{"id":5971,"date":"2025-04-09T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5971\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:57:08","slug":"heres-the-secret-steam-machine-that-valve-probably-used-to-test-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5971\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the secret Steam Machine that Valve probably used to test headsets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Apr 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the secret Steam Machine that Valve probably used to test headsets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Jon Bringus isn\u2019t saying how he obtained this unicorn, but it looks completely legit!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It self-IDs as a \u201cValve Steambox,\u201d fires up a Steam screen, makes Steam hardware sounds, and natively pairs with Steam Controllers! Intriguing components inside, like a presence-sensing front panel that fires up its iconic ring light. It appears to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/17\/17583362\/virtuallink-vr-headsets-oculus-valve-microsoft-connect-usb-c-cable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a VirtualLink USB-C port<\/a>, so it probably helped Valve designers test wired VR headsets before that standard failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Apr 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM UTC Here\u2019s the secret Steam Machine that Valve probably used to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[77,1685,1583,12,3282,326,53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-5971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-gaming","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pc-gaming","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-virtual-reality","18":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114308831295263164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}