Valve - Source 2 Portal VR demo at GDC

Valve announced the Source two engine and started demoing its VR headset at the Game Developers Conference. It would make sense that they would also introduce a new game that would use their new engine tech, but null was revealed. They did nevertheless demo a VR Discontinuity experience, congenital on the Source 2 engine, and using both the headset and the motion controllers. It should be noted all the same that this does non point to a new Portal beingness in evolution, or whatever other title for that matter, as the demo was only for the purpose of demonstrating the VR technology of the Valve/HTC Vive. It does however give us a glimpse equally to the incredible visual fidelity and capabilities of the Source two engine.

Despite the apparent depression quality of the video, the potential of the Source two engine is quite obvious. We can only imagine what a new Portal title would exist like, and even the highly anticipated Half-Life 3. This does non in any way indicate that the aforementioned titles are in development, but we can certainly dream.

The Valve and HTC VR feel has left some corking impressions

In that location take been some very positive impressions of the VR experience offered past the Valve/HTC unit, including IGN's Mitch Dyer, who talks about his feel. There's certainly an immense amount of anticipation for Valve's titles, and whether they could be coming or not, remains a mystery. If Valve have opted out of developing their own games, it would exist unfortunate.

Valve talked about the Source 2 engine stating:

"This combined with recent announcements by Epic and Unity, will assistance continue the PCs authorization every bit the premiere content authoring platform."

"The value of a platform like the PC is how much it increases the productivity of those who use the platform."

said Valve's Jay Stelly

"With Source 2, our focus is increasing creator productivity. Given how important user-generated content is becoming,

Source 2 is designed not for merely the professional developer, merely enabling gamers themselves to participate in the creation and evolution of their favorite games.

"We will exist making Source ii bachelor for gratuitous to content developers. This combined with contempo announcements past Ballsy and Unity will assistance proceed the PCs potency as the premiere content authoring platform."

Valve, also confirmed that at that place will besides be a Vulkan compatible version of the new Source ii engine, the new API from the Khronos Group, and OpenGL successor, emphasizing the API's ability to enable developers to get the near out of the latest graphics hardware.