Valve will show off its Steam Machines, the “final” version of its Steam Controller and virtual reality hardware at Game Developers Conference in March, it said today.
On its website, Valve said that this “powerful new family of entertainment devices” would be released this year.
The company behind the Steam gaming platform has been promising an entry into the game hardware business for some time now, showing off a variety of Steam Machines—custom-built PCs meant to run Steam in users’ living rooms, bringing the PC out of the bedroom and taking a potshot at consoles’ dominance.
Additionally, Valve has continued to tweak its Steam Controller, a gamepad meant to let you play mouse-controlled PC games while sitting on the couch. The first iteration had two sliding touch pads instead of joysticks. Later versions had joysticks added back in.
But the biggest news has got to be Steam showing off what would seem to be a consumer-focused virtual reality device. “With the introduction of SteamVR hardware, Valve is actively seeking VR content creators,” it wrote on its website about the announcement. It invites developers and publishers to sign up for a behind-closed-doors demonstration of the SteamVR hardware system.
No word yet on whether the press or public will be invited to see SteamVR.
Valve added that “new living room devices,” seemingly distinct from Steam Machines, would also be shown at GDC.
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