Valve is teamin🍬g up with Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard to create a brand new virtual reality headset.
Half-Life: Alyx , and by all accounts, it’s the best VR game ever made. has Alyx at 92, giving it a perfect score. We here at TheGamer sadly don’t have a high-end virtual reality rig to test out Alyx ourselves, and that’s sort of the pr💜oblem with VR gaming:𝓡 it’s bulky, requires a lot of space, and is super expensive.
These are problems that might just be solved thanks to a new partnership between Valve, Microsoft, and HP. The three companies are emba♛rking on a venture that will create the next generation of virtual reality headsets.
"The next generation HP Virtual Reality HMD–developed in collaboration🥂 with Valve and Microsoft–delivers an immersive, comfortable and compatib🍨le VR experience,” writes Steam on their “It’s the new standard in VR."
We know next to nothing about the new VR headset other than the fact that Valve and Microsoft are combining their VR know-how while HP is ma🅘king the hardware. We have no pri🥀ce, no technical specs, and no release window, but you can sign up for notifications on .
Valve already has a virtual reality headset called the 🔯Index, but it’s a pricey proposition. The headset itsel🍸f is priced at $499, while the whole Index package (including controllers and base station) is priced at a . You can buy your own gaming PC for that much money.
On the plus side, every Index does come with a free copy of Half-Life: Alyx. Although, you still need to have enough space to🍌 actually p൩articipate in VR gaming.
Which brings us to the problem of virtual reality: it’s more🍒 expensive than it looks. Now only do you need to have a high-end gaming PC which alone already costs thousands of dollars, you also need to spend another $1,000 on the VR hardware, plus you need to live in a space large enough to let you gyrate and gesticulate like aꦗ madman.
Hopefully, this new headset solves some of those problems. But 🧸we doubt it.
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