Half-Life 3 is gonna be full dive VR.
Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface
Submitted 11 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to technology@beehaw.org
https://futurism.com/neoscope/gaben-steam-bci-stealth
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Toes@ani.social 11 months ago
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Which implies that the brain-computer interface will never be viable as a product
admiralteal@kbin.social 11 months ago
You mean Half Life: Full Dive, followed by Half Life: Full Dive 2. The second in a trilogy never to be finished.
taanegl@beehaw.org 11 months ago
You’ll have to install it onto your soul, once again revolutionising the video game industry - and the world at large.
Gosh darn it, Newell. It’s too much winning. So much good faith. Leave some for the rest of us! Look at Elon! He’s dying over there!
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
shudders thinking about SAO
Toes@ani.social 11 months ago
Welcome to city 17, Kirito
eveninghere@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Imagine you lose the brain cells to quit the game. Instant isekai irl.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
First news I hear since hearing about Gabe working on BCIs and it’s just… An announcement of something that was already known. 😮💨
prole@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Man, the way that headline begins, I thought he had died.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just so we’re clear here, it’s the game marketplace called Steam. Not just, you know, steam.
kureta@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Before Gaben, there was only vapour. He invented, nay, created steam.
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As one eagle-eyed user on the site formerly known as Twitter pointed out earlier in the week, the website for Newell’s Neuralink competitor, Starfish Neuroscience, has been updated to reflect its forthcoming wares. Newell, who is president and cofounder of Steam’s parent company Valve, has also promoted the tech’s other, far more sci-fi-esque use cases — including, as he told a New Zealand news station back in 2021, the ability to edit one’s feelings. At the time, Gaben was working on developing a BCI headset, though it seems now that Starfish is, like its Elon Musk-founded competitor, interested in “minimally-invasive” brain implants. Besides bringing his BCI endeavor out of stealth, the famously reclusive billionaire has also been embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Steam is essentially running a monopoly on PC gaming and charging exorbitant fees in the process. He also, as the yachting blog Luxury Launches reported in February, sold his 220-foot megayacht, which he’d converted into a mobile hospital during the beginning of the pandemic. It’s clearly been an interesting few months for Gaben — though given that lawyers are collecting sign-ons for the class-action lawsuit against Steam, he may need some help raising money for Starfish once the settlements start being paid out. — Saved 54% of original text.
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
This is rather old news, predating Neuralink entirely even. There used to be an unlisted YouTube video by Gray(Grey?) Newell that showed off what they were working on back a few years ago, too.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 months ago
Yeah. I've been out of the loop apparently, because today was the first that I heard of it.
averyminya@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Haha glad that I brought it up on your radar! I like this one cause it seems much more medically oriented, vs. Neurolink existing “just because it can”.
Which normally, I don’t really have an issue with. I think it’s great to do things just because we can (within reason ofc!), but I am definitely more skeptical of the fraud-Hyperloop flamethrower space-car man.