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"That being said, it makes me laugh a little to see that Valve and the HTC Vive managed to outpace Oculus." It was the other way around. Valve had been working
by pipio21 10y ago
"That being said, it makes me laugh a little to see that Valve and the HTC Vive managed to outpace Oculus."
It was the other way around. Valve had been working in VR for years before the first oculus prototype. Oculus contacted Steam and copied the tech they had. The Steam guys actually helped Luckey because it was the small guy doing the open source thing.
They did not take into account the selloff to facebook of all this information.
- dkonofalski 10y agoI don't know how much stock I put into this. If you're going based off of what Yates said in that Reddit interview, I'd take that with a grain of salt. Palmer was working on a 3D head mounted display back in 2010/2011 and Valve has only admitted to VR research since 2012/2013. That's not to say that they couldn't have worked on it before then, but Palmer wasn't involved at that point. He also was only working on a 3D headset and wasn't initially planning on a VR headset from what I understand. On top of that, Oculus definitely had more marketing/media buzz so they were ahead of Valve in the consumer mind. The end product might be closer to Valve's than to his original prototype, but he definitely had a small head start on them for the prototype and a huge head start from a marketing perspective. Valve all but shattered that. Here's Palmer's first announcement in like 2012: http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777 http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777
- rasz_pl 10y agoThis is simply not true. Valve had precisely ZERO VR research up until 2012. Thats when they finally decided to pursue hardware and hired Jeri Ellsworth to build hardware division.