Valve Working on Wearable Augmented Reality Computer

<p>In a blog post by Valve’s Michael Abrash&comma; perhaps in response to the Steam Box rumors&comma; stated that Valve is working on a wearable computing augmented reality computer&period; According to Abrush&comma; the project has just reached the research and development stage&comma; but it is expected to grow&period; He also called upon technical wizards to contact them to work on the project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Valve&comma; wearable computing overlays computer graphics onto the real world in your view&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;think Terminator vision&comma;” Abrash said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The logical endpoint is computing everywhere&comma; all the time – that is&comma; wearable computing – and I have no doubt that 20 years from now that will be standard&comma; probably through glasses or contacts&comma; but for all I know through some kind of more direct neural connection&period; And I’m pretty confident that platform shift will happen a lot sooner than 20 years – almost certainly within 10&comma; but quite likely as little as 3-5&comma; because the key areas – input&comma; processing&sol;power&sol;size&comma; and output – that need to evolve to enable wearable computing are shaping up nicely&comma; although there’s a lot still to be figured out&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perhaps Valve is working on a product similar to Google’s recently teased Project Glass&period; Abrash was quick to point out that they are simply in the R&amp&semi;D stage&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it doesn’t in any way involve a product at this point&comma; and won’t for a long while&comma; if ever – so please&comma; no rumors about Steam glasses being announced at E3&period;” He added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The process is very fast-moving and iterative&comma; and we’re just at the start&period; How far and where the investigation goes depends on what we learn&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Valve’s wearable computing R&amp&semi;D shows the possibility that they could be entering into the video game hardware space with a Steam Box or similar product&period; It could explain a job advertisement that showed up on Valve’s website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Valve is looking for an electronics engineer to help develop hardware to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;enhance” the gameplay it’s known for&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re not talking about me-too mice and gamepads here – help us invent whole new gaming experiences&comma;” according to the post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-04-16-valve-working-on-augmenting-your-reality-with-wearable-computing">EuroGamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;