Ex-Valve Employees Launch 3D AR & VR Headset Kickstarter

[Guest]

Ex-Valve employees are bringing their headset project to Kickstarter.

Ex-Valve Employees Launch 3D AR & VR Headset Kickstarter : Read more

 

[maxiim]

Valve fires people? O.O

 

[photonboy]

That's nice of Gabe Newell.

Seriously, how many companies not only innovate as he does but would also allow employees to take their work with them.

By "fired" I believe it means "laid off" due to restructuring which is common.

I'm not sure why they'd concentrate on a VR headset with the Occulus VR already in development but I guess competition is a good thing.

 

[Lord Captivus]

This article would be a good place to insert a link to the kickstarter project...right?

 

[yolosweg]

praise the lord gaben

 

[_Cosmin_]

By him let them go with the project... shows how confident it was on that project (in)success.

 

[rwinches]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system

 

[cats_Paw]

I think occulus will take the market as its already well in development, but yeah, competition aint a bad thing.

 

[velosteraptor]

This article would be a good place to insert a link to the kickstarter project...right?

In the second paragraph, the word 'kickstarter' is a link to the page... took me a few minutes to notice it.

 

[sean1357]

eMagin already has this for years. OLED with motion sensor mouse.

 

[michaelssw]

I didn't see the link either but it's embeded in the word Kickstarter. Unless they just edited the article.

 

[jimmysmitty]

That's nice of Gabe Newell.

Seriously, how many companies not only innovate as he does but would also allow employees to take their work with them.

By "fired" I believe it means "laid off" due to restructuring which is common.

I'm not sure why they'd concentrate on a VR headset with the Occulus VR already in development but I guess competition is a good thing.

That's another reason why I love VALVe. They focus on consumers and don't screw people over.

I just wish they would focus a bit more on those of us who want a new Half Life. I am sure they are probably working on it with Source 2 but the wait is killer. VALVe always has a way of making a game fun and have a great story.

I just want to kill some more Combine jerks.

 

[photonboy]

That's nice of Gabe Newell.

Seriously, how many companies not only innovate as he does but would also allow employees to take their work with them.

By "fired" I believe it means "laid off" due to restructuring which is common.

I'm not sure why they'd concentrate on a VR headset with the Occulus VR already in development but I guess competition is a good thing.

That's another reason why I love VALVe. They focus on consumers and don't screw people over.

I just wish they would focus a bit more on those of us who want a new Half Life. I am sure they are probably working on it with Source 2 but the wait is killer. VALVe always has a way of making a game fun and have a great story.

I just want to kill some more Combine jerks.

re: Half-Life 3
“I can’t confirm all too much since the development is still in early stages, but for now I can confirm that we are going to release on both current and next generation consoles and we will also release the game on our own platform exclusively for PC and Mac… We hope to have the first trailer ready for E3 2014, which we (after several times not attending) will finally come back to.”

Gabe Newell confirmed that info, and it's generally speculated that a 2014 Q4 release will happen (so a year from now).

I believe "own platform" may mean not only the regular Steam game service but possibly SteamOS boxes. In fact, releasing HL3 on Steambox would give a lot of publicity to launch the new platform/service.

They should also have the new Steam controller out by then.