A brand new job itemizing noticed by UploadVR signifies the corporate is engaged on a brand new piece of digital actuality {hardware}.

Valve is actively trying to find a software program engineer who can “assist us obtain the following steps in VR with thousands and thousands of consumers worldwide.”

Notably, the advert explains the profitable candidate will probably be tasked with prototyping, transport, and supporting “shopper gaming merchandise leveraging visual-inertial monitoring (HMD and controllers), digital camera passthrough, atmosphere understanding, eye monitoring, and hand monitoring.”

It additionally suggests candidates ought to have a “deep understanding” of human topic consciousness, together with hand monitoring, eye monitoring, and physique monitoring.

Valve’s debut VR headset, the Valve Index, launched in April 2019 and was bundled with Half-Life: Alyx, which was one thing of an enormous deal contemplating simply how lengthy followers had been ready to revisit the franchise.

As famous by UploadVR, the machine nonetheless has standout monitoring and audio tech, however has been surpassed by rivals with regards to wi-fi help and backbone.

In May final yr, Valve boss Gabe Newell urged the corporate can be making “large investments” in new VR {hardware} (through Road to VR) throughout a chat he gave at a highschool in New Zealand.

Although the job itemizing is not irrefutable affirmation {that a} new headset is within the works, all indicators appear to counsel that Valve has one thing brewing behind closed doorways.