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First thing we should be talking about is what Gabe talked about in his interview with Penny Arcade. but most of us will need to take a moment to admire Gabe's new beard. I contacted Gabe and he confirmed it's a personal SteamGuard upgrade for those with extra sensitivity to the cold in the wintry months. Stay tuned for more.
In the interview Gabe talked about their work on wearable computers and their biometrics work.
His thoughts on the direction of consoles were also intriguing, talking about much of the innovation coming from the PC space and whoever embraces newer and more fluid attitudes will see "huge benefits".
An engaging interview of the inner workings of Gabe Newell's brain (and beard), check it out here.
In the interview Gabe talked about their work on wearable computers and their biometrics work.
It seems like just about the time that everybody gave up on them they actually started to become interesting, so w've been seeing a lot of stuff go on in that space that gets us excited.
We're trying to get our?the experiments we?ve been doing in?you know we did a ton of work on biofeedback, on biometrics, and that?ll, you know, from our point of view we were like ?okay, this is all sort of proven out? and we?re just sort of scratching our heads trying to figure out the best way to get that hardware out to customers without something where we?d just say ?okay, this works.?
His thoughts on the direction of consoles were also intriguing, talking about much of the innovation coming from the PC space and whoever embraces newer and more fluid attitudes will see "huge benefits".
It?s not the games that are out there today, it?s the games that we don?t ? haven?t even thought of yet that are gonna end up being important. I would push them very hard to stop thinking of themselves as being a platform for everything that already exists and start betting on the inventiveness and the benefits that you would get by embracing a more open approach to the internet and game delivery and game business models and things like that.
An engaging interview of the inner workings of Gabe Newell's brain (and beard), check it out here.