VALVE, the company behind the Steam download service and the Half Life game series appears to be working on some if its own Virtual Reality hardware.

Images circulating online of prototype headsets with the Valve logo clearly visible on their circuitry suggest as much -- and VR news site Upload VR claims to have confirmed it.

2 The Valve logo is clearly visible on the upper-left portion of the circuit board

They also claim that the headset will come bundled with a totally new Half Life game, with sources suggesting it is likely to be set before Half-Life 2.

It is not clear if this a full new Half-Life game, or just a spin-off VR experience.

The images, which appear to have been taken in late July of this year, give a few more clues as to the power of the devices.

They appear to have a pair of widely separated front-facing cameras, suggesting a wide field of view.

2 The monitor in this picture reveals it was taken in late July

Upload VR's sources say that the headsets will run at the same resolution as the Vive Pro, HTC's follow-up to the original Vive VR headset which they developed in partnership with Valve.

That resolution combined with increasing the field of view to 135 degrees mean that the angular resolution -- how sharp any one section of the image is -- will actually be the same as the original Vive.

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The hardware in the pictures also has a number of different motion-tracking elements, and it appears to have space on the front for further motion-tracking technology.

Motion-tracking technology combined with front-facing camera suggest that the device will be capable of Alternate Reality gaming as well as VR, where virtual objects are rendered in a view of the real world, rather than in an environment of their own.

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