Valve spokesperson told Road to VR that they’re not promising to support stereoscopic 3D for flat games but they are looking into it.

The company further said it’s considering a system-level implementation that could display any stereoscopic 3D content, whether it’s stereoscopically rendered games, videos, or photos. Should the stereoscopic 3D feature be built, Valve told me it would “be our goal” to be able to display such content when streamed from a PC or rendered directly on the headset itself.

  • qevlarr@lemmy.world
    101·
    10 months ago

    Game engines, give people a stereoscopic rendering mode and let the hardware vendors figure it out. Every game can be a 3D game without much problems. Display technology is there but the content isn’t.

    If anyone could push this, it would be Valve. Just like Linux support. We should not be stuck in the 2D age forever

  • 73ms@sopuli.xyzOP
    6·
    10 months ago

    This would be a dream feature for me as even many flat games become so much more visually impressive and immersive experiences when you are able to look at them in real 3D. Currently you can get a decent number of games displayed this way if you have a stereoscopy-capable device but it’s just a royal PITA that involves lots of fiddling with config so having that be easy on very comfortable hardware like the Frame would be game-changing as far as I am concerned.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      32·
      10 months ago

      I can’t believe Valve is creating a fully immersive VR Stardew dating mod with realistic interactive sex scenes.

  • setsubyou@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    I had some video glasses ages ago that could do that too. Like 15 years ago. I can’t recall a single game without problems. UI was the biggest issue. Often UI elements were at nonsensical 3D positions, and while you wouldn’t notice this on a normal screen, the glasses tried to render them in the center of my brain…

    And before that I had an nVidia graphics card in the late 90ies that came with shutter glasses. The driver could do stereo for “everything” too, however for me “everything” was one game where I could get it to work.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    This would be an exciting feature. I don’t need games to be these deeply interactive VR experiences. Just having any old game playing on a virtual 3D TV would be wonderful.