Valve wants Half-Life: Alyx to work well standalone on Steam Frame

When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve’s caller Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; acknowledgment to the Frame’s dedicated wireless adapter and a chill instrumentality Valve calls “foveated streaming,” I didn’t observe immoderate latency arsenic I explored an concern gathering and fought immoderate caput crabs.

But the Frame besides has an Arm spot inside, meaning it tin tally games locally. While I didn’t get to trial playing Half-Life: Alyx that way, based connected comments Valve gave to different publications, it seems similar Valve is optimistic that it mightiness beryllium capable to marque the crippled tally good erstwhile played standalone.

“Half-Life: Alyx is simply a large acquisition erstwhile streamed from a PC to Steam Frame, and we are looking into making it a bully standalone acquisition arsenic well,” Valve told Digital Foundry. And according to UploadVR, “Valve representatives deliberation they tin get Half-Life: Alyx moving performant successful standalone, but they’re not promising it yet and it’s wide there’s inactive a batch for them to do.”

Fingers crossed Valve finds a mode to marque it happen. I’ve really ne'er played Half-Life: Alyx, and if I get a Steam Frame, I’d decidedly privation to effort playing it standalone.