In late 2014, Cloudhead was among a select group of VR pioneers invited to a secret summit at Valve Corporation. It was there that SteamVR was revealed for the first time, and Cloudhead began to develop for its vision of VR’s future: Roomscale.

Since then, Cloudhead has developed technical demos for each of SteamVR’s innovations, from the original roomscale demo at GDC 2015 to the reveal of the SteamVR Knuckles at SDD 2016.

Aperture Hand Lab is the latest collaboration; an exploration into the Portal universe and a state-of-the-art showcase of the finger tracking capabilities available with the next-gen Valve Index VR system. 

THESE AREN’T YOUR DADDY’S HANDS.

These aren’t even your hands. These are precision-tuned sensor-rich re-imaginings of your hands, presented in high-fidelity simulated reality.

MAIN FEATURES: GRABBING – SHAKING – WAVING

If you’ve always longed to try these exciting edge-of-your-wrist hand maneuvers, but wanted the chance to practice first in the safety of a non-judgmental virtual world, Aperture Hand Lab is easily in the top three options currently available to you in VR.

PRESENTED IN THE WORLD OF APERTURE.

You didn’t read that wrong! This game is present in the bowl of ape nature! Hold on, we did read that wrong! But you didn’t, Reading Champ! This game takes place in Aperture Science, home to the modestly popular Portal games your daddy used to play!

BUT THIS ISN’T YOUR DADDY’S GAME!