Valve job listing suggests it's working on a new VR headset - NME

It seems that Valve is moving connected immoderate caller VR hardware, according to a occupation listing from the company.

As spotted by Brad Lynch connected Twitter, Valve has posted a occupation listing successful which it is looking for bundle engineers to assistance them “achieve the adjacent steps successful VR.” More specifically, Valve is looking for radical to “prototype, ship, and enactment user gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, situation understanding, oculus tracking, and manus tracking.”

Valve’s headset, the Valve Index, has been connected the marketplace for implicit 3 years present and has since been surpassed by newer and cheaper headsets. Additionally, with Sony acceptable to escaped the Playstation VR2 headset upon the satellite successful aboriginal 2023, it seems that Valve is anxious to drawback up.

Valve has been hinting astatine expanding its ventures successful VR for a portion now. In May 2021, CEO Gabe Newell said that the institution was “making large investments successful caller headsets” successful caller headsets during a speech astatine the Sancta Maria College successful New Zealand.

Additionally, successful an interrogation with Edge mag successful February of this year, Newell name-checked VR erstwhile discussing the Steam Deck, stating: “one of the things [the Steam Deck] represents is battery-capable, high-performance horsepower that yet you could usage successful VR applications arsenic well. You tin instrumentality the PC and physique thing that is overmuch much transportable. We’re not truly determination yet, but this is simply a stepping stone.”

Valve added a caller occupation presumption focused connected machine imaginativeness for VR hardware

“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” pic.twitter.com/LmAdm9nyrP

— Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) October 10, 2022

That echoes erstwhile comments made by Valve merchandise decorator Greg Coomer successful an interrogation with The Verge, successful which, erstwhile asked if the Steam Deck’s spot could beryllium utilized successful a standalone VR headset, helium replied that it would “run good successful that environment” and that “it’s precise applicable to america and our aboriginal plans.”

Rumours astir a standalone VR headset from Valve, that doesn’t necessitate being connected to a high-end PC, person been circulating for a while. In September past year, a datamine uncovered a drawstring of information pointing to the codename for the Valve Index 2. Additionally, the summation of an enactment called “Standalone System Layer” successful a hidden Valve paper raised the suspicions of an upcoming standalone VR headset.

It’s breathtaking times for VR fans close present – as, up of the merchandise of the PlayStation VR2, a elder subordinate of unit astatine Sony has said helium believes indie developers person been “waiting for this adjacent VR boom.”

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