{"id":121206,"date":"2017-10-10T17:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121206"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:19:13","slug":"valve-licenses-its-vr-tech-to-hardware-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/121206-valve-licenses-its-vr-tech-to-hardware-makers","title":{"rendered":"Valve licenses its VR tech to hardware makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has licensed more of its virtual reality technology to hardware manufacturers, reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.co.uk\/valve-licensing-vr-ip-third-parties,news-56976.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company previously supplied hardware manufacturers with its room-scale tracking technology at no cost, and now offers access to its optical system technology, manufacturing and calibration tools, and software stack.<\/p>\n<p>Valve\u2019s custom lenses will also be made available for purchase for use in SteamVR-compatible headsets.<\/p>\n<p>SteamVR is Valve\u2019s dedicated VR platform, which currently boasts over 2,000 compatible titles and supports a number of headsets.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Valve is also working with Microsoft to make Windows Mixed Reality headsets compatible with SteamVR.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/219108-valve-bans-over-40000-steam-accounts-after-summer-sale.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Valve bans over 40,000 Steam accounts after Summer Sale<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has licensed more of its virtual reality technology to hardware manufacturers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":101734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2169,697,6050],"class_list":["post-121206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-technology","tag-valve","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}