Although Valve's The Lab was initially just a way for different teams at the long-time developer to play around with the possibilities of virtual reality, The Lab has become one of the best playgrounds for early VR experiences, so Valve is tweaking and updating it to make it better and better.
The latest improvement adds scoreboards to the archery game, which perhaps has the highest ceiling for skill development out of all of the minigames and experiences within The Lab.
This will make it a new, competitive game mode and will give those who long ago earned their VR legs, to compete against one another to see how good their in-game archery really is. Points will be awarded for taking down enemies, headshots and popping balloons, all adding up to see if it's the best in the world.
Longbow mode will also have unlimited waves of enemies, so you can continue slaying those little guys as long as your arms hold out - which may not be that long. Even without a bow to hold or a string to pull, that VR experience is tiring.
That's not all though. Scoreboards have also been added to Xortex, and Slingshot, so if you're a dab hand at launching those personality cores into explosive barrels, or hand fighting with space ships and lasers, then you'll be able to show the world soon enough.
This big, Appliance of Science update, will also add subtitles and text localization so that more people can enjoy it.
Will you be popping your Vive on to give the Lab another try after this update?
