It's a pretty common word and the last real portal game was 14 years ago. I don't think it's that confusing.

And there's already a VR headset named Portal that's not confusing those fans.

Though uh that one has some potential for confusion.

Three years ago in a very real sense https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_Desk_Job

I put "real" in my sentence explicitly to exclude these little control demos. Half an hour long, no portals, whatever sense it's a "very real" portal game is getting outvoted by the other senses.

Nope the last was released 9 years ago and it was ironically a VR-only game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/446750/Portal_Stories_VR/

That is at least officially a mod for portal 2, and also it's not by Valve. It doesn't count as a real portal game.

I was going to name it Portal, but I named it PortalVR to minimize confusion.

It’s called PortalVR because there is no better name to describe what it’s like to play VR this way. It is like playing games by looking through a portal you hold in your hand.

Yeah please don't change this based on the thoughts of just one Portal fan. If you like the name, keep it.

Portal is pretty old at this point. And realistically you can only expect to get dibs on a generic word for so long.

Sure it's just bizarre for me as a dedicated Portal fan. I just replayed Portal 2 a year ago so it's still fresh for me.

If they're truly attached to it they shouldn't change now of course.