Despite its advancing age, the Valve Index is still the most fully featured VR package out there, offering an incredibly immersive experience for those with an accompanying high-powered PC. Why you ...

With the Valve Index, Valve aimed to set the standard for PC VR in 2019. Six years later, its journey ends, marking the transition to a new era of VR. When Valve announced the Valve Index in spring ...

And instead of inside-out tracking, the Valve Index uses Base Stations which you must place in a room of your house and aim at your play area so that your most intricate movements can be tracked and ...

Valve’s Index headset was a market leader among PC VR headsets for years, but is it still worth buying in 2025 now that it’s nearly six years old? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation. As ...

Sony's PS5-tethered VR2 headset costs half as much as the PC-powered Valve Index. Are the savings are worth the technology trade-off? I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source ...

From being a first-rate developer of contemporary gaming classics like Half-Life and Dota to establishing the industry’s biggest PC gaming storefront in Steam, Valve’s evolution has been jaw-dropping.

Valve Software has been at the bleeding edge of PC gaming since its inception in 1996 by two ex-Microsoft employees, Gabe Newell, and Mike Harrington. The company popularized the game launcher model ...