Valve is already working on a new VR headset - Xfire

It appears that Valve is moving connected much hardware than conscionable a new Steam Deck.

A sequel to Half-Life: Alyx would acceptable close successful with Valve's adjacent VR headset.

According to a job listing, Valve is looking for a "Software Engineer - Computer Vision" who volition enactment astatine their Washington headquarters. Its occupation statement is beauteous telling of the individual's responsibilities, saying:

The main scope of this presumption is to prototype, ship, and enactment user gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking, camera passthrough, situation understanding, oculus and manus tracking.

We're decidedly funny astir the company's lofty ambitions astir taking "the adjacent steps" successful VR.

Valve has flirted with the thought of virtual world headsets for astir a decade. It yet produced the Valve Index successful 2019. It's wide considered 1 of the champion successful its people erstwhile it comes to audio prime and tracking. However, the Index suffered from the deficiency of wireless play and mediocre solution arsenic good arsenic a precocious asking terms of $999. It's present considered an inferior merchandise compared to low-end VR headsets similar the Meta Quest 2 and Pico 4.

VR gaming could get a 2nd upwind this decennary with the merchandise of much almighty gaming hardware.

Having said that, it is telling that the occupation listing popped up close astir the aforesaid clip arsenic Meta Connect 2022 wherever we'll perceive much astir the adjacent Quest VR headset.

In different news, Valve conscionable took down a caller trailer for the Steam Deck that teases its enactment for emulation. Also, leakers assertion that Valve and Sony person partnered to bring Half-Life: Alyx to the PSVR2 adjacent year.