Valve's first wave of Steam Labs experiments look oddly familiar

Almost eight years after Google shut down their experimental feature showcase, Google Labs, Valve have rolled out their own take on it for Steam. Steam Labs is a showcase of some of the “dozens of experiments around discoverability, video, machine learning, and more” that Valve produce for their store. So far, there’s three to poke around – “Micro Trailers”, “Interactive Recommender” and “Automatic Show” – and while the first two are useful, they’re not the freshest of ideas. The third is just a half-hour of machine-generated awkwardness. Check out the labs page here.

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