Valve's proprietary VR headset 'Valve Index' will start booking in May 2019 with a 5-finger recognition VR controller



On March 29, 2019, we found that

Valve was launching a site that featured a VR headset called the 'Valve Index.' According to ArsTechnica, who discovered the site, the Valve Index will be released in May 2019, and it is consistent with the information from Valve's VR headset, which was reported in November 2018. Also, a store page on Steam was discovered on April 1 and it is expected that the controller 'Knuckles' that has been developed in Valve before will be released at the same time.

Valve Index
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/valve_index/



Valve's Long-Rumored VR headset is finally real: The Valve Index, coming in May | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/20019/03/valve-index-is-the-game-makers-brand-new-vr-headset-slated-for-may-2019/

Only the product photos and the date 'May 2019' are on the published site, and there is no other information. However, according to the content that UploadVR reported in November 2018, the Valve Index has a wider field of view than the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset of 135 degrees, and the resolution is 2880 × 1600 dots · 615ppi for both eyes It corresponds to Vive Pro .



Also, ArsTechnica points out that the six dots at the bottom of the Valve Index may be for using the HTC Vive infrared tracker or for capturing the movement of the headset without a webcam or sensor .



Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve in 2017 'and Unity, Valve has created its own three of the VR game using the Source 2Engine' and

announced to have been, Valve has its own hardware Finally, it is possible to launch the VR industry in earnest.

On April 1, 2019, Wario64 discovered the Valve Index store page on Steam on Twitter. This store page can not be viewed from Japan, but the screen shot was published by Wario64.

According to it, the reservation will be started from May 2019 and shipping is scheduled for June 15, 2019. The most characteristic of the product photos displayed on the store page is the open headphones fixed on both sides of the headset, 'Immersive'. Although the price is unknown, the recommended PC specs indicated support of 4 cores or more CPU, NVIDIA GTX 1070 or more, DisplayPort 1.2 or USB 3.0 or more.



He also found a controller store page, but it was not possible to check the appearance of the product image as it did not appear on the store page.



As for controllers, Valve is currently in development, and it is expected that a full version of VR controller 'Knuckles' that can track all five fingers will be released.

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