Everyone’s simply fumbling their keyboards right now, posting tweets and retailer updates they’re not meant to. Earlier this night, the Steam product web page for Valve’s upcoming VR headset, the Index, went up early and was screen-capped by “Wario64” on Twitter. While unfinished and patchy nonetheless (even containing some Lorem Ipsum), the shop web page did have one attention-grabbing element: A June 2019 launch date. After being contacted by The Verge, Valve’s Doug Lombardi confirmed that the web page was genuine, and that the official unveiling occurs on May 1st, with the headset going up for pre-order the identical day.
There’s nothing too gorgeous or revelatory about this leak, past the truth that Valve confirmed the story inside the day. Specifically, Lombardi instructed The Verge that “The tech info on that page, while not comprehensive, is accurate”, and that whereas June isn’t set in stone, it’s what they’re concentrating on. We do know that Valve’s “Knuckles” controllers (in contrast to Oculus, they don’t chuckle) will likely be a part of the package deal and are actually boringly referred to as Valve Index Controllers. The headset helps DisplayPort 1.2 and USB 3.zero inputs, and comes with two ‘face gaskets’, slender and broad, in order that it may well match round your bonce, irrespective of how spherical it might be.
While not a monster like these new RTX-based techniques, my laptop computer is beefy sufficient to drive a VR headset. So lengthy because the RPS crew give it a thumbs up and the worth isn’t too absurd, this can be my first set of future-goggles. The really useful GPU for the Index simply occurs to be a GTX 1070 with not less than a quad core CPU, which is what I’ve. Not uncommon {hardware} nowadays, but it surely was a prohibitively costly system spec within the early days of digital actuality. Just in time for No Man’s Sky’s big free VR update, then.
While there’s no particular date or value but, pre-orders for the Index headset and controllers will likely be reside on May 1st, and Valve are concentrating on a June launch.
