Valve Wants Half-life: Alyx To Work Well Standalone On Steam Frame

When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve’s caller Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; acknowledgment to nan Frame’s dedicated wireless adapter and a cool instrumentality Valve calls “foveated streaming,” I didn’t observe immoderate latency arsenic I explored an business building and fought immoderate caput crabs.

But nan Frame besides has an Arm spot inside, meaning it tin tally games locally. While I didn’t get to trial playing Half-Life: Alyx that way, based connected comments Valve gave to different publications, it seems for illustration Valve is optimistic that it mightiness beryllium capable to make nan crippled tally good erstwhile played standalone.

“Half-Life: Alyx is simply a awesome acquisition erstwhile streamed from a PC to Steam Frame, and we are looking into making it a bully standalone acquisition arsenic well,” Valve told Digital Foundry. And according to UploadVR, “Valve representatives deliberation they tin get Half-Life: Alyx moving performant successful standalone, but they’re not promising it yet and it’s clear there’s still a batch for them to do.”

Fingers crossed Valve finds a measurement to make it happen. I’ve really ne'er played Half-Life: Alyx, and if I get a Steam Frame, I’d decidedly want to effort playing it standalone.