Steam Developer Days løber af stablen i januar, og frem for at invitere pressen har Valve indbudt udviklere og skabere for at snakke software, hardware, spil og fremtiden.
En liste over talere viser at AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Oculus og Unity alle holder præsentationer, mens Valve vil tale om Steam Machines, SteamOS, Steam Controller og, overraskende nok, vise deres egenudviklede virtual reality-hardware.
Det er ikke første gang, vi hører om Valves forsøg ud i virtual reality-teknik. Sidste år skrev Stuart Isett fra The New York Times, at han havde testet hardwaren og havde følgende at sige:
"The goggles I'm wearing - reminiscent of the ones Google recently unveiled to much hoopla - could unlock new game-playing opportunities. This technology could let players lose themselves inside a virtual reality and, eventually, blend games with their views of the physical world."
Valve selv beskriver den kommende præsentation sådan her:
What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years
We've figured out what affordable Virtual Reality (VR) hardware will be capable of within a couple of years, and assembled a prototype which demonstrates that such VR hardware is capable of stunning experiences. This type of hardware is almost certainly going to appear in short order, and the time to starting developing for it is now. This talk will discuss what the hardware is like, and the kinds of experiences it makes possible. A few attendees will be randomly selected to try out the prototype following the talk.