37 Minute long interview with Gabe Newell and the Valve VR Team

[Ryz]

 

Some TL:DW:

No HL3 news.
Slight showoff the new "knuckles" controller.
Not interested in AR, they're fundamentally different.
Sales are good.
Valve working on 3 full length VR Games
The tether is annoying, Wireless addon 2017
Wireless integration 2018
Hardware manufactures (they mention displays specifically) happy to help now that the market is more proven.
Tech is there today where the next few generations will see much higher resolutions at upwards of 200hz
Overall VR is a success, although the current install base is low, the game developers are making profits ensuring a healthy future
 

[PigWithAMustache]

37 minutes of god himself

[Prysin]

@App4that

Bring forth the kleenex

[App4that]

1 minute ago, Prysin said:

@App4that

Bring forth the kleenex

My money is on Half Life 3 being a VR exclusive, suck it bitches 

[The Sloth]

13 minutes ago, App4that said:

My money is on Half Life 3 being a VR exclusive, suck it bitches 

its out, sadly we can't play it because we are not gods 

 

[VerticalDiscussions]

Is it me or is he lighter?

 

 

[Orangeator]

Boring... Not really news worthy in my opinion.

[Master Disaster]

Gabe has gone from god to devil over the past 5 years. He used to care about games, now he cares about milking every penny he can from as many people as he can while doing the bare minimum work and spending the bare minimum of cash along the way.

 

Steam needs to DIAF and Gabe needs to move along and let others have a turn.

[Cheddle]

his model does ensure a win-win for VR though... rather than the oculus/google/samsung approach of ensuring a win for their share holders.

[Humbug]

good stuff, thanks

 

so 3 games using unity and source2 engines.

[christianled59]

6 hours ago, Orangeator said:

Boring... Not really news worthy in my opinion.

Plenty of news. New controllers, plans for vr's futures, 3 new valve games. What more do you want. 

[christianled59]

In the video, they also address a hl3 logo that was spotted on the desktop of a pic taken at Valve. They didn't comment much on it, but I'm willing to bet we see a something with half life and vr. Maybe not half life 3, but something sharing the ip for sure. 

[Humbug]

he mentioned very high resolutions and 200Hz headsets.

 

AMD and NVidia will love this to drive enthusiast GPUs.

 

it's also clear they do not expect VR to become mass market for now, they see it as something for enthusiasts. But it's still successful because devs are making profits off their VR games and investing in the next gen of games, and the number of headsets is increasing.

 

this is what I have stated before that some people had a warped idea of success where they would only call the HTC vive gen 1 successful if it had became an affordable mass market product. Not every product is meant to do that.