{"id":91130,"date":"2019-03-30T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339792"},"modified":"2019-03-30T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:56:00","slug":"valve-teases-its-own-vr-headset-the-valve-index-for-may-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/valve-teases-its-own-vr-headset-the-valve-index-for-may-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve teases its own VR headset, the Valve Index, for May reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s long-rumored VR headset has officially been unveiled, though initial details are incredibly light.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The headset itself is called the Valve Index and, outside of that, not much is officially known. Valve shared a single image to a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/valve_index\/\">new Steam page<\/a> for the VR headset that shows off the name of the device and a couple of other features.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the headset features a couple&nbsp;of cameras, likely for inside-out positional tracking, along its front and a physical slider of some sort&nbsp;along its bottom edge. The teaser page spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2019\/03\/valve-index-is-the-game-makers-brand-new-vr-headset-slated-for-may-2019\/\">Ars Technica<\/a> yesterday notes that more information will be revealed in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Valve has been a longtime proponent of virtual reality through things like its SteamVR platform, hardware like Lighthouse external trackers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320609\/Valves_updated_Knuckles_VR_controller_brings_pinpoint_fingertracking.php\">Knuckles VR controllers<\/a>, and general tools and improvements for SteamVR developer use. While the company partnered with HTC and played a significant part in bringing the HTC Vive VR headset to life, Valve had yet to launch or even announce its own-branded entry into the virtual reality race until this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt height=\"371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/valve-teases-its-own-vr-headset-the-valve-index-for-may-reveal.jpg\" width=\"646\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s long-rumored VR headset has officially been unveiled, though initial details are incredibly light.&nbsp; The headset itself is called the Valve Index and, outside of that, not much is officially known. Valve shared a single image to a new Steam page for the VR headset that shows off the name of the device and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}