Steam Body has lastly been revealed and guarantees to let gamers entry most of their Steam library (be it VR or in any other case) proper from the headset. Sadly, that received’t embody any new VR content material from Valve, the corporate has confirmed.
Throughout a current interview with Valve, the corporate confirmed that it has no first-party VR content material within the works, for the headset’s launch or in any other case. When requested if the corporate had any VR content material in growth, a member of the Steam Body workforce responded with a easy and definitive “no.”
The assertion places an finish to rumors that had been swirling since at the least 2020, which asserted that an uneven ‘PC vs. VR’ recreation within the Half-Life universe was in growth. It’s unclear if the rumors had been appropriate and the sport has since been cancelled, or if no such challenge was in growth within the first place.
Valve’s first full-fledged VR recreation, Half-Life: Alyx, launched inside a yr of the discharge of Index, the corporate’s first VR headset. And despite the fact that Alyx wasn’t launched similtaneously the headset, Valve had publicly confirmed {that a} “flagship VR recreation” was in growth even earlier than Index was shipped.
This time round, the corporate has been fairly clear that customers shouldn’t count on any new VR content material from Valve on the launch of Steam Body or anytime quickly after.
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