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.
If valve makes HL3 vr only im gonna go and shit all over there office
How do you actually make this work without making a separate game that just uses the same maps and weapons? Even then things won’t be designed in a way that you’d like, and a lot of what makes the experience good would be lost.
You basically have to make a second game based on the VR game. This is why nobody really does that.
2D games translate to VR either by providing virtual controls like in space, flight, and driving sims. Or they haphazardly stick cardboard cutout models that float through everything like in skyrim/fallout 4 VR.
Well made VR games with proper physics, like Boneworks, HL:Alyx, or Blade and Sorcery require an amount of input that you can’t get outside of VR.
To get the same amount of control you get in a well made vr game from KB+M you’d basically be playing QWOP.
There’s no way to get an equivalent of:
- 3 3D Positional+Rotational inputs
- capacitive finger tracking
- face buttons w/ capacitive thumb tracking
- analog sticks
On a standard gamepad or kb+m. That’s before we talk about full-body tracking. If you make a game that really takes advantage of all of that, there’s no way to make it translate well.
half-life: alyx - episode 2
Damn it, I just realized if they release the Deckard there won’t be another VR headset from them.
I’d play the shit out of half life Kleiner.
That dude definitely saw some wild shit escaping from black mesa, fleeing north america during the xen portal storms, seven hour war, and the subsequent occcupation of the combine and his relocation to city 17 somewhere in Russia. His adventure spans like…10 or 15 years.
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
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).
Me too. I was disappointed by Sonys software support for the PSVR2 and I don’t want a Quest because it’s from Facebook.
RIP code name vader. Long live deck hard!
