Valve -- the company behind Portal, Team Fortress 2 and the game distribution hub Steam -- will show off its own virtual reality hardware, SteamVR, at GDC 2015 next week. This comes despite Valve's previous insistence that it had no plans to release any such hardware. We had our doubts about that anyway, after Valve held virtual reality demos at Steam Dev Days in January 2014. Developers who got their hands on the company's early VR experiments were impressed by their holodeck-levels of immersion. Beam us up, Valve.
Valve will offer demonstrations of SteamVR at GDC, along with a look at the new, improved Steam Controller and new living room devices. These are all part of the Steam Machines initiative, Valve's plan to compete with gaming consoles by licensing its own Linux-based operating system, SteamOS, to PC manufacturers, meant to be sold in a package with the Steam Controller. Valve expects Steam Machines to launch this year.
Source: Steam
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