A few select game developers and movie studios already received their HTC Vive VR development kits but this isn't the end of developers getting their hands on the Taiwanese virtual reality headset.
Valve will reportedly host a VR-focused meetup featuring the Vive. The PlayHubs VR event will be "a new development jam." Also hosting the event is UK-based developer Bossa Studios.
"The Vive VR Game Jam is set to take place from 11th - 12th July 2015 at Somerset House, with a show and tell session for 13th July," VR Focus wrote.
"The Jam is set to last for 36 hours, starting at 8:00 GMT on the 11th and [come] to a close at 20:00 on the 12th."
About 50 developers will be allowed to attend the event and team sizes are expected to range between two and five members each. HTC Vive VR units will be present although some may have to bring their own as those might not meet demand during the event.
The Vive VR Jam isn't the first of its kind. Owlchemy Labs hosted a similar event in the US earlier this year.
HTC Vive VR development kits have started shipping recently with the consumer version expected to arrive later this year. Details have been kept under wraps so far but a report suggests that the VR headset may only initially support Windows at launch. In a demonstration of the Vive VR headset, German PC gaming magazine Gamestar arrived at the conclusion.
Gaming On Linux picked up on the report and managed to translate the original German article.
"Surprisingly, although Steam [Valve] is making great efforts to push its own Linux derivative SteamOS to the market as a gaming operating system, Vive VR will initially work exclusively with Windows. Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway, Gattis smiled mischievously, so they prefer to concentrate on the Windows operating system."
