Valve's "VR touchdown" - DAY 1

I guess I can't help myself because I have once again found the unresistable urge to further document this moment in time before it slips away into the ether. This week is supposed to be marked as "Valve's VR touchdown" according to bradley's sources and I can't help but think that's overselling what we're going to see announced here this wednesday.

But I must profess I enjoy the anticipation fase of this event far too much, in order for future me to be satisfied i have to get my thoughts down somewhere.

The deckard will not be a "touchdown".

I figure this is a good place to start, as the expectations of this hardware has been all over the place, some people figuring it will provide high-end performance at mid-tier prices much akin to the deck and others believing it will be priced far far lower than what leaks have suggested so far. For starters I think this headset will be sold on it's software much more so than its hardware - I believe there's no good reason to think that the deckard will deliver anything like a high-end hardware experience at it's expected price point, especially when it isn't believed to be subsidized like it's handheld counterpart.

another perhaps is that this week, in it's entirety, is Valve's VR touchdown due to the nature of what is being revealed. One could consider the complexity of the seperate elements which the deckard is composed of and, to varying degrees, relies on - given the degree of complexity it might not be considered a reach to expect Valve to create some sort of multi-part announcement for the occasion, especially as they aren't strangers to making content drop announcements in seperated parts - segmented into daily dumps of info with the last day signifying the release.

Now as I write this we have gone beyond the timestamp where the steam page will update and the expected changes were observed on said page. However there is still time (Mr. Freeman?) to see a plan like this through, although it would be a fairly cramped timeframe if we were to assume a full-scale reveal occuring on the 12th.

Either way this 10th of November has been one very calm one. I think it is safe to assume that tomorrow will dictate what the rest of the week will look like; if we get nothing, then it would be safe to assume the deckard will have a blow out reveal along with the rest of it's components on Wednesday - if something does happen and we get the slightest tease of the headset tomorrow then i expect more to follow over the course of the next 3 days with friday naturally lending itself to being the biggest announcement.

That being said it could go either way - I imagine they'd want to hold off the theoretical hlx announcement for the anniversary to prolong Valve's appearance in the news cycle (given they care about that sort of thing).

Not much time left now! I suppose given this being the first post in this series I should give some thought to the nuclear path: Valve announces nothing.

IF that were to be the case we would be looking at a very odd scenario, I'd have to assume that something has happened to the deckard, perhaps a loss in confidence or worse a full on cancellation. Either way it would certainly make for a less splashy game announcement the following week. That being said I wouldn't put it past Valve to jump out at the last minute after touching the water, that being said it cannot be overstated that Valve has worked tirelessly on every component of this product - it is a truly novel combination of technologies, not entirely novel in and of itself but it's composition very much is.