VRFocus - Following the official reveal of the collaboration between Valve and HTC earlier today, the first official image of the Vive head-mounted display (HMD) has been revealed. The device itself has been confirmed to be available as a ‘developer edition’ this spring, followed by a consumer release later this year.
Viveport, the VR retail platform from HTC is now giving developers 90% of their game revenue, instead of a 70/30 spilt like Steam.
It could be free and it wouldn't matter at this point. There isn't really a PCVR Market and I say that as a PCVR user. It is modders and enthusiasts with a few retail products on Steam.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
I mean, that might explain the Team Fortress 2 thing, because Valve might bring that to Source 2 (though I'm not sure I'd bet on that), but I can't see how Portal 64 hurts them. If anything, it's more attention to the Portal and therefore Valve/Steam.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
Valve has updated its stance on AI games on the Steam storefront, allowing creators to publish AI-created games.
Hell no. I want games that have been made by creative minds who have a passion for their craft, not a bot with a penchant for plagiarism.
So instead of paying for an engine and assets to create a game they are paying for an engine and assets to create a game.
Getting the M9 and getting this as well!
Things I never thought I'd end up with a collection of: competing VR headsets.
I guess we're in the future now. :D
This looks really cool, 2x high res screens is a lot nicer than one split 1080p one.. Bring on the CV1 though, Oculus!
Hmm, this will need a beefy rig unless games pull back a bit or are incredibly well optimised.. That's a lot of pixels to be pushing at 90fps!
Im so gonna play platform games with this ! http://i.kinja-img.com/gawk...
Valve is known for their tendency to postpone things or cancel them all together. For me it's just another player on a field where lot's of competitors saying things and still not delivering anything.