Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said that Microsoft currently does not see Valve competitor. We are talking about the field of virtual reality. At the last conference for developers Game Developers Conference 2015 theme of virtual reality has been one of the main.
Valve showed a virtual reality helmet Vive HTC , Sony has Project Morpheus , Oculus continues to work on Rift, and Microsoft has not only revealed at the show nothing of the sort. During the conversation with the resource Eurogamer Phil Spencer said that although Microsoft has augmented reality helmet Hololens, the company does not exclude the entry into the race a virtual reality.
"Augmented reality that we receive through the Hololens, offers a unique set of features and technologies, but this does not prevent us from moving in the direction of virtual reality, creating their own or using third-party products," - said Phil Spencer.
Chapter Xbox strongly welcomes the virtual reality and the efforts that companies make in this direction, but it is not certain that this area will now become a viable product for end users. Phil also asked about what he thinks about the movement toward Valve Steam Machines and Steam Link, and whether he sees it as a threat for the Xbox One. Spencer recalled the history of Microsoft and Valve, expressing admiration for how the latter looks at the market and what kind of work carried out when creating PC-ecosystem over the past 20 years, while Microsoft did not put in enough effort this area.
"I believe that each of us has enough innovation to offer their gamers. Ori and the Blind Forest - it's one of the games that we have released this month and which was published on Steam. Within 5 years from now you will have opportunity to buy games on Steam and store Windows. We constantly negotiate with Valve. I think they are one of the major independent software developers for Windows, and they are always open to feedback. Is the company a competitor? Maybe it's waiting for us in the future "- said Phil Spencer.
