Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality (roadtovr.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday March 7, 2016 @08:56AM from the look-deep-into-my-portals dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Although I'm sure we'd all love to see Half-Life in virtual reality, Valve has been focusing on its Portal universe for SteamVR. The company announced today a "compilation of new VR experiments" called 'The Lab', which will be set inside one of Aperture Science's "pocket universes". One of Valve's earlier VR demos, 'Aperture Robot Repair', had players interact with Atlas, one of the robots from Portal 2 (with a brief GLaDOS cameo). The company says they'll be showing off The Lab at GDC 2016 next week and that they'll release it for free to SteamVR this spring.

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Motion sickness. Motion sickness everywhere. by blueshift_1 · 2016-03-07 09:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

The biggest problem is that portal is disorienting with normal play... much less with full VR immersion. I would expect sickness everywhere.
Way to go Valve! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-07 09:15 · Score: 0, Insightful

Make a game for the 3% of people who'll buy a game for VR out of the 2% of people who'll actually buy a headset for VR for the 4% of PCs that will actually be able to support VR and not be an utter disappointment while you let your biggest game franchise (Half Life, if you forgot what made you a household name and made Steam spread so quickly) rot as your fanbase is practically breaking down the door for the content.
WTF?