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    Valve to announce VR hardware system at GDC

    Hi,

    Valve will soon reveal a new VR system:
    Steam Search
    http://store.steampowered.com/universe/

    and
    http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/02/23/valve-announcing-new-hardware-at-gdc


    It will hopefully run on steam OS and thus Linux! This + glNext = extremely exciting GDC!
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  • #2
    Here is another article which suggests that Valve might be making their own steam machine:
    Valve is making a VR headset and its own Steam Machine
    http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/23/steamvr-valve-virtual-reality-gdc/
    Valve -- the company behind Portal, Team Fortress 2 and the widely-used game distribution hub Steam -- will show off its own virtual reality hardware, "SteamVR," at next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This comes despite Valve's previous insistence that it had no plans to release any such hardware (we had our doubts about that anyway, after Valve held virtual reality demos at Steam Dev Days in January 2014). Developers who got their hands on the company's early VR experiments were impressed by their holodeck-levels of immersion, but the tech was reportedly very rough and required a full-room setup to completely function. Additionally, it looks like Valve is making its own version of a "Steam Machine" -- the PC gaming initiative aimed at bringing PC gaming into the living room.


    And it makes sense if you ask me. Currently steam machines are nothing more than PCs with a custom OS where you can't even play all your steam games. Having one that is optimized for VR and just works could be a killer-argument.

    And the software interface will probably be compatible with Oculus Rift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vqNpZqnl1o#t=270

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    • #3
      There is apparently also a commented line in the source code of the announcement page which mentions a headset:
      http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2wy5vg/evidence_valve_is_announcing_an_hmd_at_gdc/

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      • #4
        More evidence from an internet person :
        Originally posted by Gh0stRAT
        To further elaborate: I went on a tour of Valve this past summer and asked them about their VR plans. The tour guide mentioned that originally, they weren't planning to release their own VR hardware, but that they had changed their minds after Facebook bought Oculus.
        Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comme...ev_kit/cov9mtz

        Seems random, but 5 month earlier the same guy posted:
        Originally posted by Gh0stRAT
        Nah, I toured Valve about two months ago, and the guide mentioned that since the Facebook buyout, they haven't been working as closely with Oculus. They're thinking of releasing their own competitor to the Rift, but I think they'll have a hard time without Abrash.

        Long story short, I doubt Valve would withold HL3 to be a launch title for CV1, and we all know how Valve and hard deadlines don't mix anyway...
        Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comme...nt_bay/ckt6t1r

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