Valve’s Steam VR Developer Showcase: A Dozen HTC Vive Titles

[kcarbotte]

Valve’s Steam VR Developer Showcase took place this week, and the company seemingly spared no expense to make it a success. The company had a dozen developers show off the games they are working on for the HTC Vive.

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[Gerry Allen]

Will there be a follow-up article describing experiences with the demonstrations?

 

[kcarbotte]

Will there be a follow-up article describing experiences with the demonstrations?

There have already been a few posted.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/audioshield-vr-rhythm-game-steam-vr-showcase,31096.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/budget-cuts-valve-vr-showcase,31091.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/htc-vive-virtual-reality-puzzles-steam-vr-showcase,31097.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cloudlands-vr-minigolf-htc-vive,31098.html

And there are some more to follow.

 

[Joe Black]

I want that same pattern on the walls of my future VR room.

 

[kcarbotte]

I want that same pattern on the walls of my future VR room.

The pattern on the background walls is projected from hanging projectors. The pattern on the temporary walls was interesting too.

 

[kcarbotte]

Jeeeez.... Starstruck to the point of fanboyism. I am not INTERESTED in that you got a branded pen and a beer and hoooo golly that's a nice wall and aren't you an exclusive press person?!

The content has been talked about in various articles that have been linked within this article and in the comments.

I found the event to be put together well and it looked particularly cool inside. So what? I mentioned that we got a pen and notebook, its part of describing the event. I didn't gush over it, but theres no point in hiding it either.

 

[jasonelmore]

I hope Elite Dangerous also supports the Oculus Rift. There is talk that Frontier will only be supporting the VIVE and frankly, that's inexcusable as i am a backer of the project since day 1, and the large room scale stuff does not interest me as long as there are tons of wires i can trip over.

 

[kcarbotte]

I hope Elite Dangerous also supports the Oculus Rift. There is talk that Frontier will only be supporting the VIVE and frankly, that's inexcusable as i am a backer of the project since day 1, and the large room scale stuff does not interest me as long as there are tons of wires i can trip over.

Elite Dangerous has always had the intention of supporting Oculus Rift.

Those rumors last week were absolutely false.
https://twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/690530826346434560

Frontier Developments announced in the summer that it was halting work on Rift support while Oculus worked out the final runtime software. This happened shortly after Oculus declared it wouldn't be supporting runtime versions more than a generation back.
Public support for the headset was halted until the final release, but there will be updates once Frontier has the final sdk and runtime in-hand.