It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.

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Nowadays, though, the hardware competition has become much stronger, particularly in the "mini" segment that's seeing strong growth.

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Support services are being given to David Donatelli, who is in charge of enterprise sales of hardware, particularly for data centers.

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Tools developer Ben Grooters was particularly hands-on with his mother, Edith Bauer and step-father Andrew in a Google Hardware course.

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