{"id":95681,"date":"2019-06-25T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/345513"},"modified":"2019-06-25T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:22:00","slug":"valve-launches-vr-portal-spinoff-aperture-hand-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/valve-launches-vr-portal-spinoff-aperture-hand-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>Update:<\/strong>&nbsp;An earlier version of this story mistakenly&nbsp;referred to <em>Aperture Hand Lab<\/em> as the &#8220;flagship&#8221; title Valve teased alongside the Valve Index reveal, and has since been corrected.)<\/p>\n<p>Valve and Cloudhead Games have launched&nbsp;<em>Aperture Hand Lab<\/em>, a VR-based spinoff of Valve\u2019s <em>Portal<\/em> series intended to teach VR newbies the ins and outs of the Index\u2019s offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The company took a similar approach with the short <em>Portal<\/em>-themed VR game <em>The Lab<\/em> it launched alongside the HTC Vive in 2016 as well. This time around, <em>Aperture Hand Lab<\/em> was developed by <em>Call of the Starseed<\/em> dev Cloudhead Games, with Valve credited as its publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The VR title can be played with any SteamVR compatible headset, including the Valve Index and the HTC Vive,&nbsp;though, as pointed out by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/cloudhead-valve-aperture-hand-lab-index\/\">UploadVR<\/a>,&nbsp;Valve Index controllers are required to play since they offer additional finger tracking over other SteamVR friendly&nbsp;controllers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrdconf.com\/attend\/passes.php?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_xrdc_x_x-xrdc19\"><em><strong>Register now for XRDC 2019, the premier AR\/VR\/MR event for devs!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Update:&nbsp;An earlier version of this story mistakenly&nbsp;referred to Aperture Hand Lab as the &#8220;flagship&#8221; title Valve teased alongside the Valve Index reveal, and has since been corrected.) Valve and Cloudhead Games have launched&nbsp;Aperture Hand Lab, a VR-based spinoff of Valve\u2019s Portal series intended to teach VR newbies the ins and outs of the Index\u2019s offerings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95681","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\/95681","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=95681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}