14 DAY TRIAL // Razer, the maker of gaming-oriented peripherals for the PC, and Valve, the developers of well-known PC games like Portal and Half Life, have announced that they are collaborating to deliver specially created Portal 2 levels that will be used to showcase the possibilities included in the Hydra controllers.
The Hydra is made up of two sub-controllers, one for each of the hands of the gamer, and are motion sensitive.
The special Portal 2 levels will allow the gamer to handle a lot of items by simply rotating, moving and resizing them in real time as they use their Hydra controllers in real space.
The Hydra is the result of a collaboration between Razer and SixSense, with the TrueMotion technology used to power the motion base gaming.
A representative from Razer has told Joystiq that a two-controller pack of Hydra products will probably cost under 100 dollars but has not offered a launch window for the device, other than saying it will be introduced during the early part of 2011.
Motion-powered gaming is now available on all home-gaming consoles, with the Nintendo Wii incorporating it since the launch of the device while Sony and Microsoft have incorporated it into the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 last year via the Move and the Kinect.
It's unlikely that the Hydra controller will gain mainstream popularity on the PC, where gamers have long been interested in gaming experience that are built to take full advantage of the mouse and keyboard setup.
At the moment Portal 2 is set to be released on April 18 of this year, but Valve has been known to delay games at the last moment in order to make sure that they are perfect when gamers get their hands on them.
Valve has not announced whether Portal 2 will support Kinect or Move.