Comment by Orygin

3 months ago

HL3 is most likely not a VR game as Valve said they aren't working on a first party VR title (plus data mining seems to confirm). Plus they already have Alyx as the masterpiece, and it was already made with their own VR headset in mind: the Valve Index.

Maybe HLX will have some kind of VR interaction possible, as they want to push technology further with each Half life game.

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embedding-shape  3 months ago

Valve also said something like "ARM gaming won't be a thing for us for a very long time", but seems tides can change :) I wouldn't put too much weight into any publisher/developer saying what they aren't doing, even if they were working on HL3, they'd keep that under very tight wraps.

  • Orygin  3 months ago

    I mean, there are plenty of info available on the status of HL3 (code named HLX) and all point to it not being a VR title.

    Also I don't think ARM is really a thing for them, even now. They want to support running software on the headset, and sure why not enable compatibility layers to play some small games, but the end goal is clearly streaming from a PC. Maybe if some good ARM cpu hit the market they will pivot, but up until recently "ARM gaming" meant mobile phones.

    • embedding-shape  3 months ago

      > there are plenty of info available on the status of HL3 (code named HLX) and all point to it not being a VR title

      Anything besides rumors? AFAIK, there is absolutely zero official information beyond the rumor mill.

      > Also I don't think ARM is really a thing for them, even now.

      I mean, then you're just looking the other way intentionally, they're quite literally adding support for ARM now, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/codeweavers-launch-a-n... That's not something you do on a whim, it's a calculated step towards something.

      And they're clearly setting up the new VR head to both do standalone gameplay for people without PCs, and to do streaming from PC.

      None of the Steam hardware seems to have only a single use in fact, all of them are multipurpose, not sure why the VR headset should be any different, especially when what we know points to it also being multipurpose, quite explicitly so at that.

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