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Valve Index - Specifications released.

KlodsBrik
Expert Trustee
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Luciferous
Consultant
Is it May yet ?

pyroth309
Visionary


Is it May yet ?


(champing at the bit if you don't get the reference)


kevinw729
Honored Visionary
It really seems that Valve is going for "Valve time" on this announcement and also on the whole placement of Index into the VR scene - it is as if they want to sidestep the current VR community and engender their own following.
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bigmike20vt
Visionary
Valve do everything valvetime. I doubt it is because they are not interested in making money off the current generation, they are not a company for turning down anyone's money.

The cynic in me suggests they announce regardless of ready just to try to pee on other companies announcements, ie knuckles shown off to try to dampen touch and now index announced to detract from rift s.

At least it looks like we won't have a 3 year wait for index like we did for knuckles
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pyroth309
Visionary


Valve do everything valvetime. I doubt it is because they are not interested in making money off the current generation, they are not a company for turning down anyone's money.

The cynic in me suggests they announce regardless of ready just to try to pee on other companies announcements, ie knuckles shown off to try to dampen touch and now index announced to detract from rift s.

At least it looks like we won't have a 3 year wait for index like we did for knuckles


Yea, since the start, Valve has always taken their time. I think Valve were intending to release knuckles for the Vive to give touch some competition but since everyone ripped it for using the same trackpads as the Vive they changed the design for EV3. I think at some point during that development they decided to just hold them for the Index. I'm curious if there will be any significant changes to the retail version from EV3.

RuneSR2
Grand Champion
Sometimes I wonder if I'll live long enough to experience Half-life 3.

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

pyroth309
Visionary

RuneSR2 said:

Sometimes I wonder if I'll live long enough to experience Half-life 3.


I think they're scared to release a Half-life 3 at this point because of the insane expectations it would have. They tried to develop it at least twice that I know of and scrapped it because they didn't think it was good enough. 

nalex66
MVP
MVP
They’ve said that they want a big technological leap for HL3 so it can make an impact. I’ve said often over the years that VR was just such a vehicle for the game, and that it would be called Half-Life 3D. I usually get booed offstage.

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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RuneSR2
Grand Champion
Today's episode of The Index Hype TV-show B) - introducing (more speculation about) the games:

https://youtu.be/oSOgTYblVg4

Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD
"Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"

inovator
Consultant

RuneSR2 said:

Today's episode of The Index Hype TV-show B) - introducing (more speculation about) the games:

https://youtu.be/oSOgTYblVg4


Hype and speculation = fun. Thanks for the video