I'm hype for the steam frame. I want an index upgrade so bad.
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I'm mostly stoked about this new ARM support. Gaming hardware is going to see a big shift I suspect
And the next shift will be when they use ARM for the Steam Deck 2 once FEX has a lot of games/quirks worked out
I dont think there are any arm socs that are faster than the current steam deck
The M2 is like twice the performance
Apple really does have a crazy hardware division. I wish their software was anywhere near as appealing. They could do a good job of kicking Qualcomm into actually making something useful if they chose to license their M series chips
I think I'm gonna buy this second hand this time.
I've always bought valve HW new and even preordered most of them, but in the current financial climate, I think I'm gonna wait a bit.
I do have a wifi7 access point already wired with this in mind, though.
Doesn't it come with its own WiFi access point dongle thingy?
The dongle itself is WiFi 6. You need a WiFi 7 AP to use it without the dongle.
The dongle operates in the 6GHz band. It's not necessarily WiFi 6, AFAIK.
Where was it confirmed that you'd need a WiFi 7 AP if you're not using the dongle? The WiFi 7 standard doesn't even need to come with 6Ghz (which is really stupid and confusing) so you could have WiFi 7 and still be limited to 2.4 / 5Ghz.
I'm dying to get back into VR, have around 150 VR games i'd like to get back into with controllers that aren't drift prone.
For those of us that didn't follow VR, which controllers are drift prone.
From a non-VR perspective, the switch controller I own suck and drift. Is it that bad as well on that front?
I never was very hyped about VR, but the Steam Deck has liberated me from my office chair, and I suspect the frame will be an extension of this freedom for me. As soon as I can pre-order one, I will. I've been saving my money for this thing since the first announcement.
Do we have any idea how much the whole kit will set us back?
Machine+frame+controller
The only concrete information we've gotten was in the interviews when it was announced, where we were promised "less than Valve Index". Unfortunately that's rather vague, as it's unclear whether they meant Index, Index+controllers, or Index+controllers+tracking stations.
I'm assuming the price will be approximately what Index+Controllers is, maybe a bit more. You can see those prices in your region by looking up the Valve Index on steam.
It sounds like the machine will have a few versions, presumably just different specs so that's up in the air. With the stocking issues that I'm sure will affect all 3 I don't expect any kind of bundle right away so 99 USD for the controller. The frame has more going for it than my hp reverb g2 and that was 600 years back. I'd have to assume at least 1000, maybe upwards of 1500?
So maybe 2600 on the upper end if I guess the machine is 1000? I don't know though because ram is still sky high so my brain isn't wired for that.
I would be extremely surprised if the frame costs more at lanuch than the index, which was $1000.
I went higher in my guess than I would've just because the state of things at the moment. I would love it if I was wrong since I plan on getting one. If I ignore that I probably would've guessed around 800-1100.
Why is that? I would think so e compute being included kind of makes inherently more expensive
Yeah, but the Index had 2 ~$150 lighthouses. Not that $300 is enough to cover the cost of the compute, but it's one area of "savings" compared to the Index.
Economies of scale plus a few years for the VR market to mature. Plus no lighthouses
I really want a Linux DE that can take advantage of this. Virtual desktops and multiple monitors are nice but this is potentially so much better.
I'm just excited for Lepton which will hopefully demonstrate the stupidity of kernel level anticheat when it will allow Linux users to play Fortnite for a couple of hours before Epic inevitably starts monkeypatching their android port lol.
I can't wait to box or duel people in VR. I hope VR devs are encouraged to make VR games 🤞
Looking forward for it, both because the ARM support, since I no longer play on the Deck but on my Android tablet via Game Native, and, if not too expensive or scalpel, for the headset itself. I'm interested both in VR and in using it as Far for regular controller games on the couch.
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