Valve Index 2 VR headset could rival the Meta Quest 3 in tracking - PCGamesN

Although the Meta Quest 2 (formerly the Oculus Quest 2) is the astir fashionable VR headset connected Steam by rather a margin, the Valve Index is the closest 2nd acknowledgment to its industry-leading tracking features. Valve’s reportedly moving connected its adjacent kit that’ll instrumentality the combat consecutive to the Meta Quest 3, banking connected maintaining its best-in-class lead.

Valve is presently looking for an experienced bundle technologist successful machine imaginativeness to assistance make what mightiness beryllium the adjacent best gaming headset. The job listing (via UploadVR), explains that the “main scope of this presumption is to prototype, ship, and enactment user gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, situation understanding, oculus tracking, and manus tracking.”

Advanced tracking is simply a halfway portion of the imaginativeness for what small we presently cognize of the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest Pro (otherwise known arsenic Project Cambria). It’s apt nary coincidence that Valve’s occupation posting went unrecorded connected October 7, specified days earlier the Meta Connect 2022 lawsuit that’ll uncover each astir its competitor.

We archetypal heard of Valve’s caller headset from a leak past year, which suggested it would beryllium wireless and presently carries the codename ‘Deckard’. Valve CEO Gabe Newell points towards the Steam Deck arsenic a breakthrough successful this exertion successful an interrogation with Edge Magazine, highlighting its “battery-capable, high-performance horsepower that yet you could usage successful VR applications arsenic well.” Since the Steam Deck itself is an amalgamation of erstwhile Valve technology, blending the accessibility of the Steam Controller with the capabilities of the Steam Link into the handheld gaming PC we cognize and emotion today, it stands to crushed we’ll spot its power transportation forward.

Details connected Deckard get adjacent murkier aft these reports, but it’s imaginable it could enactment mixed world with inside-out caput and controller tracking. This is much akin to the Meta Quest Pro than the Quest 3, targeting societal experiences similar the Metaverse alternatively than being a straight-up gaming device. We’ll request to hold for much accusation earlier jumping to conclusions, though, truthful we urge the accustomed dose of brackish successful the meantime.