A good place to follow all things VR related is at The Road To VR. This is an informative site that carries news and developments rather than trying to be funny and clever like far too many sites. The site has recently posted an interesting article regarding a VR initiative from Steam : Valve to Reveal “SteamVR Dev Kit” Next Week at GDC 2015 :
Gaming giant Valve has announced that they’ll be revealing a “previously-unannounced SteamVR hardware system” at GDC 2015. The company has been actively engaged in R&D in the AR/VR space but hasn’t previously broken into the hardware market. This new information makes it look like they might be gearing up to do just that.
Valve were at one stage expected to enter the VR hardware market, but then some of their staff moved to Oculus and things went quiet on the Valve front, very quiet. However the latest news suggests that Valve are very much interested in sharing a piece of the VR hardware pie.
Valve are also reaching out to VR content creators, as they explain on the steampowered site :
With the introduction of SteamVR hardware, Valve is actively seeking VR content creators. Are you a developer or publisher interested in experiencing the new SteamVR hardware? We’ll be giving scheduled VR demos during the week of GDC, March 4th-6th, 2015, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
This is a very interesting development to say the least.
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