Gorgeous! It's a shame that CGI is so prevalent, because without context I would totally assume this was CGI. Some of the shots would fit right in with a Portal cutscene.<p>Imagine playing on the one in the center of the orb. It's the ultimate Steam Deck gaming throne.
I am continuously amazed at how awesome valve is and what awesome products it makes. Also steam supporting linux single handedly advanced adoption of that os. Apparently the best types of companies are those founded by deeply technical people, still owned and run by them, no venture capital. In an ideal world we would favour such companies over toxic ones.
This is awesome. Video production just takes so many hours for each second and I don't think people know how much work it takes until you help out on a shoot.
When I see things like that I always think about their lifecycle. The frame will be stripped of the devices for another display. It'll still hang around in some honored spot, then they'll get new staff and it will be shunted into storage. In 3 years it will be disassembled and tossed into the dumpster because no one will have room for it at home.
I love how each of the decks being a proper computer made this much easier to pull off. Like, driving a display in a dummy device would probably get you the same effect, and take longer. But that's likely the route a third-party production company would take.
Norm from Tested has a short vid on Twitter of him in the sphere:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/nchan/status/1722688222713749881" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/nchan/status/1722688222713749881</a>
On the note of OLED increasing battery life, does anyone know the max number of hours of gameplay you can get on a single charge when the game is as simple as "snake"?<p>I have searched for answers on reddit and Google etc but I have only found the number to be 8hrs which is not for low power games. Given steam runs Linux and is hacker friendly, one should be able to juice it for much much longer if only early retro games are played.
This ad brings out the inner kid in me (I'm 44 so, feeling a bit middle-aged here). I so want one badly but can't afford it and there's no way I'd be able to justify the purchase. Sad.
Great to see OBS also being used on this one - although I imagine setting up and configuring that many instances of OBS must have been a bit of a pain.