Welp, looky there, an expansion port right on the bridge of the headset with PCIE compatibility.
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It is nitpicking, but in legal terms you could say he has shares in the company but not stocks. Stocks refers specifically to publicly traded shares, that is to say shares sold on a stock market. Shares is the more broad term as it can refer not only to stocks but also private equity units of various types. Valve is a Limited Liability Corporation, or LLC, which have Membership Units as the type of shares held by owners, which differs from stocks both in terms of tax treatment and limitations on how they can be transacted.
Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.
aren't I glad I just bought an Onn instead.
@andros_rex my boi. But do you Bifo?
on the flip side, a wifi 7 access point, firewall, NAS, server, and network switch in this performance range are going to cost a bit more by my reckoning. I do see your point about repairability and reliability, one power supply for all of it could be problematic.
As far as security, couldn't most of what you mentioned be effectively achieved in software if implemented correctly? Looking at the company website, that seems to be their primary focus area.
I don't see it in the hardware design, but from a software perspective the groundwork is there for modularity. Offloading the core compute to the PC frees up onboard processing to run peripherals like full color front cameras (onboard are black and white / IR) and more advance proximity detection, hell hook up lidar and go nuts with full body tracking.
That said, all of that would depend on decent I/O. 2x USB4 ports would go a long way.
It days right in the marketing text that the headset is "a PC" which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.
I remain convinced they have held back budget on AI because they are waiting for the bubble to burst so they can buy one of the bigger developers like Anthropic. Why burn a bunch of cash now just to loose the race when at the end of the day Open Source options might come out competitive or one of the leaders in the space can be bought out once valuations hit a reality check?
It's too bad it leaves the door open for age verification requirements, but the language is overall pretty decent.
It is actually an old and well established britishism