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[Krevsin]

I'm still betting that SteamOS, being the "next evolution from Big Picture", is just a wrapper they have that lets you boot up your Linux device with your controller and go directly to the steam interface.

You say that like it is a bad thing.

bad humour aside, it probably will be exactly as you describe it.

[Sensei]

I didn't mean it to be good or bad, really- on the one hand I don't think it will do anything amazing (unless they get broader and better Linux game support, in which case, fuck yeah) and I don't think it will do anything terrible either.

[PanH]

or something like that ( 0 + 0 )

[ O + O ]
*cough* Sorry.

Well, there's just O + O in the circle, my parentheses were ... well parentheses.

Or I'm completely missing your point 

[Graknorke]

or something like that ( 0 + 0 )

[ O + O ]
*cough* Sorry.

Well, there's just O + O in the circle, my parentheses were ... well parentheses.

Or I'm completely missing your point 

Fayrik might have confused it with the [ O     ]

[timferius]

0+0 is obviously occulas rift support for their entire games librayr (get it? 0+0? looks like goggles?)

[Fayrik]

I apologise for my poor choice in wording.

But this is basically the difference between optimism and pessimism. None of those two outlooks are bad (as I said, your apprehensions are valid and you have every right to feel this way), but I just preffer to not speculate and see what I get when I get it instead of building up opinions based entirely on speculation.

.... and I just worded that poorly again, haven't I?

I don't see any bad wording there at all.
And, honestly, if you're not going to speculate, that's fine. I on the other hand enjoy running down every piece of information until there's nothing left... Frankly we should have run out of discussion points at least two pages ago but valve seem to have some sort of magic in making everything mysterious and deep.

Fayrik might have confused it with the [ O     ]

This is exactly what happened. I apologize.

I'm still betting that SteamOS, being the "next evolution from Big Picture", is just a wrapper they have that lets you boot up your Linux device with your controller and go directly to the steam interface.

If it were so simple, I would totally put Mint on dual boot on my laptop with that. Freakin' amazing.

In all honesty, I'll probably give it a virtualbox whirl so long as it's interface design doesn't follow that awful design theory that Google, Microsoft and... Everyone seem to enjoy so much. You know the "The user is an idiot and should have all unnecessary options hidden in the most obscure place or removed entirely where possible."

[Krevsin]

i think it will likely have a sort of a console vibe; everything accessible through menus easily navigatable with a controller.

[werty892]

Looks like 6 hours left till the next announcement. That's going to be 1 PM where I am.

[miauw62]

I'd also like to note that the screen containing the sun is called "home_content tv day 1". So it may very well change.
(The buttons are numbered per day, tough. Which isn't that much of an indicator, considering there's more than a day between them.)

[Glloyd]

"a variety of Steam gaming machines"

Well that was mildly unexpected. Now, speculations for the third announcement?

[kaian-a-coel]

So it's the consoles. Steamboxes. Yes, plural.

[Graknorke]

we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.

Related to the next announcement?

[10ebbor10]

we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.

Related to the next announcement?

Oculus rift Support? ... Probably not.

Possibly Valve bringing out it's own virtually reality system. Will we eyeball our shots now, or are we going for tongue controlled hardware?

[Krevsin]

Upgradeable consoles.

Gentlemen, the next step in console evolution has been achieved. And it has nothing to do with that social media bull.

[timferius]

Ok, so, it sounds like, reading the FAQ things, that you'll be able to stream from PC for any game that doesn't run on Steam OS, and play games directon the box for those that do. I'm hoping one of the retail options is a cheaper box designed just to stream, because that's all I want. Anyways, very cool. It makes sense, since valve seems to want to promote being very open source with it's things.