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Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows and Linux, with support for most PC-compatible VR headsets. Players control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a superweapon belonging to the alien Combine before the events of Half-Life 2.
While VR hardware and games grew modestly for the remainder of the 2010s, Half-Life: Alyx, a full VR game developed by Valve and released in 2020, was considered the killer application for VR games. The advent of VR in gaming marks a significant milestone in the quest for fully immersive digital experiences.
While Valve had anticipated supply for many of those that had ordered the Index in time for the March 2020 release of Half-Life: Alyx, the COVID-19 pandemic slowed production, which left Valve with a reduced number of units available on the release date. [19] As of January 2022, 14.36% of the VR units connected to Steam are Valve Index sets.
Half-Life VR may refer to: Half-Life Alyx, 2020 video game; Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware This page was last edited on 8 October 2024, at 14:49 (UTC). ...
They built prototypes using their various intellectual properties such as Portal, and found that Half-Life best suited VR. [73] Their flagship VR game, Half-Life: Alyx, entered production using Valve's new Source 2 engine in 2016, [74] with the largest team in Valve's history, including members of Campo Santo, a studio Valve acquired in 2018 ...
The Quest 3 uses the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2, a system-on-chip manufactured by Qualcomm and based on their Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flagship mobile phone SoC, [9] which Meta has touted as having more than twice the raw graphics (GPU) performance of the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 used by the Quest 2 and other similar standalone headsets. [10] [11]
When it came down to show Half-Life 2 for the first time at E3, it was part of our internal communication to refer to the "Source" engine vs. the "Goldsource" engine, and the name stuck. Source was developed part-by-part from this fork onwards, slowly replacing GoldSrc in Valve's internal projects [ 3 ] and, in part, explaining the reasons ...
Half-Life: Hostile Takeover, an expansion pack for Half-Life developed by 2015, Inc, was cancelled in 2000. In 2001, Sierra, the publisher of the original Half-Life, canceled a port for Dreamcast after Sega announced its discontinuation. After releasing Half-Life 2: Episode Two in 2007, Valve struggled to settle on a direction for a new Half ...