Mark Smith, Nvidia's senior technical evangelist, has posted a rather interesting blog post over at Nvidia.com expressing Nvidia's excitement over latest and upcoming announcements from Valve, including SteamOS and Valve's concept of the Living Room PC.

As being, according to Nvidia, one of the most innovative forces in the gaming industry, Valve certainly has enough power to succeeded with the SteamOS and the Living Room concept and since it is based on a version of Linux, something that Nvida has been quite keen in supporting, it is quite clear that Nvidia and Valve have common goals with the SteamOS, bringing PC games to the big screen.

According to the blog post, Nvidia has been already cooperating with Valve on SteamOS with a goal to deliver an "open-platform gaming experience with superior performance and uncompromising visuals directly on the big screen." Nvidia engineers at Valve have improved driver performance for OpenGL, optimized performance on Nvidia GPUs as well as helped to port Valve's library to SteamOS and tune it to lower latency between the controller and the screen.

The cooperation could certainly hint at future and possible involvement of Nvidia with the rumored Steam Box, a console-like device that Valve has been working for quite some time.



Source: Nvidia.com.