Valve's 'The Lab' is a compilation VR experience set in Portal's universe releasing this Spring
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
Valve teaming up with HTC for the Vive has left many to hope the company would consider porting one of their games to virtual reality. It appears we're pretty close to that thanks to some new information that was made public today.
According to a tweet from Geoff Keighley, Valve will be debuting a new VR experience set in Portal's universe, Aperture Science. The new series of experiements, so far dubbed "The Lab", will debut at this year's GDC.
Following up with that tweet, Valve has sent out an official press release regarding The Lab, which includes a number of VR experiements that can be enjoyed in a room-scale VR experience.
The Lab will be offered for free via Steam when it releases this Spring.
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replyDaniel Perez posted a new article, Valve's 'The Lab' is a compilation VR experience set in Portal's universe releasing this Spring
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I wonder if this is going to be Vive only. Seems to just say "VR" for now.
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It'll no doubt be Steam VR only and probably room scale only. Gabe recently stated that exclusivity was bad for the customer and bad for business in response to software for VR I believe.
The Rift can use Steam VR and can do some form of headset tracking at launch. I doubt the room scale experience would be very good with just one camera for headset tracking and no controller tracking. Not sure if there will be support for other input methods such as a controller even if the headset can be tracked somewhat via room scale. It'll be a subpar experience with the Rift until they release Touch at least.
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It's not crazy at all. It took them 6 years to make HL2, which was just a PC game, also, it was just a shooter. Think about that before moving on the the next point which is they did not have the Vive for 6 years. 6 years ago they had nothing at all. The train got rolling 4 years ago, and they did not have any idea what they would end up with.
When they did know, call it 2 years ago (and that'd be rounding up), they didn't instantly know how to use it! They would have to play around with it first.
This is what we're seeing: experiments. Everything they learned and want to share with other developers (so they don't have to learn it the hard way) and just normal people (so you can have an idea of what crazy stuff is possible). I am very excited to see it.
I am sure by now they have decided on a game to make, but there is no way Valve was ever going to get any VR game into an advanced enough state to show off this year, when they could only plausibly have started on it last year. Let alone have it ready for launch!-
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How is it batshit crazy to think that a company like HTC, who has been next to death for a while now, would expect their partner to have a strong launch title to help get a leg up on a well funded competitor at launch. I am sure the CEO of HTC said "nah let's just wing it with some indie games, that'll be a safe bet against facebooks oculus studio"...
Almost all my friends are working on various VR projects right now. I ask them the same questions I post here and they all wonder the same things. I post about it here and you show up like fucking beetle juice to tell me how dumbo my thoughts are.
And listen to you, listing all these times when they may have started things, do you work at Valve or HTC? How do you know anything?
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the same is true of consoles. The console makers eat that cost/risk by doing first party development to help bootstrap the platform.
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GDC didn't start yet tho
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I knew it!
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