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The next Xbox has made this upcoming Valve headset look like a steal at that price point.
There is plenty if you know where to look. I already have a 50+ VR game backlog, and that's without counting neat stuff like VR mods, emulators, etc.
I believe FortNite and WOW have native Windows on ARM builds. Might be few others too.
I disagree. I've been a huge advocate for VR since I backed the original Oculus on kickstarter, and I think a vast majority of VR games are one-offs or just garbage.
Meta Quest has some good exclusives. Batman: Arkham Shadow
I honestly wasn't a fan. It felt more like a console game trying to masquerade as a VR game to me. But I do realize a lot of people liked it.
I hope it connects via displayport as well though.
It's probably a translation layer similar to what Apple did (Rosetta 2) when they transitioned from Intel to their own chips (which are ARM-based). But that was using both software AND hardware (they had some stuff on their M-chips for this) and did shit like ahead-of-time compilation of x86_64 assembly to ARM and stuff. But still, that was intended as a workaround until devs provided native M-compiled binaries for their apps. My guess would be that Valve might have a bespoke fork of QEMU, using KVM, throwing all the things away they don't need and add stuff they do need for games (or to make the translation faster). That's at least how I would tackle that problem. Ideally, you'd obviously want devs to ship ARM binaries, though.
I do think that there must be a way to stream x86 from a regular PC. Otherwise things a non starter.
Oh yeah. I mean, if you just plug the headset into your PC, it's essentially just running using your PC hardware, like all the previous headsets. So the ARM chip inside won't run the games, they would run on your PC.
Hopefully wireless access is available.
I found HL Alyx to be incredible underwhelming: small corridors, repetitive enemies with limited physics, non-interactive world, no real jumping and platforming.
I want it to cost more. No compromises and no LCD
Done. Now it costs $1800, just like the Samsung headset.
I couldn't agree more.
It will have both, it's going to be strong enough to play half life alyx and half life 3 stand alone though
Valve hardware is more of just an option, because it's only sold through Steam, you aren't going to see their hardware on Amazon and Best Buy and such
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HL Alyx runs on my old GTX 1080ti, Cellphone sadness gaming in 2025.
That would be great. Hopefully they have a dongle. Otherwise that will be a WiFi 7 mandatory upgrade.
If the VR thing is next in the pipeline, and then Fremont a year or 2 after that you could be waiting quite a while for Steamdeck 2. I'm guessing since Valve already has a third party Steamdeck out on the market there in no rush to make another one of their own. Probably looking for more takers on that front I assume. Why bother making hardware, let someone else make it and Valve will profit from the Steam Storefront.
I've used avp, quest pro, index, psvr2, quest 2 and quest 3. The uoled are worlds better. Even with the cons, because LCD has a million more cons.No I want LCD for now in immediate future.
There's too many disadvantages with microLED for now.
The displays are so expensive and tiny for starters. This makes it that the stack of optical to even have decent FOV from a ~1" display means you're fucking up the display quality anyway, glare and distortion. High FOV >120° forget it. Also price are so high that you cannot reasonably have 4K x 4K.
They're also slower, in the 75~90Hz range. And again, since microOLED panels have exceptionally fast pixel response times, it creates another problem, motion persistence. To counter this problem they reduced greatly the brightness of the panels anyway which combined with pancake lenses (13% of light makes it through) it becomes too dim of an image. Or use black frame insertion to compensate for low brightness but leads to motion smearing. If you want HDR they are troublesome to cool down and you have have longevity issues.
So while the technology is inevitable microOLED in the future, right now its full of compromises.
Now deckard prototypes have used JDI panels, likely not this model, but look what they have now
You remove all cons from microOLED, much better optic quality because the panel is large, easily can achieve double the panel size of a microOLED, 4K x 4K, high refresh rate >120Hz, high brightness for compensating the dimming effect of pancake lenses, wide FOV at 130°, good PPD.
More importantly, local dimming like the Sony TVs now do. You'll get ~98% of the OLED blacks but without all the cons.
Rumour is dongle included or at the least existing and maybe sold separately depending on your network at home situation.
But even some peoples have tried the beta of Steam Link 2.0 because some chinese headset had the software included and peoples made it work on wifi 6 networks and the quality still beats displayport. Valve did witchcraft with the algorithm, but it requires eye tracking.
So deckard 100% certain has eye tracking.
What OLED screens does the psvr 2 use? Whatever it is they are able to get it cheapNo I want LCD for now in immediate future.
There's too many disadvantages with microLED for now.
The displays are so expensive and tiny for starters. This makes it that the stack of optical to even have decent FOV from a ~1" display means you're fucking up the display quality anyway, glare and distortion. High FOV >120° forget it. Also price are so high that you cannot reasonably have 4K x 4K.
They're also slower, in the 75~90Hz range. And again, since microOLED panels have exceptionally fast pixel response times, it creates another problem, motion persistence. To counter this problem they reduced greatly the brightness of the panels anyway which combined with pancake lenses (13% of light makes it through) it becomes too dim of an image. Or use black frame insertion to compensate for low brightness but leads to motion smearing. If you want HDR they are troublesome to cool down and you have have longevity issues.
So while the technology is inevitable microOLED in the future, right now its full of compromises.
Now deckard prototypes have used JDI panels, likely not this model, but look what they have now
You remove all cons from microOLED, much better optic quality because the panel is large, easily can achieve double the panel size of a microOLED, 4K x 4K, high refresh rate >120Hz, high brightness for compensating the dimming effect of pancake lenses, wide FOV at 130°, good PPD.
More importantly, local dimming like the Sony TVs now do. You'll get ~98% of the OLED blacks but without all the cons.
Rumour is dongle included or at the least existing and maybe sold separately depending on your network at home situation.
But even some peoples have tried the beta of Steam Link 2.0 because some chinese headset had the software included and peoples made it work on wifi 6 networks and the quality still beats displayport. Valve did witchcraft with the algorithm, but it requires eye tracking.
So deckard 100% certain has eye tracking.
Yeah I haven't, if they are really almost pixel perfect cool, but that's hard to do, and blooming on the quest pro can be extremely ugly. It would have to be beyond MacBook Pro levels of zone density at that 2 inch panel, otherwise dark environments look pretty bad.You haven't tried the new LCDs with almost pixel perfect backlight
I listed all the cons, widely accepted throughout the VR community, if you want to put your head in the sand, ok, but Valve is smart, I'm sorry to announce you that 95% chances its LCD.
Good point about racing and flight sims. For people into those, VR is definitely worth it.
