06-27-2019, 03:20 PM
Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/valve-launches-vr-portal-spinoff-aperture-hand-lab.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>(<strong>Update:</strong> An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to <em>Aperture Hand Lab</em> as the “flagship” title Valve teased alongside the Valve Index reveal, and has since been corrected.)</p>
<p>Valve and Cloudhead Games have launched <em>Aperture Hand Lab</em>, a VR-based spinoff of Valve’s <em>Portal</em> series intended to teach VR newbies the ins and outs of the Index’s offerings.</p>
<p>The company took a similar approach with the short <em>Portal</em>-themed VR game <em>The Lab</em> it launched alongside the HTC Vive in 2016 as well. This time around, <em>Aperture Hand Lab</em> was developed by <em>Call of the Starseed</em> dev Cloudhead Games, with Valve credited as its publisher.</p>
<p>The VR title can be played with any SteamVR compatible headset, including the Valve Index and the HTC Vive, though, as pointed out by <a href="https://www.roadtovr.com/cloudhead-valve-aperture-hand-lab-index/">UploadVR</a>, Valve Index controllers are required to play since they offer additional finger tracking over other SteamVR friendly controllers.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/valve-launches-vr-portal-spinoff-aperture-hand-lab.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>(<strong>Update:</strong> An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to <em>Aperture Hand Lab</em> as the “flagship” title Valve teased alongside the Valve Index reveal, and has since been corrected.)</p>
<p>Valve and Cloudhead Games have launched <em>Aperture Hand Lab</em>, a VR-based spinoff of Valve’s <em>Portal</em> series intended to teach VR newbies the ins and outs of the Index’s offerings.</p>
<p>The company took a similar approach with the short <em>Portal</em>-themed VR game <em>The Lab</em> it launched alongside the HTC Vive in 2016 as well. This time around, <em>Aperture Hand Lab</em> was developed by <em>Call of the Starseed</em> dev Cloudhead Games, with Valve credited as its publisher.</p>
<p>The VR title can be played with any SteamVR compatible headset, including the Valve Index and the HTC Vive, though, as pointed out by <a href="https://www.roadtovr.com/cloudhead-valve-aperture-hand-lab-index/">UploadVR</a>, Valve Index controllers are required to play since they offer additional finger tracking over other SteamVR friendly controllers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.xrdconf.com/attend/passes.php?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_xrdc_x_x-xrdc19"><em><strong>Register now for XRDC 2019, the premier AR/VR/MR event for devs!</strong></em></a></p>
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