse is currently a Windows only advanced VR game, but the interesting thing is that Nvidia claim they will open source it.

A third of Valve now working on VR, still no Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2016

A Valve developer on reddit has talked a bit about Valve and VR, and he specifically stated that a third of Valve is now working on VR. A third of Valve, yet still no Linux support.

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2016

The HDK2 from Razer will use their OSVR ecosystem - an open source ecosystem supporting multiple types of hardware brands.

First Steps with OpenVR and the Vive on Linux

By Cheeseness, 17 May 2016

While not officially supported, it turns out that through SteamVR and Valve's OpenVR, the HTC Vive "works" on Linux with some minor permission changes.

Valve & HTC launch the Vive VR device, without Linux & SteamOS support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Apr 2016

It seems Valve/HTC are the latest company to release something with Linux support listed right up to release, and then remove mentions of it. This time it's the Vive VR device.