Valve's "VR touchdown" - DAY 3

Today Valve completely surpassed expectations, not ONLY did we get the announcement of the deckard and triton as expected, but FREMONT - the STEAM MACHINE.

Valve's ambitions of steam universe has been rebooted 10 years later.

I have many things I want to dive into over the coming days, but for now I will give some quick impressions and leave the deeper analysis for the future.

Steam Controller

A reboot of a failed experiment. I like the overwriting of the name, the old steam controller was ahead of it's time, but also had glaring issues - this serves to address them. Very curious to see the performance of the gyro IMU, the grip sensing function and how those grip buttons perform. The success of this device is pretty well secured based on the steam deck's sales.

Steam Frame

This is difficult to talk about without going into detail - this was the product I'd been following for the last ~3 years and to see where it is now is oh so gratifying. I'll have a LOT more to say about this in the future. but the implications of the hardware are big, this has also opened up people's eyeballs to the possibilities for future ARM-based devices. I have to stop myself there, but I will end this by saying I was very positively surprised by the aproach Valve had to talking about this device; choosing to address all its features as equal members.

Steam Machine

This device is about the price. Everything about the Steam Machine HINGES its price. There is so much potential here, by virtue of this being a regular PC at it's core, it's usecases stretch out incredibly wide and thus it truly does depend entirely on what Valve chooses for this thing's price point. Anyone can see this thing having a space in their home, it's size and design is very unintrusive - genuinely could see people buying this thing as a media consumption device at the right price. Lot of stuff to talk about in regards to being an entry gateway drug to linux, but that's a much broader talk to have.

Overall I am very satisfied, this has been Valve's big VR touchdown and then some.

More to follow tomorrow!