09-09-2012 10:33
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Poca gente deja Valve. Normalmente pasa porque un padre enfermo necesita ayuda. Una vez mudaron al padre de un empleado al área de Seattle donde pudo recibir mejor tratamiento para el cancer.
Cita:On Monday, the company will begin a public test of a new television-friendly interface, Big Picture, for buying Steam games and playing them on computers in the living room.El lunes empezará la Beta de Big Picture, un sistema para Steam para jugar en el salón.
Cita: Now Valve executives think they may be onto the next big thing in games: wearable computing. The goggles IÔÇÖm wearing ÔÇö reminiscent of the ones Google recently unveiled to much hoopla ÔÇö could unlock new game-playing opportunities. This technology could let players lose themselves inside a virtual reality and, eventually, blend games with their views of the physical world.Valve trabaja en unas gafas para juegos de realidad aumentada, Tienen que descubrir como mezclar de manera estable una imagen en una pancarta mientras el jugadr se mueve.
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While GoogleÔÇÖs glasses will display texts and video conferences, Valve has greater technical challenges to overcome with augmented-reality games. It has to figure out how to keep stable an image of a virtual object (say, a billboard) that is meant to be attached to a real-world object (the side of a building) while a player moves around. Otherwise, the illusion would be shattered.
Cita:A few years ago, a Valve hire who had worked in special effects in Hollywood balked at wheeling his desk. The news reached Mr. Newell, who promptly picked up the desk himself and carried it to the new location, to the new employeeÔÇÖs embarrassment.Hace unos años contrataron a alguien que trabajó en efectos especiales en Hollywood que se negó a mover su mesa. La noticia llegó a Gabe que cogió su mesa y lo llevó a junto del nuevo para su vergüenza. El hombre se fue de Valve.
The man, whom Valve declined to name, is no longer with the company.
Cita:In an interview in a conference room at ValveÔÇÖs headquarters, Mr. Newell says that relatively few people have left Valve over the years. When they do, itÔÇÖs often because a sick parent needs help. In one case, Valve moved an employeeÔÇÖs parents to the Seattle area, where one of them was also able to receive better cancer treatment.
ÔÇ£I get freaked out any time one person leaves,ÔÇØ says Mr. Newell, a bearded bear of a man with John Lennon-style glasses. ÔÇ£It seems like a bug in the system.ÔÇØ
Poca gente deja Valve. Normalmente pasa porque un padre enfermo necesita ayuda. Una vez mudaron al padre de un empleado al área de Seattle donde pudo recibir mejor tratamiento para el cancer.
Cita:Valve has an eclectic work force. The company became interested in hiring one artist only after learning that his pastime was spray-painting graffiti art in Britain. It recently hired Leslie Redd, a school administrator, to lead an effort to use ÔÇ£PortalÔÇØ to teach physics and other subjects in schools by offering a more engaging way to present ideas like escape velocity. Ms. Redd said that more than 2,000 teachers worldwide had registered to use the game in classes.Reclutaron a un artista al descubrir que pintaba graffitis en su tiempo libre.┬á También a Leslie Redd una adminsitradora de escuelas para ayudarles a usar Portal para eneseñar.
Cita:ÔÇ£At one point, I said a hardware lab could be very expensive, it could be like a million dollars,ÔÇØ she recalled. ÔÇ£Gabe said, ÔÇÿThatÔÇÖs it?ÔÇÖ ÔÇØUna vez, le dije que poner un laboratorio de hardware podía ser muy caro, que podría llegar a costar un millón de dólares. Gabe dijo, ¿nada más?
Cita:Last year, the company had a dust-up with Electronic Arts over SteamÔÇÖs policy of taking a cut of all revenue generated from a game, like the sale of virtual goods, even after a player has bought the game. As a result, E.A. is not selling a number of its latest games through Steam.El año pasado tuvo un encontronazo con EA porque Steam quiere cobrar su parte de todo los beneficios generados por un juego, como las ventas de objetos virtuales. Valve dice que sin ella los desarrolladores podrían poner juegos gratis y cobrar más tarde por contenido adicional.
Valve says that without such a policy, developers could easily game the Steam system by making all their software free and charging consumers for additional content later. It is worth pointing out, too, that E.A. last year began competing directly against Steam by starting its own online game store, Origin.