Valve with own VR glasses and Half-Life VR? – VR prototype slideshows

Valve seems to be working on his own VR helmet – the photo is supposed to show an alleged prototype. (Source: Imgur)

Although Valve has been involved in the virtual reality industry for some time, working with HTC and the Vive product, as well as the Lighthouse tracking system and Knuckles controllers optimized for virtual reality, Valve has not still launched his own VR helmet. – This should change in 2019, however.

As reported by UploadVR (via Golem), based on Valve-related sources, Valve would work with its own 2,880 x 1,600-pixel VR headset, which is equivalent to HTC Vive Pro, but with a significantly larger vertical field of view. of 135 instead of 100 Degree, which looks more like the Pimax 5k + / 8k. The larger field of view compared to the Vive Pro with the same resolution results in a lower horizontal pixel density, which is then more in line with the standard version of HTC Vive.

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On imgur, images of the so-called Valve VR prototype eyeglbades dated July 2018 show photodiodes placed under the plastic case, which could be used to track the position of the VR glbades in the room, as well as two cameras and two cameras. an integrated helmet. According to Valves, VR headphones with SteamVR and Valves have Knuckles controllers in version 3 (previously only in developer version) and the Lighthouse system for motion detection in the room to work in. On the other hand, the eye tracking to follow the perspective of the eye should not be integrated.

The release of VR glbades from Valve is expected for 2019 and should be performed according to UploadVR in combination with a virtual reality game in the Half-Life universe. The sources of UploadVR suggest that it is not Half-Life 3, but a precedent that is played before Half-Life events 1 and / or 2.

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