Valve announces SteamVR, debuting at next week’s Game Developers Conference

This seemed like a no-brainer as soon as Oculus sold out to Facebook. Instead they waited until they lost Michael Abrash to decide whether they are actually going to build commercial VR glasses or not. Bad move there, but hopefully they will unveil something competitive, at least on the hardware side.

If I were Valve, I would immediately ban any previous Oculus Rift support in the Steam store as well. It's the only way for SteamVR to make itself competitive this late in the game. Otherwise, unless the hardware really is radically better than Oculus Rift (seems improbable) they won't have a big enough competitive edge to catch-up to Oculus in terms of developer support and user critical mass.

Besides, why support Oculus Rift after selling out to Facebook and stealing your best VR guy anyway? Facebook will only screw over Valve some more in the future once Oculus Rift gets big enough and Facebook doesn't need Valve anymore.