Nice! 2 hours ago in case anyone was wondering how old the screenshot is.
I was wondering that!
I thought the Steam Frame was going to be available “soon”, so it came as a bit of a surprise that they just hired someone to work on it.
Good for her. Valve doesn’t run on the same talent recycling process you see in much of the industry. They’re small and retain talent.
I wish I could have a cool job like that instead of this soul crushing one I’ve ended up with
I am extremely hopeful about steam frame. Wikipedia says it will still run linux like steamdeck.
Eyup. ARM Linux.
Meta’s push towards virtual and augmented reality has clearly been a massive failure from the billions they invested into the “metaverse” only to come up with a shitty VRChat clone that lasted mere months. Meanwhile the only reason they’re really in the news lately is because they stole Google’s failed smart glasses concept, paired up with Ray-Ban and made the ultimate tool for creeps to record and harass women without their consent.
Valve are wise to poach their talent who have undoubtedly been throigh wave after wave of mass layoffs. The only other more significant hire they could have made other than Amanda would have been somehow bringing the fourth-dimensional being housed in a meatsuit known as John Carmack on board. But he’s busy with AGI.
I love it when people demolish stereotypes. Nice work.
What stereotypes?
People with glasses can’t work in VR!
That engineers can’t have awesome style obviously. Too long have we suffered under the burden that we all dress like dweebs, sometimes with a really bad attempt at dressing cool, but here she is actively challenging that stereotype
(But fr I absolutely love the skirt + leather jacket look and am making a note to try it at some point)
Exactly, what stereotypes indeed. Let them rot.
Amanda after 15 mins: wait, don’t we want to steal every piece of data of every user??
Has there been any news on some kind of proper VR desktop? Not a version of windows but something that is a new OS shell and can be used with a keyboard and allows task switching and using multiple VR apps at once?
I think Macs Vison Pro was somewhat geared for productivity. Might be sorta what youre talking about.
Good for her. And for us!
Is it true that their only like 5 engineers (exaggerated obviously and rule all of valve code)?
I reject the notion that technological advancement requires teams of hundreds of engineers.
That being said, the above statement is less and less true every year (look to physics atm), but VR still has a lot of low hanging fruit that need funding OR passion, not necessarily both
Depends what kind of technological advancement and what scale. New graphics tech for games? Sure, a small team might do better at communicating and getting features out quicker. A new, bigger kind of particle collider for high energy physics experiments? You need a good team just for one of the many of kinds of magnets, another just for a particular kind of detector, and so on for thousands of components (and advancements in software for all of the above) which need to be pushed forwards.
(I know you basically said as much, just wanted to expand on it a bit)
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Says a lot about you that, of all of her achievements and qualifications, and the fact that she not just revolutionized but practically created the field of consumer-grade wireless VR… you get stuck on her being a woman.
God’s menagerie is vast, but the fences are low.
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