Regardless, it sounds like gamers will have a chance to give feedback on those designs, as Valve's hardware team is planning a beta for its various products.
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The project team will build and beta-test new features and tools for entrepreneurs and businesses with the purpose of cutting red tape, increasing efficiency, and supporting American businesses and American jobs.
The Redbox Instant video streaming service recently let eager users kick down the doors of its beta test, and now the team behind it has stepped out to talk about its unique feature set.
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The team also looked at levels of beta-amyloid in the brains.
The lessons learned by the team, and by having it in private beta with thousands of active users, have been incorporated into what they released.
In the current study, his team found that there was more amyloid-beta accumulation during the night hours, when mice are typically awake, compared to daytime hours.
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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.
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Working in tandem with Steam's newly beta'd " Big Picture Mode, " Ellsworth's team is creating a hardware solution to the control barriers found in many Steam games.
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Razer Game Booster is in internal closed beta, but fans have the opportunity to be part of an exclusive team of testers.
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So we think it's both an attractive region and for beta, for market returns, we're incredibly fortunate to have this very strong team on the ground.
The beta version of Gov.UK has been live for most of the year, so the team has had time to test and work out the kinks.
The casual nature of that relationship is reflected in Valve's attitude about releasing the new mode -- Team Fortress 2's VR-enabling update in the coming weeks is essentially a giant beta test in which Valve will measure and analyze the way TF2 players interact with virtual reality hardware.
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