Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx with first and only tweet for account

Popping your Twitter account's cherry is pretty rare, especially for a well known entity like Valve. It would be interesting to see a list of other well-known Twitter accounts that have a single Tweet. I recall Peter Thiel doing the same with his account[1]. For those accounts, people are basically subscribed to a single advertisement.

[1] https://twitter.com/peterthiel

The other big VR news today is the beta release of Oculus Link, which turns the $500 standalone Oculus Quest into a tethered low-latency PC VR headset. This is an important innovation that deserves more attention.

Also you may have missed the recent report of Apple VR headset intended to be released in 2022. Reportedly it will have full color cameras (unlike the Oculus Quest) with photogrammetry of user play spaces for AR-type applications. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504535

I'm torn between wanting it to be VR exclusive so that it takes full advantage of the interesting differences between VR and reg. gaming, and wanting it to be non-'VR exclusive' so that I might actually get a chance to play it without having to fork out for VR gear that I otherwise have little interest in.

To celebrate, I got Dr Kleiner to sing "I am the very model of a modern major general":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=koU3L7WBz_s&...

This is either going to be groundbreaking or a massive disappointment. There is no in-between.

VR unlocked a whole new world of possibilities which are yet to be explored. If they manage to innovate the way they did with Half Life 2, then oh boy we are in for a treat. On the flip side, if it turns out to be just a run-of-the-mill game but in VR it would be a damn waste. Even if it is a good game.

They have to show us something new and never seen before, just like they did with HL2, to show us why VR is the next step in gaming. If anyone can do it, it's Valve. And it's in their best interest to do so, seeing how much they invested in it.

Let's hope that Old Valve didn't lose their souls with all that Steam money. But I'll trust them on this one.

Hacked Twitter account ? I purchased the "Orange Box" I think 10 years ago, than I changed city and the games remained in a store facility for years. Recently, I've recovered the box, still being able to register the game, I played and completed all the Half Life episodes. I thought the last hope to have and ending to the saga was the Project Borealis. Let's see ... If it isn't a fake, they was waiting for me ! :-)

Confirmed: Valve doesn't know how to count to 3.

Let's hope it's not a card game

I have no idea what Alyx means but I'm so envious of whoever came up with the name.

Discussed in earlier post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21569244

Anyone know how many followers the account had ten hours ago? I wonder if they've been planning this since they created the account in June.

This is going to be a great spark in VR's timeline.

There's a lot of things happening at once in the VR sphere, its a very exciting time.

Cool, VR might survive this cycle after all...

Let's see if it can make it to 3 tweets.

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