Valve is slowly getting very comfortable with the idea of having a huge video screen being mounted to its face, as it was announced that the beta client of Steam is to add a “virtual reality mode” option. The latest beta version of Steam does away with the “-vr” command line option and replaces it with a button in the view menu, which only appears for those with SteamVR installed when a head-mounted display like the Oculus Rift is detected.
Virtual reality is really gaining a lot of attention and is probably going to be the next big thing in gaming. Over the year even Valve has realized this and have made virtual reality their focal point as its former head of VR joined Oculus VR’s new Seattle team around a week ago. People at Engadget think that this week, the week of the Game Developers Conference, is the time that the virtual reality scenario will take an interesting turn. Also keeping in mind that Sony will unveil its own virtual reality headset in the coming days, we’d have to say the same.
Source: Mike Suszek
