Hot on the heels of Sunday’s announcement of the HTC Vive’s price Valve has released the S teamVR performance test to help people see if their set up is VR ready.
to help people see if their set up is VR ready. Since then the good people over at SteamDBand ValveTimehave been digging through it’s code, and they found some interesting things, Kotakureports.
As stated above, the SteamVR performance test does just that but instead of running a program that checks the specs of your PC it drops players into a two minute demo from Valve’s Aperture Robot Repair VR demo. From there the program will do all the system checks and tell the user whether or not their PC can handle VR, and if not what they will need to replace. But for a two minute demo there is a lot of hidden content.
Using the current and previous versions of the VR test SteamDB and ValveTime found what could have been Valve’s testing grounds for SteamVR. Along with various assets and other bits of code which I’ll get into later, they also found several different unfinished demos for games like Half-Life , Portal and Left 4 Dead.
First up is a Portal demo which spawns the player in a room, there isn’t much there except Atlas in a looping death animation.