HardwareVR HardwareFake ‘Valve Prism’ VR headset website is a prank based on an extremely specific joke from the 2023 Midwest Furfest furry conventionWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
HardwareVR HardwareFake ‘Valve Prism’ VR headset website is a prank based on an extremely specific joke from the 2023 Midwest Furfest furry conventionWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Update:In an email to PC Gamer, Valve confirmed the website and Valve Prism are fake. Original story below.
Sorry folks, Valve’s not announcing a new VR headset today—or at least not the Valve Prism, despite the surprise appearance of a website,valveprism.com, that verynearlylooks like the real deal.
The new site started making the rounds on Wednesday and on first blush very much looks like a Valve production. The page design, fonts, and many of the technical details seem closely in line with the store pages for theSteam DeckandValve Index. And it’s exciting to imagine Valve having a competitor for the Apple Vision Pro, with an equally impressive display in a wireless headset that no longer requires a PC to power it. The whole thing’s quite believable until you look very closely at the details.
Here’s where this thing gets especially strange: the site seems to be building on a two-month-old gag from the Midwest Furfest, a furry convention held last December. At the time, YouTuber Brad Lynch tweeted a photograph of silly stickers stickers hyping up the “Valve Deckard” launching on February 14, 2024.
which of you furry cope addicts are spreading these stickers at Midwest Furfest?this level of copium is DANGEROUS and irresponsible! pic.twitter.com/OjbX2TLeP2December 1, 2023
which of you furry cope addicts are spreading these stickers at Midwest Furfest?this level of copium is DANGEROUS and irresponsible! pic.twitter.com/OjbX2TLeP2December 1, 2023
The Prism site’s security certificate isn’t registered to Valve Corp [US], which is the case with steampowered.com and valvesoftware.com (though oddly not the case with steamdeck.com, either). More importantly, though, the domain was createdtoday, February 14, and registered through Cloudflare unlike Valve’s other domains. That means someone had this prank site built and ready to roll out, which doesn’t exactly strike me as Valve’s style. There’s also no mention of the device on Steam itself or any of Valve’s social channels, though that hasn’t stopped at least one member of the furry community fromrunning with the prankand claiming otherwise.
Lynch, whose YouTube channel is dedicated to VR, seems to be taking the fake pretty hard.
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pic.twitter.com/weJ4HAGWDjFebruary 14, 2024
pic.twitter.com/weJ4HAGWDjFebruary 14, 2024
In the Prism’s description, “We worked with” and that last line about the Steam Deck both read as off to me. So do some of the tech specs, including an improbable 32GB of RAM and “50-point lips, jaw, teeth, and tongue tracking.” The micro OLED panel also claims to be marginally higher resolution than the one in the $3499 Apple Vision Pro, despite the Prism supposedly selling for $1299.
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