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Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's new long-awaited Half-Life game, is a first-person shooter set in the period before Half-Life 2, and you control the character of Alyx Vance as she and her father fight an alien empire. This virtual reality game is really something, but to play it you need a VR headset.…

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Play 'Half-Life: Alyx' without dropping $1,000 on a Valve Index. Image: oculus / mashable photo composite By Dylan HaasMashable Shopping2020-04-01 14:24:28 UTC TL;DR: As…

Roto VR, startup which markets an interactive, ‘360 degree’ chair, has raised £1.5 million in a funding round led by Pembroke VCT. Others in the round include TVB Growth Fund, managed by The FSE Group. The chair is designed to make VR more accessible to a mass audience, many of…

There's a lot in this bundle, including epic strategy game Into the Breach, puzzle drama The Witness, time-bending VR shooter Superhot, and graphic adventure Broken Age. Hollow Knight, Undertale, Psychonauts and Tilt Brush are great choices, too. And then there's the comics. Locke & Key has just been turned into…

Dario Casali, a level designer at Valve, told Engadget that " started out as an exploration of VR rather than saying we're going to just work with Half-Life IP. After we shipped The Lab and we were working on the Vive, we decided we were going to push into the…

Virtual reality has been two years away from mainstream adoption for the past six years. In that time, huge companies have made big VR bets only to walk away, countless VR startups have faded or flared out and investment has slowed significantly. Building an attractive VR product for large enterprises…

If you've already got a HTC Vive, you might be in two minds about forking out for the complete Cosmos Elite bundle. If you've got base stations and controllers already, why drop dollars on more? But HTC has you covered. In the coming weeks, it will be launching a headset-only…

Asics, the Japanese footwear company, would have liked to put on a show to demonstrate its new sneakers to the world. But, with things as they are, opted to embrace technology to show off its new gear. So, rather than coaxing people over to its Japan HQ for a show,…

VR and escape rooms go together like peanut butter and the chocolate I've run out of. Fireproof Games VR gaming is getting a needed boost, just when we could use it most. First, Valve released the stunning Half-Life: Alyx. Now, there's The Room: A Dark Matter, too. I've spent years playing The…

Half-Life: Alyx may have been built from the ground up to support Valve’s super expensive Index headset, but as you may have seen from my Half-Life: Alyx PC requirements and VR headset specs article, you can actually play it on any VR headset that supports SteamVR, including the HTC Vive,…