Tested: SteamVR Game Demos at Valve! 

Instead of Will leaving Tested, I think Tested should focus more on VR, like Will is doing. Such an exciting field is only going to grow.

What happens in VR, stays in VR.

I had so much hope for Gabe to show

I would like to see a head to head comparison of Oculus vs Vive

watching these old videos about the vive while I finally have mine after 3 years is fucking amazing it gets me hyped for something I already have and its also interesting to see what went into it

got to try out the Vive last week. It was pretty damn impressive. The tracking is brilliant.

I hope replacing locomotion with teleportation isn't something everyone will do. I have no problem with the normal FPS type of game in VR and that is something I want to be a thing in the future. I played through half of HL2 in VR with the Rift DK2 and Razer Hydra in one sitting and had no problems and seeing how the commercial headsets will be far superior as well as having native support in games rather than a dirty hack of a 10 year old game will make it an even more comfortable experience.

I wonder how the body motion tracking works in a multi player game. if you look around... does the wole body move?

how about the visual quality of the goggles. resolution, frame rates and movement lag? all VR goggles i have tried, have had these issues.

So. Is it mature enough to use for gaming. I fly combat simulators, do I have to use the vr sticks? And could one replicate a 3d mouse so I could just point at what I need to click on? Which is better for Sim games?

What was it like to be in the same building as the great one ?

How much will this cost when it comes out? i have the oculus dk1 and would like an upgrade :)

Is it possible to use without a wire? Like using Bluetooth?

Anyone notice the virtual wands in Chunks? I would not be surprised if that is what the final production units look like.

When are they gonna come out with the VR gloves?

Will, if you have a devkit vive are you going to create a dedicated holodeck room in your house? or have you already?

Hey I thought WIll was done with Tested! So happy to see you back :D

they should make it to were the remotes will put a resistive force against your hands when they touch an object so it feels like your touching it.

So was this headset the same as your devkit? Didn't catch that. Like the screen and everything? Would love to know as soon as you hear anything about a new prototype or consumer ver :)

I don't like the idea of locomotion and teleportation in all games which will require lots of movement in say fps or open world games. I would prefer the option for standard control scheme to move with a stick / pad. Sure, i might get a little motion sickness but I can deal with that and it will get less and less every time I use VR.

i love how the tnt blocks have 'lol' on them ^^

OMG I want that TF2 medic figure!!!!

So ready!

Ayy, it's the Cow Mangler.

For a second I was like: "why the fuck does this developer have a valve in their office" But only for a second though.

I don't see any desks with wheels on them >:(

Funny no one said, "THIRD!" That might be because the video features Valve, and they famously have difficulty counting up to three.

Both of you have glasses. How well did it work with the VR set?

Not sure I'm going to want to get this without a omni treadmill, not to keen on the teleportation system or the other game designs that limits these vr games.. Guess we'll see how it turns out soon enough.

Kind of crazy how fast the technology is moving forward lol

So my concern is I have chronic migraines. The 3DS screen (of course depth 3d turn on) makes my ears feel like their bleeding after ten minutes. 3D at movie theaters I have to periodically take off the glasses and close my eyes for a while before I go back in. I imagine this thing would be a living nightmare as far pain goes. Because the VR experience is overwhelmingly positive, Is it worth it if that is the case?

Chunks looks interesting as a creative toy. I would like to see their solution for a full survival style game.

I've been following Tested VR stuff for a couple months. Is the Hardware developing faster then the Software or both are in tangent in the developing process?

I wonder if they asked about HL3 while they were there

I agree with you both. The only situation which I think it'd be applicable is in a cockpit of sorts; like Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, or even Gran Turismo. But the latter less so; it reminds me of those who want immersion in Euro Truck Sim, but won't just go out and get a real job in trucking.

I still think that adding a Nunchuk (Wii) like controller for the second hand with a controll stick to move would still be a feasable thing.

Man, VR is sooo exciting

3:34 icon says "funhaus" funhaus has been to valve? I have to see that.

Nice review, but I wish they would have addressed the basic look of the game. In the footage above, it looks quite detailed, which is in contrast with so many retro vr experiences. I would be curious as to how well resolution holds up compared with Bullet Train and other big-budget studio efforts.

seems like if you are just sitting and had foot pedals you could move around. double tap the pedal to run. press both pedals to jump.

It looks great, I have been using a DK2 and VR is the future for SIM and FPS games. VR sickness will stop a lot of people from using these head sets, I have a cast Iron stomach and have never got sick from any type of movement including a couple of flights in an Extra EA-200 pulling 8G's, where a couple of stages on Dirt Rally made me pull a whitey

I had a chance to try out HTC Vive on Poznań Game Arena. I was waiting for 3 hours to play around with it for 10 minutes, but it was worth every second of standing in that god damn line. I wish they had Hover Junkers or Portal demo playable.

I am soo excited for VR. I really hope it doesn't end up how 3D did. (Although I still love to play games/watch films in 3D).

I like how Norm doesn't have the wrist straps on.

What should I get a degree in to work on virtual reality software developement?

Nice SHURE SRH1540 headphones :)

0:22 OH SHIT I've visited this room in VR! It's the secret level in the "lab" game It feels so weird!

Glad to see companies actually paving the way for my fantasies to come true :D.

Cause everyone has an empty room to stand in to play games.. The sense I get with Vive is that the games you are basically always static (within the confines of space you're standing in). Who plays Minecraft to teleport between places? you want to walk and discover things along the way etc. Same with that FPS they showed.

Anyone else seen that funhaus.png on the desktop of the pc? :D

I've gotten the chance to actually do some development with a friend's Vive dev kit, and it really changes the way you work, not just the way you play the game. You really need to hop in and out of the game, and pair programming works really well because you can have someone "jacked in" to provide live feedback for how things feel in terms of scale and position. This is one of the reasons why built-for-VR content will be SO much better than ports of old content. You really, really need the scale and position of objects to be spot on, or else your brain complains - that door is a little too tall and too narrow, that person has wrong proportions, that table is too tall, that chair is too short. Game developers currently don't need to worry too much about a lot of these things - as long as the game world is consistent, it's good enough. Not so with VR, though.

First glimpse I thought it was going to be a new series of Mythbusters... :)

I wonder what would happen if the same interest, research and enthusiasm were applied to say...space travel. Outside the field of research the whole commercial VR thing is an extravagance.

Oculus Rift DK2 vs. SteamVR? :o

Valve/Steam can do all this but haven't figured out how to answer an email...

maybe put treadmills on the edges.. that way you can delete the teleport feature and keep moving in the world!

Anyone else think it was Adam Savage in the thumbnail? Remarkable resemble.

why don't they add hand trackers in the from the head gear leaving our arms free to grab objects in the game and have gloves that simulate the person grabbing and holding all world solid matter from game using nano electromagnetic tech, also have fans that blow in face when any adrenaline moments arise.

Who's that TF2 Character behind them? AT 1:10

a game like black and white. or a new black and white (fingers crossed) would be really cool for VR considering your a god

were is Gaben?

this makes me think that we need microphones to let people talk into the game. the brightly colored zombie shooting gallery (which DIDN'T ever have zombies come from all directions? the hosts just wished it would?) got me thinking: after all these shooting galleries, what shooting gallery would I want to see? which led me to think about movies with great shooting sequences. which reminded me that True Romance is pretty much my favorite movie of all time, and it has a lot of shooting. but making a shooting gallery out of scenes from true romance would be hollow - unless you could somehow talk. I'm picturing a level where you go to drexyl's Detroid drug den to get Alabama's suitcase, and there are all these sleazy folks and hot ladies around you. but the core of the "level" is to keep your attention on drexyl while he talks. maybe he comments if you look around to check what's on nearby TVs. and finally when the attack comes and you start shooting everything up, it'd be weird if you were just silent. you'd want to be shouting ("I SAID OPEN YOUR FUCKIN' EYES!"). anywho. random anecdote. I know voice rec is hard, and somehow not moving forward as fast as all this other tech. but. i think it'll add a huge amount to the full immersion in VR experiences. (now i'm thinking of dialogue trees where you just talk, where you trigger NPC responses by incorporating one of three celarly visible words into whatever sentence you want to form.)

The TNT in Chunks says LOL instead of TNT. XD

you guys should try out @streeslevelzero +brandonJla 's Vr Game hover junkers

Would be cool to see a modern rendition of the power glove to go hand in hand, I'm sorry that was a pun, with the various VR hardware a lot of companies are looking into. Maybe as a third party accessory to be used for multiple brands to make it more feasible and accessible. The potential is there and could be better realized today more than it ever could've back in the late 80s. Heck a lot of diy enthusiasts have modified them to do cool stuff like the guys that make Robot Chicken to help with the set.

i wont spin my head 95 times a minute

That could possibly make for an amazing Attack on Titan VR game

doesn't look very immersive with the teleporting

did anyone else notice that the TNT said lol?

One thing I keep think is that the space you are demoing in is bigger than any of the rooms of my home let alone empty space in my home. Another is that I need a walking stick to stand, are these games not going to be accessable to people who need to be seated to play a game?

cool

that's why i love valve products

what's funny is the fact that our kids will one day see this and laugh.

We create virtual reality and we use it to play with fake legos.

Waiting for the Artificial Reality.

I used to play with mouse and keyboard... i'm old.

Valve's office comes to be as awesome as Half-Life

I love Will's stupid looking face in the thumbnails

UGH roller coaster tycoon!!

Now that Mythbusters is cancelled will Adam be more of a presence on Tested? Possibly after the final season has aired? Take over from Will as co-host?

I clicked on the video because I thought I noticed Jesse Cox's beard in the thumbnail. Still a good video though :P

Waiting for him to smash one of those controllers to bits against the wall.

Those controllers though...

at 6:24 there are two wills

are there any adult apps out yet? a gentlemen's club demo? like the club in gta would be ridiculous

They played hl3

I see a lot of funny youtube videos coming where people are destroying their living rooms :-)

6:20 Will found his twin?

that looks awesome imagine cs go on VR xD

You know, VR stuff is nice and surely does a lot to help the immersion, but is the standing with the wireless controllers really a good idea? Like, it sounds to me it's gonna be plagued by similar problems like Kinect - people being tired of standing and waving their hands for too long making it unfeasible for hardcore gamers (who'd want longer playsessions than half an hour), and casual gamers won't invest a shitton of money into an experimental hardware just for playing video games.

Did you guys meet gaben?

BRO 👊🏼

I think it's a good tech, but it won't work because many people won't have enough space to use it properly, like it was the case with Kinect.

Cog had six spokes, two men spinning it. 6/2. Half life 3 confirmed.

Fruit Ninja ending ;)

why does that guy that has black hair always look away when he nods

Go to channel ''NODE'' they really showcase it, and are making their own game.

If "teleportation" is the solution to the movement problem in VR, I seriously doubt the future of VR at all

wow

So weird he keeps confusing all this for Kinect.