New Valve VR Game Reportedly in Development Alongside Long-rumored Standalone Headset
New Valve VR Game Reportedly in Development Alongside Long-rumored Standalone Headset
There’s no shortage of speculation when it comes to all things Valve. Tyler McVicker, YouTuber and one of the leading voices dedicated to deciphering Valve’s various internal developments, however now reports that not only is the company’s long-awaited standalone VR headset still coming, but it may arrive alongside its own Half-Life game.
Valve’s much hyped standalone, known only as ‘Deckard’, is “still very much in production,” McVicker maintains, saying that according to his sources that Valve “still intend[s] on shipping this piece of hardware.
The standalone wasn't a rumor, it was verified to exist (via copyright documents). That being said, I've held out on buying a standalone VR so I could get this one to upgrade from the Index
Yup!
I'd consider the Quest if it wasn't owned by Meta.
No way I'd buy that hardware.
Yeah. If it was still standalone Oculus and they'd support Linux I would've almost certainly bought one already. On the other hand, it would've been very unlikely to be as cheap as they are with Facebook, since they obviously wanted to push them to the masses as a dependency for their push into VR (which so far failed epically).
I am waiting for this as well. We are in need of a solid index replacement.
I've still got an Oculus CV1 with touch controllers. It's never seemed like a good time to upgrade before. I'm feeling the hype for this.
Why must the market go standalone? Mobile processing power won't be even close to good enough for a long time, I would like some more high-end tethered options such as the Bigscreen Beyond
wireless tethering with some stand alone capability is the sweet spot in my opinion, would be nice to be able to use it on the go but with full fidelity tethered to a gaming PC at home.
I don't know. I really don't like the idea of carrying around a whole other computer an well as tracking cameras and a battery on your face when using the headset in tethered mode. The opposite of that is exactly what I like about the Beyond: strip away absolutely everything you can in order to optimize for tethered usage.
I was about to write this exact comment.
Even if I hardly ever play standalone, it's nice to have the option.
Also the ability to wander around an arbitrarily large play space is nice too.
You can still use it on a PC. Standalone allows you not just to run some low power stuff on its own, but also possibly use the processing power to offload certain task on the more enthusiast side of things of PC VR.
Having a cable running down your back breaks immersion.
And you'd be surprised how much Meta is limiting the XR2 in the quest 3. You can bump the resolution pretty high with quest game optimizer.
Don’t get me wrong, I like VR and Alyx was incredible…but Valve, can we get some normal games?
Yep. Card games, mobas. Mobas but fps. VR games. Updated engines for all 20+ year old games. You want a new IP or new sequel? Psh. That valve is dead.
Hmm. The only thing that worries me is that a mobile VR headset will be a big step back in processing power. The index is great because it's basically just a monitor. I hope their next headset is streaming from a desktop, so it's not ewaste with a potato-looking VR game six or eight years down the line.
Mobile VR is the obvious next step for VR. You just won't have as good of an experience with a cable unless you have a very dedicated setup
It's most definitively gonna allow for streaming via Wi-Fi
How do you mean “next step”? There are plenty of mobile headsets, and there are plenty of wired headsets. The next step, as with most technologies like this, is to improve on the more popular one. So better battery life, higher res, and faster.
RIP code name vader. Long live deck hard!
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