Jonathan Blow’s The Witness Will Support Valve’s New VR Tech

Posted Jan 24 2014 by Dylan Zellmer with 0 Comments

A while back we’d posted an update from Jonathan Blow’s The Witness. If you recall, back in November, Blow made a vague post about possible VR support for the title. As of then he’d just begun getting to know Valve‘s new approach to VR, today he confirmed that The Witness would support Valve’s new VR tech. He also shared his thoughts on the companies prototype,

I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at Valve’s virtual reality system. It is so much better than anything else I had used that I was instantly very excited by it. Right away I could see games you might design for this system that had been impossible before; so it isn’t just a matter of the system being very immersive (which it is) but that it can take video games in general to a new place.

Our last update revealed that The Witness would feature over 500 unique puzzles, a scale that’s simply too large to FULLY support the HMD (head mounted display) at present. However, as Blow remarks,

that is the kind of problem that gets solved over time

This adds yet another layer of intrigue to what is already a great concept. We’ll keep you up-to-date as more information becomes available.

http://www.igameresponsibly.com/2014/01/24/jonathan-blows-the-witness-will-support-valves-new-vr-tech/

Valve actually just announced that they will not be unveiling their own VR hardware, and are instead putting their full support behind Oculus Rift. So apparently The Witness will be compatible with that instead.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/17/valve-has-no-vr-headset-supporting-oculus-rift-instead

Good stuff. Let's see if there actually is a market for VR games without boobies.

Now we just gotta wait for Sony to unveil their VR tech. I don't think Oculus Rift is coming to consoles.

Virtual Reality Systems will never be successful because it's not a product for the mass market!!!

I'm sure that's what everyone said about the Wii before it came out. VR could be the next big thing in gaming, it's too early to write it off. 

VR Systems will always be to expensive to become a mass market product!!! Sorry :)

Err you know things go down in price over time right? We still don't know exact costs so like I said before, it's too early to write off VR tech. 

I promise you that VR Systems will never be successful in the gaming industry!! And a simple reason for that is that no one likes to wear such things while gaming and because these VR Systems exists now for over 15 years i think in the arcades and even then no one was interrestet in these VR Systems!!!

I'm pretty sure that's what people said about video games before they were popular in the mainstream.