If virtual reality turns out to be a complete failure, Valve head\u00a0Gabe Newell would be fine with the outcome.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Polygon<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Newell said Valve is \u201ccomfortable\u201d with the possibility.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re optimistic. We think VR is going great. It\u2019s going in a way that\u2019s consistent with our expectations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re also pretty comfortable with the idea that it will turn out to be a complete failure.\u201d<\/p>\n Valve developed the HTC Vive VR system in partnership with\u00a0HTC and supports VR games on its online PC platform Steam.<\/p>\n Newell said there are around 1,300\u00a0VR-based applications on Steam, and\u00a030 of those have made more than $250,000 in revenue.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n If virtual reality turns out to be a complete failure, Valve head Gabe Newell would be fine with the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":101734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[697,6050],"class_list":["post-115495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-valve","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115497,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115495\/revisions\/115497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft will unveil Xbox Project Scorpio soon<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"