HTC and Valve's hottest collaboration is now running on SteamVR. It is said that HTC Vive does not limit its compatibility to VR-only games, as Valve announced the Desktop Theater Mode feature to be added on the device. Although the device itself is yet to be released, the creator of it already revealed what users can take advantage of in this latest innovation. Desktop Theater mode feature will allow users to play VR and any Steam titles on HTC Vive. Valve said that even on the coming new versions of the SteamVR headsets, this feature will be added.

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This latest innovation will have its formal introduction in the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week but there have not been any image or video presentation of the said feature, as it is still running on beta testing.

Desktop Theater Mode may be some sort of a rectangular plane inside the Virtual Reality community displaying 2D content by how it is being described. It can probably be like that of Google Cardboards' or Oculus Rift's Virtual Movie Theater feature. The only possible difference that these VRs may have is that Vive will allow owners to load and play non Virtual Reality specific games as well as navigation of the Windows desktop background. By the sound of it, perhaps the user doesn't need to remove Vive when they need to switch from playing games to working on an Excel and Word files or even browse thru their emails, according to Slash Gear.

There are certain games in which users need to take off the VR headset to continue playing and put it back on again if they switch games. Torchlight and Far Cry 4 are some of the games that demands more screen to continue playing and there are other more games that needs more screen as well.

Even if the Desktop Theater Mode feature will allow non-Virtual Reality specific games to be played on it, there are still certain games that are not designed for VR playing which is the sad part of the story.

Tech Times added that Virtual Reality industry is forecasted to boom this 2016 and in the years to come according to the International Data Corporation also an approximate of $30 billion worth for the VR market by 2020 reported by Digi-Capital.