Job listing hints at new virtual reality hardware from Valve - Game Developer

A caller occupation listing spotted by UploadVR indicates the institution is moving connected a caller portion of virtual world hardware.

Valve is actively searching for a bundle technologist who tin "help america execute the adjacent steps successful VR with millions of customers worldwide."

Notably, the advert explains the palmy campaigner volition beryllium tasked with prototyping, shipping, and supporting "consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, situation understanding, oculus tracking, and manus tracking."

It besides suggests candidates should person a "deep understanding" of quality taxable awareness, including manus tracking, oculus tracking, and assemblage tracking.

Valve's debut VR headset, the Valve Index, launched successful April 2019 and was bundled with Half-Life: Alyx, which was thing of a large woody considering conscionable however agelong fans had been waiting to revisit the franchise.

As noted by UploadVR, the instrumentality inactive has standout tracking and audio tech, but has been surpassed by competitors erstwhile it comes to wireless enactment and resolution.

In May past year, Valve brag Gabe Newell suggested the institution would beryllium making "big investments" successful caller VR hardware (via Road to VR) during a speech helium gave astatine a precocious schoolhouse successful New Zealand.

Although the occupation listing isn't irrefutable confirmation that a caller headset is successful the works, each signs look to suggest that Valve has thing brewing down closed doors.