I hope Valve releases their own VR headset now, and locks Oculus out of Steam, with only their own VR headset being compatible. Valve has already done all the same research, and are even ahead of Oculus. I could see them turning it into a product by mid-2015, which is probably sooner than Oculus' own consumer version.
They don't need to lock out other headsets, that's kind of the opposite of their service model and philosphy. But they would have the advantage of controlling the distrobution platform, their in-house software/engine, and their hardware. Lots of advantages there, similar to Apple.
Theirs will likely become the superior product, organically.
I just hope they make it a hackable platform like they claim the steam controller will be, and like steamOS already kind of is. Because we can know for damn sure if there is profit opportunity in Occulus any openness about it will be stomped into the dirt.
