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 agree with the sentiment, and I’m sure Valve are one of the better companies to work for, so I’m happy for her…
But Valve aren’t small.
They ARE the PC gaming industry. They generate billions in revenue and control something like 75% of the global PC distribution market. I know they keep trying to sell themselves as just a small company, because they’re a small internal team, but I really wish they’d snap out of it and scale up a bit to match their market. Especially when talking about their hardware side. I live in New Zealand, and the number of conversations I’ve had with people who have gone to some pretty extreme lengths to get a hold of Valve hardware is ridiculous. I’m not even talking about the new stuff, I mean the damn Steam Deck. I find it incredibly frustrating to hear people refer to them as a small company. Jolla is a small company. Valve is not.
Anyway, sorry, /rant
Small was in regards to the number of people they employ. Valve runs a lean ship of a few hundred.
Neither Jolla nor Valve are small companies, 200 and 350 (ish) employees respectively. But company size has nothing to do with revenue or profit, it’s literally just people on the payroll and a cutoff of your choosing.
I don’t think it’s really fare to compare the distribution capabilities of a hardware company vs a software/service company, though. And doesn’t this hiring kind of imply they’re expanding their hardware side?
From employee count they both would easily fit the legal US definition of a small business, as that’s usually 500 or fewer, but can be as high as 1500 in some industries, depends what they’d be classified as.
Some are just directly about revenue too, so you could in theory be too big to be a small business even if it’s just a single person - and by that standard, Valve is obviously not fit to be a small business.Whoa, I think in many other countries it’s small upto 50. 500 feels so high - the ceo wouldn’t even know everyone.
Congratulations to her on getting the job
Nice! 2 hours ago in case anyone was wondering how old the screenshot is.
Thank you!
Social media’s use of time since posting of timestamps is so frustrating.
But that’s perfectly fine if you’re not screen grabbing and posting elsewhere?
So then what you’re saying is it’s not fine. Cause screenshots of Twitter is basically all the internet is these days.
no, it’s not just show me the damn time it was posted. I hate when only relative information is given.
Yes, but it makes sense in relation to other posts. It is just frustrating after longer period of time then a few minutes or hours, or when screenshot like this.
I think the compromise is a visual indicator of age - color or an icon indicating recency, in addition to a good old fashioned date timestamp.
I’m not a fan of coloring for age of post. Usually the compromise is, when mouse hover it will show the actual date in a on hover popup. How about when clicking the time it changes to a timestamp (and back) or while mouse is hovering / touching the time it changes on the fly (without any hover tip, Edit: I just realized that most people don’t use a mouse on their phone :D also this would require dynamic changing with JavaScript).
The layouts generally have room to state time in relation and the actual time. Even a simple date would be better than only relational. Most hide the real time in a hover over or click on the relational time whoch isn’t captured in a screenshot.
Social media screenshots are so common it is time to update to show both be default.
But then it wouldn’t drive you crazy, and you wouldn’t sign up and find the post just to find out the actual time
And if you don’t make the conversion then that’s basically stealing /s ^but not really, they actually think like this^
It makes perfect sense when using the website. The problem isn’t the timestamp, it’s the lazy people who share fuzzy inaccessible screenshots instead of links.
I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.
And most of the time I’m just using the delta to get to the timestamp.
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.
They did release dramatic updates to the Steam Deck post release. Worked out well for that, no reason they’d stop.
Very cool! You known what would also be cool? Releasing the damn thing!
Given the current chip market there’d be a 400+ USD upcharge from the previously stated price of “below the (Valve) Index”
Right and in a year it will be outdated + overpriced hardware, rather than just overpriced. Like, steam box haven’t teached you a thing?
I can already run cyberpunk on my pc. I want this so I can now see it in VR in higher quality than my current headset, wirelessly, with a much less bulky format.
It’s more than good enough for CPU imo but the GPU is going to really struggle. I think though most people just want onboard processing for the foveated streaming support and plan to use it with an actual PC, where I’ve heard the headset is extremely comfortable and lightweight despite what is then an overspecced processor
For standalone it should be faster than a Quest 3, so I think it’s a stretch to call it outdated, it’s still not great though
It might be outdated, but it won’t be overpriced. Meta made it clear their next headset will not be subsidised. And Pico are saying their next headset will be a Apple Vision Pro competitor.
So you saying they all will be overpriced? How that contradicts what I just said?
It’s not overpriced if that’s what components and comparable hardware costs now and in the future, it’s just the new normal.
lol why would you try to compete with something that no one’s buying
What’s upcharge? Is that like updog?
I understood that reference
Sort of a synonym for markup, an additional cost on top of the original planned price.
What the fuck is updog?
Fuckin’ not muchdog, what’s up with you?
You’re the best kind of person
They have to finish HL3 first so that it has a launch title worthy of a new platform.
I really think they need to do a Frame Lite that just does streaming. A 16GB ARM powered standalone device was probably a great idea two years ago, but now we have all this. *gestures to fucking everything*
Considering Valve’s customer base, this is really what I expected out of the Frame. I find it odd that they focused on standalone compute alongside a novel streaming function (foveating streaming) when the two are mutually exclusive in gaming use.
Because translating x86 to ARM will kick Microsoft while they’re already down. This is just the justification to the means.
I am extremely hopeful about steam frame. Wikipedia says it will still run linux.
Eyup. ARM Linux.
This is what actually has me excited over it
If I can somehow afford a Steam Frame down the road, great! The real hype I’m feeling is in knowing we’ll have Linux support for all sorts of mobile devices boosted by the advances they’ll be supporting on the software side
Ofc it’s going to run Linux, it’s default OS is going to be some variant of SteamOS
Lemmy behavioral study, day #1105:
A person does not get crucified for having a blue checkmark if they are a girl engineer.Amanda after 15 mins: wait, don’t we want to steal every piece of data of every user??
While the steam hardware survey is opt in, it is still data harvesting lol
True, but consent always makes things feel different.
Neat
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
Certainly not 3 🤷
Ohhh! I like that!!! Fuck Meta!
She has a lovely smile, I hope she enjoys her time there
She does! She should smile more! /s
Very elementary!
She is giving me Dr Who vibes in that photo.
Now if they hire Guy Godin as well, the wireless VR dream team will be complete
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?
did you forget that Linux exists?
It should definitely be on the basis of linux, but not really what I mean. I mean a UI OS shell optimized for VR and things like eye tracking and controllers and how to switch from controller to keyboard. This is like an unsolved problem afaik. Like IOS and android designed a new shell for a non-desktop platform. I read a bit about Apple Vision Pro how they designed their UI widgets with eye tracking in mind.
At the minimum I want to be able to play a VR game like Elite Dangerous and pull up a video chat panel or browser window / notepad to look up stuff without exiting the game.
reminds me of that one episode of community
Which one? It’s been a while and I haven’t seen the last season I think.
oooh sry cant remember the specific season/episode, but it revolved around the dean and superintendent getting hooked on a experimental vr operating system iirc
I guess this one: Community S6E02 Lawnmower Maintenance And Postnatal Care. I probably mean the exact opposite lol.
https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/18/community-lawnmower-maintenance/
There are multiple such projects, for example: https://wiki.vronlinux.org/docs/fossvr/stardust/
But the same wiki mentions a few more.
The problem is that the hmd resolution isn’t really good enough for reading small text.
Thanks! And yeah I expect higher resolution to be the real killer app for VR. Once you can actually replace a multi monitor setup with VR?
I was told the Apple headset’s resolution is like the lower limit in resolution for that to work ok, so I guess those type of screens will come to more affordable HMDs some time in the future.
I think Macs Vison Pro was somewhat geared for productivity. Might be sorta what youre talking about.
