While controls and interfaces for virtual reality games are in their infancy, Valve Software is taking innovative approaches with its new 'Half-Life' installment.
puts players in the shoes of Alyx Vance, a prominent member of the Resistance fighting the alien Combine government. She is also the daughter of a physicist who formerly worked at the Black Mesa Research Facility, where extraterrestrial creatures were first unleashed on Earth.
The three gameplay videos released by Valve primarily explore the Blink and Shift movement modes, both of which rely on jumping to locations selected by the player with an orange interface, which highlights a trajectory and where Alyx's feet will be placed on the other side of the movement. The third gameplay video released by Valve shows how the interface works in a shootout with Combine soldiers. Virtual hands,'s main interface, can catch grenades, affix explosive attachments to guns and break open objects in the environment hiding ammunition and medicine. Rather than running around the field of combat, the in-game player teleported from cover position to cover position, sometimes using two hops to teleport to a new position around a corner.
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