SteamVR Headset From HTC To Release Windows Only First

BUT: Valve isn't doing this because they see Linux as the great platform it is, they do all this, because they wanted to break free from Microsoft when the rumors about a (n even more) walled garden aka MS Store first appeared.

Microsoft can still potentially kill Valve business easily (and most probably will eventually try), this hasn't change at all. Windows is already moving from a product oriented business to a service oriented business, which means that services like Steam will be competitors that need to be put down and imagine how easy that would be for Microsoft.

BUT: Valve isn't doing this because they see Linux as the great platform it is, they do all this, because they wanted to break free from Microsoft when the rumors about a (n even more) walled garden aka MS Store first appeared.

Microsoft can still potentially kill Valve business easily (and most probably will eventually try), this hasn't change at all. Windows is already moving from a product oriented business to a service oriented business, which means that services like Steam will be competitors that need to be put down and imagine how easy that would be for Microsoft.

Apparently Valve felt the threat, so it must be real, but I mean... If I'm Microsoft, how do I go about getting the millions of Steam users to leave their dozens/hundreds/thousands of games - not to mention dollars and time invested - in their Steam accounts behind and move to whatever Microsoft's solution is? If Microsoft is to make this kind of a move, they'd better do it fast, before Valve has their own platform out on the market that customers see as an easy jump-to point.

Apparently Valve felt the threat, so it must be real, but I mean... If I'm Microsoft, how do I go about getting the millions of Steam users to leave their dozens/hundreds/thousands of games - not to mention dollars and time invested - in their Steam accounts behind and move to whatever Microsoft's solution is? If Microsoft is to make this kind of a move, they'd better do it fast, before Valve has their own platform out on the market that customers see as an easy jump-to point.

Valve doesn't only have threat from Microsoft. They also have threat from Origin and other similar services.

I have seen an actual 3d tv, it didn’t need glasses as it was parallax barrier, but it needed some work. As a monitor it probably would of worked a lot better. But surely as i stood there things flew out of the screen and there was real depth :)

Steam users like you and me won't stop using it, but Microsoft can create a store like the Google Play store, you can install software not on the store but you have to go check a parameter somewhere to do that, then they can make it so that only software bought on the store appear on the menus, then they can mark the Steam client as a potential threat to the user, then they can use their power to force publisher to only publish new game on the Microsoft store (they would have to if they want to use the newer versions of DX), ... And this way most of Valve user database can be lost in a few years, less games would be published on it and it would die slowly.

Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway

Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway

That hurts, I don't care a lot about the market reasons, but to justify it with a technical reason....... I don't know. I hope that's not true, since nvidia performance its suppose to be good.

BUT: Valve isn't doing this because they see Linux as the great platform it is, they do all this, because they wanted to break free from Microsoft when the rumors about a (n even more) walled garden aka MS Store first appeared.

Microsoft can still potentially kill Valve business easily (and most probably will eventually try), this hasn't change at all. Windows is already moving from a product oriented business to a service oriented business, which means that services like Steam will be competitors that need to be put down and imagine how easy that would be for Microsoft.

My son was bought an Oculus DK2 for christmas, having tried it myself for a few hours I WANT ONE! I'll wait till it's working with Linux, no money from me till then.

man... you know how to bump me on a tuesdays... why the negative speculations? If is not confirmed by other sources i say this are spineless rumors...

Would you adopt me? ;)

"Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway"

That right there makes this sound like either a microsoft fan boy trolling Linux people, or it's just another stupid rumor.

"Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway"

That right there makes this sound like either a microsoft fan boy trolling Linux people, or it's just another stupid rumor.

Exactly, my machine is plenty fast enough to run Windows as well as Linux, the fact it runs Linux better than Windows is beside the point.

I still think it's a fad that will fade with time, I don't want to strap a bloody device to my face. I'm not bothered personally.

"Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway"

That right there makes this sound like either a microsoft fan boy trolling Linux people, or it's just another stupid rumor.

Exactly, my machine is plenty fast enough to run Windows as well as Linux, the fact it runs Linux better than Windows is beside the point.

You don't own a Steam Machine. You own a PC running Linux.