Seems Valve ditched their partnership with HTC and will be releasing their own VR headset this June. Also was confirmed to not simply be an April Fools gag by Valve.
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Originally Posted by Destuctoid
After partnering with the design conglomerate just several years ago, Valve is poised to enter the VR business in earnest with their own hardware: the "Valve Index." This was announced without warning over the weekend and details are very vague: yep, that's Valve (minus the nebulous "Valve Time," as a May 2019 release date was shared).
As The Verge points out there seems to be several wide-angle cameras to prevent any room-based bumps, as well as a slider for folks who might not adjust to VR as well as others. The longstanding wild rumor is that Half-Life 3 will be a VR experience to help sell Valve's future vision of VR (but not necessarily at launch).
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18...ly-launch-date