Tweet
Brian Coomer at Valve says that the company is mere "days away" from releasing a VR software dev kit that will "give game makers a standard way to provide an interface for VR controllers."
The kit will allegedly be coming during the Steam Dev Days conference taking place January 14 through January 15 in Seattle. Coomer didn't say much about the development kit or provide many details, but he did shed some light on Valve's interest in VR and the Oculus Rift.
This news comes courtesy of CES 2014 and the BBC.
The kit will allegedly be coming during the Steam Dev Days conference taking place January 14 through January 15 in Seattle. Coomer didn't say much about the development kit or provide many details, but he did shed some light on Valve's interest in VR and the Oculus Rift.
"We are working with other companies right now but we have not made any specific announcements."
The kit that Valve plans to release later in January will be part of a broader software tool chest that will help give developers a standard way to control games via Steam Box, he adds.
In a bid to make it easy for game makers to get their games working on the Steam Box gadget, Valve had spent a lot of time on its own controller, so that any game played via a Steam Box thinks a player is using a keyboard and mouse whatever the actual controller happens to be.
A similar level of abstraction is going to be needed if VR headsets are going to become ubiquitous, he says.
Players do not want to have to re-configure their set-up every time they swap games.
The kit that Valve plans to release later in January will be part of a broader software tool chest that will help give developers a standard way to control games via Steam Box, he adds.
In a bid to make it easy for game makers to get their games working on the Steam Box gadget, Valve had spent a lot of time on its own controller, so that any game played via a Steam Box thinks a player is using a keyboard and mouse whatever the actual controller happens to be.
A similar level of abstraction is going to be needed if VR headsets are going to become ubiquitous, he says.
Players do not want to have to re-configure their set-up every time they swap games.
This news comes courtesy of CES 2014 and the BBC.