I don’t understand why no one is talking about Linux on stand-alone VR headsets. Valve’s hardware team has been very busy, designing the Vive in 2016 and the k

I don’t understand why no one is talking about Linux on stand-alone VR headsets. Valve’s hardware team has been very busy, designing the Vive in 2016 and the knuckles controller in 2017. They’ve said they are working on multiple full length VR games, but that they wanted to be able to design the hardware (knuckles) and the games together a la Nintendo. This is public knowledge. It’s also known that Oculus is releasing two standalone VR devices in the next couple years. Valve has a headset, controllers, and a Linux OS. It seems obvious to me where this is all going: a stand-alone Valve VR device running SteamOS. Of course they’re not investing in screen-based games and desktop Linux boxes. They’re perfectly positioned to release a medium-defining device in a green field new computing paradigm. They are at least as well positioned in this fight as Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple. That’s the big leagues. Valve makes good money on Steam, but not that kind of money. And you know Apple and Microsoft aren’t going to use Linux. So having Valve means there’s a Linux horse in the VR race.