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Minor performance updates, localization fixes
Some minor performance updates to scene loads. Chinese and Japanese language users should be able to play the Slingshot scene again.
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The Lab
Also known as The Lab, l, lab
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Last update
19 May 2026
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Browse past updates and patch notes for this game.
19 updates
September 2019
- The Lab Update - September 17, 2019Fixed bug in longbow causing the bow to be dropped unintentionally.
August 2019
- The Lab was released in 2016. It had been created for roomscale VR in a world with no roomscale VR games, and took on the difficult task of building its conventions from the ground up. Now, three years later, convention…Store
December 2016
- Developing “The Lab”Developing games is hard. When you add in the unique challenges brought on by an entirely new medium, it is arguably even more so. Last October, several members of the team behind The Lab gathered at Steam Dev Days to t…
- Developing “The Lab”Developing games is hard. When you add in the unique challenges brought on by an entirely new medium, it is arguably even more so. Last October, several members of the team behind The Lab gathered at Steam Dev Days to t…
- The Lab Update - December 7, 2016Oculus Touch users can press the X and A to rotate in place, 90 degrees left or right. Requires the latest SteamVR Beta Fixed issue with Korean subtitles displaying the wrong language in Slingshot Localization update
- The Lab Update - December 7, 2016Oculus Touch users can press the X and A to rotate in place, 90 degrees left or right. Requires the latest SteamVR Beta Fixed issue with Korean subtitles displaying the wrong language in Slingshot Localization update
October 2016
- The Lab Update - October 20, 2016Longbow: Barrels and Oil now respawn when Wave 1 begins Longbow: Fixed a rare bug where The Lab would hang if exiting to the miniature view with only one controller turned on Xortex: During the title screen, the drone n…
- The Lab Update - October 20, 2016Longbow: Barrels and Oil now respawn when Wave 1 begins Longbow: Fixed a rare bug where The Lab would hang if exiting to the miniature view with only one controller turned on Xortex: During the title screen, the drone n…
July 2016
- The Lab Update - July 5, 2016Fixed a lighting bug in the hub Updated localization
- The Lab Update - July 5, 2016Fixed a lighting bug in the hub Updated localization
- Update 1 Engine updates to improve stability and performance Fixed a bug which could prevent Slingshot from loading when playing in certain languages Updated localizations Update 2 Fixed a lighting bug in the hub Update…Patch notes
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