maybe they're trying to contact the combine to make half-life 3 a real-life experience.
Valve looking for hardware engineers (job posting)
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maybe they're trying to contact the combine to make half-life 3 a real-life experience.
no, I haven't listened to it. Well, I was talking about her career mostly.
It's truly interesting to see the bits and pieces of the cobweb come together. Fooling around with input devices that possibly relate to wearable computing instruments, maintaining a low power output, taking the stock controller and adding a trackball to it to resemble mouse control alongside several more buttons to imitate the custom selection of a keyboard, while the rumours of a Steambox persist.. and as morningbus said due to the tweet left by Jeri Ellsworth, "nextgen" does not have to mean a more powerful future hardware.
Valve being Valve means that we will not really know what is going on until the unleash the hounds. All we can do is provide speculation and conjecture based upon what evidence we have, while my own imagination goes wild and begins to see the false cusp between today and Ghost in the Shell technology. derFeef put it better than me though - "Can't wait for the Valve device that hooks directly into my brain so I can experience Half-Life 3 in it's fullest."
Valve being Valve means that we will not really know what is going on until the unleash the hounds. All we can do is provide speculation and conjecture based upon what evidence we have, while my own imagination goes wild and begins to see the false cusp between today and Ghost in the Shell technology. derFeef put it better than me though - "Can't wait for the Valve device that hooks directly into my brain so I can experience Half-Life 3 in it's fullest."
They need to spoof the industry and push that out as the defacto way to control this mythical Steambox. The reaction would be more intense than anything Nintendo could do.
Best use of motion gaming ever. Steambox to come bundled with Crowbar FPS.
Do you seriously believe a single person could develop anything like what you're proposing? This isn't the early 90s. To develop something like that you'd need a team of elite engineers. This has become massively complicated.
A chip, for dealing with biofeedback, however is probably something a single person/small handful could pull off. And I'm sure you'd need some kind of chip in this controller they're building.
EDIT: Unless by low powered device that's what you were referring to. I was reading that as an actual gaming system and not just a controller.
Backfoggen
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New Valve controller: A 3d printer that allows you to print out unlimited controllers specifically made for each game.
I H8 Memes
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I really think this is some kind of Onlive type of box for the living room. Perfect fit for their business and would give them the ability to expand their customer base vastly.
Seraphinianus
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FrontalMonk
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This post and the Tim Cook visit within the same day? This can't be a coincidence.
Chaos
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I think they also hired Ben Krasnow who does mad electronics stuff
http://youtu.be/B_olmdAQx5s
http://youtu.be/qHECpEhJdB8
http://youtu.be/B_olmdAQx5s
http://youtu.be/qHECpEhJdB8
krameriffic
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As impressive an accomplishment as Steam is, and as much as Valve wants to diversify into all segments of the gaming market, I very much miss the days when they just developed games.
I want that Valve back.
I want that Valve back.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'm not sure if you heard, but like, they released one of the best games ever made just last year, will be releasing one of the best competitive multiplayer games later this year, and have shown no intention of packing it up.
This seems like a lot of information on the hardware front appearing rather recently. I wonder if they're ramping up to E3...
narcosis219
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Does this have anything to do with Tim Cook's visit?
It could, but I think that visit is likely more related to the Steam Platform on Apple Devices. Maybe Valve is trying to get some more Steam integration with iOS, so you can play a game you bought on your PC on a iPad. But thats just a guess.
ThaiGrocer
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They're definitely in broadcast mode in order to attract large brains. I'm sure they'll do the same thing when they get into microbiology.
After reading this blog it's clear that Valve has become more than a game developer and a digital distributor.
The Technomancer
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Yeah, peripheral makes a lot more sense. I'll drag up the patents Valve holds. Really interested in the kind of controller they want to put out.
Edit:
It's based on the concept of having modular pieces that can totally change how the controller functions. One configuration used a trackball, probably in an attempt to bring mouse-like controls to a controller.
They'd also be wireless via using a home wi-fi connection. A lot about this job posting fits the technical description of this controller.
Gah, Orayn and I totally had this idea like a year ago man! No fair!
Syphon Filter
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steam controller.
WOW.
Now i know why "Valve Time" exist. Really exciting stuff is happening out there, hopefully someday they will be able to produce some world shattering tech.
Is Valve actually a bunch of Post Modern Artists? Because I just went "I could of done that"
GotEmRunnin
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That blog makes me wish I would have gotten more than my associates in computer technology.......
"That there are things that Gabe badly wants the company to do that arent happening, because no one has signed up to do them."
ThaiGrocer
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A pony based FPS might be super appealing to a small group of people, but it just won't sell well enough to justify the resources needed.
IISANDERII
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Microsoft shat on us and Sony doesn't know what it's doing. So:
"Not long ago no one had heard of [Steam or Valve], and now look at what it's become. All our hopes rest here."
narcosis219
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What about knives? What if the game had KNIVES?