Deacon

Thank you for this! HL:Alyx is 100% my first stop and is already in my library. I almost bought the Index just for Alyx.

I am really excited to try all that VR has to offer, but I think as this article alludes to, the options for ways to play my whole library on the frame was what pushed me over the edge. Even if I love VR games, I fully expect to spend more hours playing my other non-VR games on this.

Aesthetically, this is also the closest to the “headset” experience that is in my head from growing up reading Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. It is certainly the first headset I have seen that feels like an actual computer on my head, both in terms of the tech itself and Valve’s approach to ownership.

I’m quivering in anticipation, to be honest.

This WILL be my first VR headset.