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Valve Ports Team Fortress 2 for VR Headsets, Likely Oculus Rift, More Details...
Valve, the famous developer who has demonstrated a particular interest in virtual reality, has ported the ever-popular Team Fortress 2 for use with VR headsets. This confirmation comes from the Game...
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Team Fortress 2 to Get Oculus Rift ‘Virtual Reality Mode’ (Update: Confirmed,...
Valve Software’s hugely popular, free-to-play online FPS, Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is to get Oculus Rift support! Oculus Rift users will also be gifted a unique in-game hat. A news release provided by an...
View ArticleJoe Ludwig from Valve speaking @ Ignite – The second coming of Virtual...
Speaking at the Ignite: Seattle event back in May, Joe Ludwig, Programmer at Valve Software (Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2) delivers a brief, irreverent summary of the history and current state of...
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Valve to Demonstrate Prototype VR HMD and Talk Changes to Steam to “Support...
It looks like Valve is ready to take the gloves off at Steam Dev Days 2014. Two talks to be given at the event will include a demonstration of Valve’s secret prototype VR HMD that is “capable of...
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Watch VR Presentations from Michael Abrash, Palmer Luckey, and Joe Ludwig at...
Last month’s Steam Dev Days saw developer Valve committing to and promoting virtual reality in a big way. Now all of the virtual reality talks from the conference are available for your viewing...
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Valve’s Joe Ludwig to Talk ‘OpenVR’ and ‘Lighthouse’ Hardware Partners at...
Valve Software Programmer Joe Ludwig, aka one of the brains behind Team Fortress 2’s ‘VR mode’ and SteamVR, will be giving a talk at this year’s SVVR Expo on the company’s SteamVR APIs, otherwise known...
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SVVR Expo 2015 Line-Up Takes Shape – $100 Discount for Road to VR Readers
The 2015 Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference and Expo is just around the corner, so we’ve taken a look at what is shaping up to be a packed schedule. We’ve also got $100 discount codes for all...
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Valve’s Lighthouse Base Station in Action, Inner Workings Explained
Some of the inner workings of Valve’s Lighthouse base station, an infrared laser-emitting device used for ‘room scale’ positional tracking, were revealed today by Valve developer Joe Ludwig. Ludwig’s...
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Valve’s Joe Ludwig Reps Lighthouse With a Shirt You Wish You Had
Developers love their shirts and Valve is no exception. Joe Ludwig, a Valve programmer who has been closely involved with the SteamVR project, was spotted today rocking out a shirt with an exploded...
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SteamVR to Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within “a Few Months”
Valve is planning to introduce beta versions of its SteamVR platform for Mac OSX and Linux users within a few months. One thing’s for sure, if you’re a PC user wanting to indulge in a spot of immersive...
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Valve Confirms New Vive Base Station Coming This Year
Late last year at Steam Dev Days, Valve talked about a new and improved design for the SteamVR Tracking / Lighthouse base stations, a core component of the Vive’s tracking technology. Now the company...
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Closeup: Next-generation SteamVR Tracking Base Station is “Better in every way”
As evidenced by the decision to begin selling SteamVR Tracking base stations directly later this year, Valve aims to continue driving development of the technology. A look at the latest engineering...
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Valve Talks ‘OpenXR’, the Newly Revealed Branding for Khronos Group’s...
Valve’s Joe Ludwig talks about the latest updates on the Khronos Group’s VR standardization process that is now being called “OpenXR.” Ludwig says that OpenXR is still primarily creating an open and...
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Valve Brings Custom Keybinding to SteamVR, Letting VR Apps Support All...
SteamVR includes de facto support for several VR devices, although sometimes games just don’t support a particular controller—or if they do, it may not be configured properly. To remedy this, Valve has...
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Valve VR Programmer Aims to Extend SteamVR with AR-like Utilities, Launches...
Long-time Valve VR programmer Joe Ludwig, working in his own capacity, is building an open-source platform to bring AR-like utilities into virtual reality. The project, called Aardvark, is something of...
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