Ellsworth is hoping to have [a beta] for the team's first product in the coming year -- we'll of course know much more about the product by then, she says. Internal beta tests are already underway, and a variety of the team's prototypes are available in the office for other Valve employees to tool around with. The next step is getting prototypes into gamers hands -- she says Valve already has a production line for short runs, making a beta possible -- and iterating on design before launch.Valve hired Jeri Ellsworth in early 2012, along with several other hardware hackers. She's a self-taught computer chip designer and entrepreneur, who sold over 250,000 units of a self-designed joystick with a built-in hardware Commodore 64 emulator.
Valve hopes to ready beta of its hardware project in 2013
Posted on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 19:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck