Valve’s Chet Faliszek has been a key virtual reality evangelist & developer relations liaison over the past couple of years for the HTC Vive, and I had a chance to sit down with him at GDC as they were showing off many of their launch titles. Chet talks about what convinced him to move his desk to start working on VR, some of the emerging new genres of VR games, some launch title highlights and some of his personal favorite VR experiences, as well as some stories of people discovering room-scale VR for the first time. There’s been a lot of growth and maturity in developing room-scale VR experiences over the past year, and Chet is continually humbled and surprised by what developers come up with. And with over 50 launch titles for the HTC Vive today, then there’s a wide range of different types of experiences to choose from.

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Here’s some of the launch titles that Chet mentions:

And you can look at some other mixed reality trailers that are located here on this SteamVR launch page.

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