Hero’s Engine: a favorite engine in my collection and the very first steam engine ever devised, the Aeolipile is a radial steam jet reaction turbine, an invention attributed to Hero of Alexandria sometime between 10 and 70 AD. Water within the spherical container is heated to produce steam which exits through nozzles directed at right angles to the radial direction, and by Newton’s third law the steam ejected by these jets produce a torque about the rotation axis. There is no historical record o

Valve is bringing headsets back, and not just for VR! This is the Steam Frame, and it one-ups Meta Quest by playing flat Windows games on its Arm chip too. Kind of like a Steam Deck for your face that gives you a private virtual room! For VR lovers, it cuts the cord and bypasses your busy Wi-Fi with a direct 6GHz link to your PC. Price, local performance, battery all still TBD, though! #valve #pcgaming #vr #steam | The Verge

Today on The Vergecast, The Verge’s Sean Hollister joins us to talk about the new Steam Machine, a 6-inch cube that runs Windows games, but without Windows at the helm. #vergecast #windows #steam #pcgaming | The Verge

The new Steam Controller is PREMIUM #valve #steam #steamdeck #steammachine #gaming #controller | IGN

Here's what we know about Valve's latest take on a gaming "console," the Steam Machine! #valve #STEAM #steammachine #gaming #PCGaming #tech | IGN

Valve has a new hardware ecosystem! #PCGamer #Valve #Steam #Steamdeck | PC Gamer