Michael Abrash har lämnat Valve för att istället utveckla Oculus Rift med Oculus VR. I Oculus-bloggen skriver han om hur det var att utveckla Valves egna virtual reality-hårdvara jämte Oculus Rift och förklarar att den sista pusselbiten föll på plats när Facebook köpte upp Oculus VR förra veckan.
"The final piece of the puzzle fell into place on Tuesday. A lot of what it will take to make VR great is well understood at this point, so it's engineering, not research; hard engineering, to be sure, but clearly within reach."
"However, it's expensive engineering. And, of course, there's also a huge amount of research to do once we reach the limits of current technology, and that's not only expensive, it also requires time and patience - fully tapping the potential of VR will take decades. That's why I've written before that VR wouldn't become truly great until some company stepped up and invested the considerable capital to build the right hardware - and that it wouldn't be clear that it made sense to spend that capital until VR was truly great. I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff."
Abrash förklarar också att han nu förväntar sig att jobba med virtual reality-hårdvara under resten av sin karriär.
"That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR - and some of them are hard indeed. I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can."