Valve developing their own VR headset?
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It looks as though the Oculus Rift has some competition. This should be interesting.
http://www.geek.com/games/valve-will-unveil-a-virtual-reality-headset-with-full-steam-support-in-january-1577655/
"In what seems like an inevitable step towards their all-in-one platform experience, Valve has announced they are working on their own virtual reality headset for gaming."
http://www.geek.com/games/valve-will-unveil-a-virtual-reality-headset-with-full-steam-support-in-january-1577655/
"In what seems like an inevitable step towards their all-in-one platform experience, Valve has announced they are working on their own virtual reality headset for gaming."
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It's actually a hybrid solution that can do AR and VR.
You'd think Valve would have jumped on the opportunity during that time period, but I guess there's more to the story than we know.
To be fair though, (imo) Valve has been doing some pretty bad things lately *cough* steambox.
Bad or bad ass?
Steambox is probably one of their better moves imo.
Steamboxes "may" be a great move, or a step backwards... who knows. I already own a PC, and i don't need a third company (Valve) sellings PCs with Linux. I build my PCs component by component and i save a lot of money doing that.
Console gamers don't want or need it because they would miss out on all of their console exclusives.
Also, if there's somebody out there who just wants a low profile box to play low profile games, they could just get an Ouya for $99.
It seemed like castAR was just something Valve was not interesting in developing, Valve has done a lot of different UI and controller setup testing for the Oculus Rift already, it seems like they will support both, it'll be interesting to see if they help devs support both solutions on their market place. It'll be interesting to compare the Oculus Rift and Valve solution in terms of lag, resolution, immersion, and tracking. I'm looking forward to see positional tracking, rotation is great for looking around, but without positional, your head is basically locked in place.
With steam box, Valve is just trying to expand pc gaming to non technical people, and more casual gamers, I don't how that is a bad thing. Also it isn't even out yet, so it's hard to say if it's bad or not.
Yeah, but that leaves a lot of people in between. People who are very satisfied with their work machine (either desktop or laptop, mac or PC) but would love the idea of an affordable, certified box to play recent games on (and most likely double it as a media center). I think that's a great idea !