{"id":86127,"date":"2016-02-11T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86127"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:41:36","slug":"valves-gabe-newell-is-actually-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/86127-valves-gabe-newell-is-actually-oprah","title":{"rendered":"Valve&#8217;s Gabe Newell is actually Oprah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a size thing, nor is it a money thing; we hope you weren&#8217;t thinking that.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, much like Oprah, the mighty Gaben is known for doing a lot of good for the community \u2013 in this case that community is gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fantastic Steam sales, Valve and Gaben have demonstrated an incredible amount of foresight, introducing systems and standards we can&#8217;t imagine not being in place in the gaming community.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Gaben finally gets to give a bunch of stuff away&#8230; for free. It&#8217;s good stuff too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2ekteuHBi4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And our third announcement, I get to have my Oprah moment, all the developers at the Vision Summit get their own Vive. You get a Vive. You get a Vive. [Crowd bursts into applause and cheering] You get a Vive. And you get a Vive. I&#8217;m very excited to see what you guys come up with and I hope you enjoy it,&#8221; he said. Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/watch-santa-give-away-vive-headsets-like-oprah\/1100-6434692\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event in question took place at the recent Unity Vision Summit, during a discussion about augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR respectively).<\/p>\n<p>As you know, Valve co-developed the Vive headset, and pre-orders will open February 29th.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/86109-a-malware-going-around-is-targeting-hearthstone-cheaters-and-hackers.html\">A malware going around is targeting Hearthstone cheaters and hackers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/86073-ubisoft-denies-that-the-division-for-pc-is-intentionally-being-held-back.html\">Ubisoft denies that The Division for PC is intentionally being held back<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86017-cheap-usb-type-c-cables-may-kill-your-pc-avoid-them.html\">Cheap USB Type-C cables may kill your PC: avoid them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve and the mighty Gaben have demonstrated an incredible foresight, introducing standards we can&#8217;t imagine not being in place in the gaming community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":86129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[981,13341,15397,17253,697,6050],"class_list":["post-86127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-gabe-newell","tag-htc-vive","tag-pc","tag-steam-vr","tag-valve","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86127","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}