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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
(www.theverge.com)
Suddenly this makes way more sense
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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We could build Sword Art Online, but I think we all know that this technology will be used to beam ads directly into your head 24/7. You won't be able to sleep because of the penis enhancement ads.
I'm hoping if it's headed by Gabe's efforts it will be relatively clean. Guess only time will tell.
Nah, it's GabeN.
Half Life: Alyx Episode 2 will be coming straight into your brain.
It’s wild how Lemmy gamers and others treat Steam as if it’s a noble corporation and Gabe is THEIR billionaire so he can’t possibly be bad. The fact that he’s a billionaire is proof that he underpaid and stole from everyone below him. There are no good billionaires, and Gabe is not your friend
I mean, it's hard to hate on someone who pays his people well, gives fun benefits, cultivates chill working culture and is overall simply a chill guy and whose big, fat marketshare comes from actually working for the customer.
Yeah. He could probably pay better or give more of his wealth into the society. Hell, prolly even should. But the fact is that among anyone else with that title, Gabe looks like a goddamn saint.
But yet he might be one of the beat billionaires in the pool of filth.
it's almost as if there may be room for something in between love and hate, black and white, good and evil
The fact that he is a billionaire does not mean that lol. He’s a billionaire because his company gets a cut of every sale of games on his platform, and his platform is the industry standard/default platform for digital distribution. He could be paying his employees a million a year to be a janitor and he’d still be a billionaire, no “stealing” and not one being underpaid.
Billionaires should not exist
That will be awesome for when my body dies, but I still want to be a brain in a jar playing MechWarrior.
"As part of your onboarding process, we're just going to implant your Company ID. That way, for your safety, we'll always know where you are. If you hear a buzzing sound, that means return to the office immediately. Reduced work speed will produce a mild reminder shock.
"Welcome to the Corporation."
Maybe they could use the implanted chip to wall off your non-work side when you enter your office so you're not distracted and fully focused on your job.
Then when you leave your work side gets blocked off so you can leave work at work. Automatic work/life balance.
They should make a big facility to test the implants
Maybe have an AI overseer, they could name it Gladys
Yperating System?
You'd need people to solve puzzles to really put the implant through its paces. Something involving blocks should be sufficiently simple to play around with while having lots of variation.
I’m only doing the brain chip thing if it can fully transplant me to a Matrix level of simulated reality and get me out of this current hellhole permanently.
Props to him for trying it himself instead of having someone else do it and take all the risk
Valve CEO Gabe Newell pretends to get a hole drilled into his head for a brain-computer interface.
I wish I could close or move windows around with my brain. It would be so nice.
"has long toyed with the idea that your brain should be more connected to your PC"
seems like billionaires' wet dream to be honest
But imagine how easy it would be to ~~track you~~ serve you more personalised ads.
"Alright, the implantation surgery was a success, now all we have to do is fire up the remote activation. Throwing the switch in three... two...
Wow Valve was on a great series of wins, this is a rare loss for them. Who wants this? Best case people will be sitting in meetings playing Half Life 3 in their brains. I don't really want that.
Quadriplegics. Epileptics. People with Parkinson's or multiple sclerosis.
we're a long fucking way from helping any of those people with this stuff. this is for all the multimillionaires out there.
We are currently helping people with this sort of tech
And how would you presume we reach a level that could help them without starting somewhere? Do you think this kind of tech just pops up, fully formed?
You're looking at this with a very closed mind. This isnt (currently) being designed for people to just do normal computer stuff but in their brain. This technology has huge potential for improving prosthetics and treating neurological disorders.
I want shit like this. I want to be a cyborg. I do not want them to kill hundreds of apes for it though.
Reminder: billionaires are apes... (For legal reasons, this is a joke)
If it gets me closer to Half-Life 3, then pipe that shit into my brains
Finally the logo makes sense
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