While we\u2019re all sitting around waiting for Episode 3 to appear, Valve has been doing R&D for \u201cwearable computing\u201d, which sounds suspiciously like Bat-gear to me.<\/p>\n
According to Valve developer Michael Abrash, Valve has been picking up hardware engineers to do some serious research on these kinds of products.<\/p>\n
“The logical endpoint is computing everywhere, all the time – that is, wearable computing – and I have no doubt that 20 years from now that will be standard, probably through glasses or contacts, but for all I know through some kind of more direct neural connection. And I’m pretty confident that platform shift will happen a lot sooner than 20 years – almost certainly within 10, but quite likely as little as 3-5, because the key areas – input, processing\/power\/size, and output – that need to evolve to enable wearable computing are shaping up nicely, although there’s a lot still to be figured out,” Abrash wrote in a recent post.<\/p>\n
He does however make a point of saying this is in the early research stages, we\u2019re not going to actually see anything for a very long time.<\/p>\n
“To be clear, this is R&D – it doesn’t in any way involve a product at this point, and won’t for a long while, if ever – so please, no rumors about Steam glasses being announced at E3. It’s an initial investigation into a very interesting and promising space, and falls more under the heading of research than development. The Valve approach is to do experiments and see what we learn – failure is fine, just so long as we can identify failure quickly, learn from it, and move on – and then apply it to the next experiment. The process is very fast-moving and iterative, and we’re just at the start. How far and where the investigation goes depends on what we learn,” he explained.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m pretty sure if you can make the freaking Batmobile, you can make me my Episode 3. Get to it, Valve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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