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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You would be surprised how much companies experiment behind the scenes, that you never see. Prototypes aren't actually the most expensive thing, so its totally doable, especially if you have lot of engineers hyped for that. Given that the teams at Valve produced hardware before, its only normal to get money for new experiments. Also the structure at Valve is a bit different than most companies.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure but they're saying it wasn't a prototype. At least not intended to be.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

Plans change and evolve. After the experiments looked good, more and more people got interested. Maybe the one guy who was successfull with previous hardware got involved and they started to see something bigger than anticipated. Its an organic growth. I mean I don't have any internal knowledge or anything, just trying to think how it could have went.