Valve today confirmed to Road to VR that the company is planning a full reveal of Index on May 1st, accompanied by pre-order availability of both the headset and Knuckles controllers. The company says ...

“High-fidelity virtual reality” is the tagline Valve’s gone with, and that’s certainly supported by the price tag. Whereas Oculus has chosen to aim for mass-market appeal in its second generation, ...

Valve Index is joining the already crowded landscape for virtual reality headsets, and the company powering Steam believes their high-fidelity solution will be enticing to VR enthusiasts. Valve ...

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If you didn’t get a chance to pre-order Valve Index yet, the company’s high-end PC VR headset, you may have a fair bit of waiting to do. While the first shipments are set to arrive for the June 28th ...

Until about six months ago, I would’ve said the HTC Vive was Valve’s virtual reality headset. It wasn’t, of course—merely the product of a mutually beneficial partnership. But with the VR market ...

BELLEVUE, Washington—The Valve Index, a new virtual reality system from the creators of beloved video game series like Half-Life and Portal and the mega-popular Steam game store, is an aspirational ...

The Index is the most feature-rich headset I've ever seen: It features two LCD panels running at a sharp 1,440 by 1,600 pixels each. While that might seem like a downgrade from the OLED panels we've ...

Valve’s next-generation virtual reality unit, known as Index, is an impressive plaything with a fistful of design advances beyond the old Vive. It’s also expensive, and lacking — for now — any ...

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