Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-paid Steam revenue

Re:Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-pai... by agildehaus on Friday June 17, 2016 @09:08PM (#11926511)

Oculus is backed by Facebook. You cannot in any way frame them to be small, or at any existential risk.

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Re:Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-pai... by cma on Friday June 17, 2016 @09:53PM (#11926630)

And even ignoring Facebook I think Oculus actually has more employees than Valve at this point.

Zuckerberg mentions the number in this stream, I think it was around 700 or so employees, but can't remember for sure: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/137176-watch-mark-zuckerberg...

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Re:Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-pai... by pyronite on Friday June 17, 2016 @11:18PM (#11926882)

In the video Mark Zuckerberg says "we have about 400 people working on this now" at 0:50 in.

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Re:Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-pai... by cma on Saturday June 18, 2016 @02:44AM (#11927386)

Thanks for finding that. Wikipedia says Valve had 330 as of 2013, so Valve most likely slightly outnumbers them. Hardly David vs. Goliath in headcount/organization size though. Though of course you have to be aware HTC is the production scale out.

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Re:Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-pai... by jn1234 on Saturday June 18, 2016 @04:48AM (#11927624)

It's laughable how outclassed Oculus is by Valve. If Valve were to release Half-Life 3 as an exclusive on Vive, Oculus as a gaming headset would be toast.

Valve has some of the most valuable franchises (Dota 2, Team Fortress, Portal etc) around and are under-utilizing them, not to mention they operate the largest PC gaming distribution platform.

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