Amanda Watson, the engineer who pioneered the AirLink and several other technologies for Oculus, was hired at Valve.

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• BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice! 2 hours ago in case anyone was wondering how old the screenshot is.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you!

    Social media’s use of time since posting of timestamps is so frustrating.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But that’s perfectly fine if you’re not screen grabbing and posting elsewhere?

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • thedoginthewok@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • niisyth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They did release dramatic updates to the Steam Deck post release. Worked out well for that, no reason they’d stop.

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• Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish I could have a cool job like that instead of this soul crushing one I’ve ended up with

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wish I could have a job…

    I’m going on 20 months of unemployment.

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    • CarrierLost@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My dude, I wish you nothing but the best of luck. It’s hell out there, but don’t let it get to you. You’re worth it and will find what you need.

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  • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jobs at Valve or Meta are very demanding and people can usually only cope with it if your life is your job and the many hours don‘t feel like working. These people are obsessed with what they are doing. It can be very soul crushing if you either loose that passion or want to have a life outside your job (like friends, a romantic partner, a time intensive hobby etc.).

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    • NanoooK@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any source for that?

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• SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Small was in regards to the number of people they employ. Valve runs a lean ship of a few hundred.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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?

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very cool! You known what would also be cool? Releasing the damn thing!

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Given the current chip market there’d be a 400+ USD upcharge from the previously stated price of “below the (Valve) Index”

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    • zedgeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s upcharge? Is that like updog?

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    • DeLancre@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right and in a year it will be outdated + overpriced hardware, rather than just overpriced. Like, steam box haven’t teached you a thing?

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They have to finish HL3 first so that it has a launch title worthy of a new platform.

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s great if you can work for a company that hires the actual smart people instead of management.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am extremely hopeful about steam frame. Wikipedia says it will still run linux.

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ofc it’s going to run Linux, it’s default OS is going to be some variant of SteamOS

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eyup. ARM Linux.

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    • madmantis24@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    collabora.com/…/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-po…

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• Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meta’s push towards virtual and augmented reality has clearly been a massive failure from the billions they invested into the “metaverse” only to come up with a shitty VRChat clone that lasted mere months. Meanwhile the only reason they’re really in the news lately is because they stole Google’s failed smart glasses concept, paired up with Ray-Ban and made the ultimate tool for creeps to record and harass women without their consent.

  Valve are wise to poach their talent who have undoubtedly been throigh wave after wave of mass layoffs. The only other more significant hire they could have made was somehow bringing the fourth-dimensional being housed in a meatsuit known as John Carmack on board. But he’s busy with AGI.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    According to the article linked, she left Meta already in 2022 (anticipating the layoffs that followed soon after). Still a good talent for Valve to pick up now that they got into wireless VR with the Frame.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just imagine Carmack at Valve. Immediate singularity

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  • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t give you anything more than an upvote, so here’s a positive comment on your insightfulness/accuracy +1

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• smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t it be great if turning that giant valve actually did something. Like…I dunno, someone in the next room shouts “turn that back on right now !”

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    there should be a so that says “Do not turn valve”

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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It shuts off all the water to the toilets.

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• randoot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love it when people demolish stereotypes. Nice work.

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  • cinoreus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What stereotypes?

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    • teslekova@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People with glasses can’t work in VR!

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That engineers can’t have awesome style obviously. Too long have we suffered under the burden that we all dress like dweebs, sometimes with a really bad attempt at dressing cool, but here she is actively challenging that stereotype

      (But fr I absolutely love the skirt + leather jacket look and am making a note to try it at some point)

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    • raptore39@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That Half Life 3 isn’t coming out

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    • randoot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly, what stereotypes indeed. Let them rot.

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    • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You don’t know any?

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    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The ones with baseless assumptions from a bygone era.

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• girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ohhh! I like that!!! Fuck Meta!

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• nope@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Neat

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• GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Congratulations to her on getting the job

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• Ertain@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s cool that she was hired. Let’s hope more VR hardware is released from Valve in the near future.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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*

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  • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because translating x86 to ARM will kick Microsoft while they’re already down. This is just the justification to the means.

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    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Especially when they want to sell it alongside the Steam Machine.

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  • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just want a movie watching device that makes it feel like I’m in a theater. So I guess I’m agreeing with you, how do we get this

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  She has a lovely smile, I hope she enjoys her time there

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She does! She should smile more! /s

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• Alcan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Amanda after 15 mins: wait, don’t we want to steal every piece of data of every user??

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While the steam hardware survey is opt in, it is still data harvesting lol

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    • TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, but consent always makes things feel different.

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• eyekaytee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  why does this have so many upvotes? when did a bunch of neets turn this place into linkedin

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Says a lot about you that, of all of her achievements and qualifications, and the fact that she not just revolutionized but practically created the field of wireless VR… you get stuck on her being a woman.

    God’s menagerie is vast, but the fences are low.

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    • eyekaytee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      im not questioning the woman im questioning the number of upvotes for such a boring and meaningless post

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never considered it before, but do you think she might? Maybe pat me on the head and call me a good boy?

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    • eyekaytee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      maybe in the metaverse

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  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A mix between r/UpvotedBecauseOfGirl and r/UpvotedForRepresenationOfWomenExcellenceInSTEM

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  • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I up voted because I want to see how the Steam Frame turns out and this is good news for that.

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• nodiratime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good for her. And for us!

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• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very elementary!

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She is giving me Dr Who vibes in that photo.

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    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Possibly a Whovian.

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• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    did you forget that Linux exists?

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    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are multiple such projects, for example: wiki.vronlinux.org/docs/fossvr/stardust/

    But the same wiki mentions a few more.

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    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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?

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  • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think Macs Vison Pro was somewhat geared for productivity. Might be sorta what youre talking about.

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• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is going on with her cheek? It is swollen and looks like she just had a tooth extracted.

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes people have different faces than everyone else. It happens a lot, actually.

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Source?

      ~/s~

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, I’ve found the target audience for the DLSS5 instagram filter!

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  • redwattlebird@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s just the lighting. Don’t overthink it.

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• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cool!

  Now get to work Amanda, the Internet demands more cool shit from Valve!

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• ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even valve is poachin’ gee whilickers.

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• dan69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it true that their only like 5 engineers (exaggerated obviously and rule all of valve code)?

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• Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now if they hire Guy Godin as well, the wireless VR dream team will be complete

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