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Obviously the MVPs would roll like: Half Life, Dota, Team Fortress, Left for Dead.
As for a mascot, well, I cant imagine Gabe Newell would look good in a cat suit or plumber outfit.
Lol, Valve is the NFL rather than the player. Its time to look at the big picture.
Well to be fair, Dying Light was played on a DK2, and the game wasnt even optimised for VR. Thats not really an accurate depiction of the future of VR.
Now if you played Half Life 2 in VR on steam, you would have had quite a different experience. Valve optimised it and it works extremely well with the Rift.
Mass Effect has built up quite a following over the last 3 games. Gamers may be a little more hesitant for another Destiny seeing as it was a polarizing launch.
Valve has transcended gaming and become the banner for Pc gamers to gather under. Valve took a fledgling and fractured market and over the years garnered The Best online service in the gaming industry. Valve is internally driven as well. They dont hype things to the end of the earth. Most of their best features were released with a whisper than a bang, and that makes me want to support their success even more.
High FPS and graphic fidelity is a start. The Rift really worked my poor old Gtx 670 so Im wondering what the specs on your rig will have to be to fire up the Vive.
VR is great in a lot of applications, but what blew my mind was the SteamVR Mode. This takes the look of the Game Mode and curves it almost like Minority Report. This greatly improves the field of view. Im thinking that with non-VR/3D games that maybe the Vive will simulate a big screen or curve the image slightly. It wouldnt take much to simulate a large image in high detail on the Vive.
A simulated 200" screen to game on sounds lovely.
Thats pushing a lot of pixels but my god it looks amazing. This would really be something to learn how things are made. Hell, I would examine a toaster in 3D!
The Morpheus must do some kind of computing to help take the burden off the PS4. High fidelity and FPS are what makes the VR experience smooth rather than jarring. A cable would be a must.
Well, lets just say the Wii U is surviving rather than succeeding. The Wii U is far from the perfect console, but the games alone are what keeps gamers coming back. Nintendo's strength has always been the quality of its games. Nintendo's weakness is relying on gimmicks to push sales.
I have no idea how the Morpheus will hit 120fps with decent resolution. The Rift worked the piss out of my Gpu with 720p and maybe 30-40fps. I'm very anxious to see how Sony solved this problem seeing as how they have to double the image to hit each lens.
Thanks for the apology after the fact. No need to quell the rumors beforehand... HTC got a ton of free hype on this little "slip"
Oculus is owned by Facebook, so the applications are unknown, Microsoft is doing Augmented Reality which is quite different from VR and Valve is going for a Pc-heavy market with the Vive.
Each company is doing VR/AR but in their own way. Some are using cameras plus the headset, some are tethered, some have different FPS/Resolutions/Refresh Rate.
Long and short anyways is that each model is quite different from the other even though they aim for the same result.
With Valve teasing the Vive (or ReVive, now I dont know what to believe) I thought for sure this would be the perfect forum for them to get VR interest to their peripheral. I mean Valve already has VR mode in Beta on the Steam App, so something has to pop eventually.
What a bummer. My only Solace is that Nvidia has something big to reveal "5 years in the making". Pascal architecture, Mobile Phone, GTX1000 Series, could be anything at this point.
"Super Obviously"? Good lord....
HL3 on the Vive reveal. Gives me a special feeling in my tummy.
When I see the amount of active Steam users it definitely does not lead me to believe Pc gaming is shrinking.
I played HL2 on the Rift this weekend and it was incredible. Valve isnt fooling around with VR. The 3d effect was amazing! Even talking to NPCs was a treat. No longer are they somebody on the screen you literally look them in the eye when you talk to them. Its quite surreal.
If Valve does HL3 in VR you know its going to break the Steam Store.
Off Topic: Steam does a VR mode that is quite incredible to behold and its still in Beta. They are taking VR very serio...
Oh does GoG have in home streaming, family share, online community, VR mode, it's own OS, game works?
This whole article was about Valve being more than just a store.