Virtual reality is more and more widespread and anyone who has tried it knows that it is a radically different experience from what we are used to. The technology continues growing little by little and one of the great advances, beyond its power, is to launch glasses without cables. Valve may be working on a new wireless model code call “Deckard”.
This possibility has come to light after the analysis of several movements by Valve in a public way, as data that is hidden in SteamVR or the patents that the company has been registering. The youtuber Brad Lynch discovered references to these new glasses, but the interesting thing is that the Ars Technica medium has confirmed with its sources that the information is “legitimate”.
It seems that these glasses would have a new internal menu from Valve and new SteamVR options, called “prism” and “standalone system layer”, although no more is known. This device would have some own capacity from prosecution and you would not have to use a PC. This, added to that word “standalone”, used in Oculus Quest, are clues that point to some glasses without wires that work by themselves.
It is important to make it clear that these virtual reality glasses they don’t have to go out to the market. Although it may be a logical step, we will have to wait to see if this type of device sees the light one day or is simply part of Valve’s internal tests. We think that, at the moment, it is difficult to see something like this, considering that the company is overturned with Steam Deck.
Valve worked on various virtual reality glasses
According to sources at Ars Technica, Valve has been working on two glasses: one closer to Valve Index (connected to a PC) and another to the Oculus Quest style, which could be these “Deckard”. Be that as it may, it seems that the company keep experimenting with virtual reality, something that does not surprise us at all, because he already said that he would continue to bet on it and also on the success of Half-Life Alyx.