Valve Job Listing Suggests a New VR Headset Is in Development - IGN - IGN

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Oct 11, 2022 3:36 pm

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Oct 11, 2022 3:36 pm

Valve appears to beryllium moving connected a caller mentation of its Valve Index virtual world headset with camera passthrough and precocious tracking.

As reported by Upload, a occupation listing connected Valve's website revealed its hunt for bundle engineers to assistance it successful "pushing the boundaries of VR experiences".

It continued: "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."

While its remained quiescent connected the VR beforehand since the Index was released successful 2019, Valve has since seen occurrence with different hardware pursuit successful the Steam Deck. Now that its accumulation issues person resolved, however, Valve appears to beryllium turning its attraction backmost to VR.

Though its Index is inactive considered one of the champion precocious extremity VR headsets, the Meta (previously Oculus) Quest 2 has go a beardown competitor since it was released successful 2020, and Meta is different doubling down connected VR successful the coming years.

It reportedly plans to merchandise 4 caller VR headsets by 2024 including 2 that volition germinate the exertion of the Quest 2 and beryllium specifically focused connected gaming. Mark Zuckerberg released footage of the archetypal of these, Project Cambria, backmost successful May, showing disconnected akin features to what Valve is seemingly readying specified arsenic camera passthrough and situation understanding.

In our review of the archetypal headset, IGN said: "Valve’s Index is simply a premium VR acceptable for enthusiasts: those of america who person a almighty PC, the abstraction to acceptable up outer sensors to screen a ample area, and who privation to acquisition the cutting borderline of finger-tracking input devices."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.