News Valve Releases SteamVR 2.0 With New UI

[Admin]

Valve released SteamVR 2.0 widely, including new UI and features found in Steam for PC and the Steam Deck.

Valve Releases SteamVR 2.0 With New UI : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

> Updated keyboard with support for dual-cursor typing, new languages, emojis, and themes

AH, YES! FINALLY!

Man... I need to unpack and setup the room for VR soon, so I can check out the new stuff. Everything in the new version sounds so friggen good.

Regards.

 

[Blastomonas]

Valve released SteamVR 2.0 widely, including new UI and features found in Steam for PC and the Steam Deck.

Valve Releases SteamVR 2.0 With New UI : Read more

Still on the original Vive from 2018. Would love to update it at some point, but everything VR still seems overpriced. I had expected the prices to come down quicker than what they have, especially the accessories.

The steam UI update is very welcome though.

 

[brandonjclark]

If you're old enough to remember, like me, you know that Valve did something ingenious when they released HL2.

HL2, at the time, might've been the most anticipated PC game. Valve said, "You wanna play HL2? NP, just pay us for the software AND DOWNLOAD THIS NEW PLATFORM WE CALL STEAM."

~Don't tell me about how there were games like CS and others that came out before it on Steam, I know, I was one of the first users.

The masses bought into it, many reluctantly, and Valve changed how PC games were sold, delivered and managed.

Much like Microsoft did with licensing it's Windows instead of outright selling it to manufacturers, it was a homerun decision.

Fast-forward to today and I think Valve has this same chance again.

All they have to do is say, "You wanna play HL3? NP, just pay us for the software AND BUY THIS AWESOME NEW VR HEADSET BECAUSE HL3 IS VR ONLY."


Agree?

 

[ekio]

Still on the original Vive from 2018. Would love to update it at some point, but everything VR still seems overpriced. I had expected the prices to come down quicker than what they have, especially the accessories.

The steam UI update is very welcome though.

Pff. An oculus quest 2 that can connect to steam very well cost 300 dollars. How is that overpriced? You want it for free or what ?

 

[fireaza]

If you're old enough to remember, like me, you know that Valve did something ingenious when they released HL2.

HL2, at the time, might've been the most anticipated PC game. Valve said, "You wanna play HL2? NP, just pay us for the software AND DOWNLOAD THIS NEW PLATFORM WE CALL STEAM."

~Don't tell me about how there were games like CS and others that came out before it on Steam, I know, I was one of the first users.

The masses bought into it, many reluctantly, and Valve changed how PC games were sold, delivered and managed.

Much like Microsoft did with licensing it's Windows instead of outright selling it to manufacturers, it was a homerun decision.

Fast-forward to today and I think Valve has this same chance again.

All they have to do is say, "You wanna play HL3? NP, just pay us for the software AND BUY THIS AWESOME NEW VR HEADSET BECAUSE HL3 IS VR ONLY."


Agree?

They sorta did that for Half-Life: Alyx. Only, that game was developed from the beginning to be a VR game instead of being a non-VR game that was switched to VR-exclusive. They also didn't make it exclusive to the Valve Index either, as much as people beleve it is. Though buying the Valve Index does get you a free copy of the game.

Pff. An oculus quest 2 that can connect to steam very well cost 300 dollars. How is that overpriced? You want it for free or what ?

This! The Quest 2 honestly does everything the original Vive does, but better and with features it doesn't have. It also costs less than a modern game console, and SIGNIFIGANTLY less than the Vive did at launch. As someone who owned a Vive at launch, pretty much any VR headset from the past few years will be a significant upgrade to the Vive. Even just getting a headset that uses RGB stripe subpixels to fix the horrible screendoor that the Vive suffered from would be worth the upgrade.