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I lie awake at night and wonder, what if valve made competitive VR hardware, instead of the steamdeck?

It's clear the r&d is heavily in oculus's favor, and nobody is showing up to play. Even valves new headset is marketing fluff- "reading brain waves" doesn't work how they advertise it.

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Oculus sells their hardware at a loss, and make up for it by selling your data.

Valve doesn't care about being competitive. They're not market driven. They hire the best engineers possible, and let them work on what they want.

Sometimes that comes together in something beautiful (Alyx, Index) sometimes it results in something out of touch (steam machines) and sometimes it results in unending development hell.

> Oculus sells their hardware at a loss, and make up for it by selling your data.

Source?

What facebook does is worse than selling your data, but they rely upon people saying they sell your data, which they can deny, to hide what they actually do, which is analyze your data to sell behavior modification products.

Valve has the advantage of not being a feeding tube for a bloated, predatory social network.

Because it already is one.

The other major advantage is that they’re not publicly traded which forces you to do unsavory things to chase analyst quarterly forecasts

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