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Steam Hardware Announcement (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm looking forward to the Frame. I have no interest in giving any money to Meta and Valve has been great with Linux support. I've seen people complain about the specs, but if it's a reasonable price it looks pretty good to me!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I'm afraid of the price.. this looks much more capable and powerful than the Index, which was quite expensive, I suspect it might end up in a similar price range, if not higher. But let's hope.

    Interestingly, it seems to be using a snapdragon ARM-based unit. Which means it requires another layer of emulation/translation for running Steam games standalone. It's said it uses FEX (https://fex-emu.com/), probably combined/integrated with Proton.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm extremely curious about the price.

    For a long time, there were $1200 rumors.
    Now we have the "less than index", which I believe spawned the "under $1000" rumors.
    but since index has a huge range, depending on the accessories you buy with it "less than index", can mean anything from <$600 to <$1100.

    But in reality this has to compete with Quest 3, and preferably also with Quest 4 when that releases.
    So I think it really should be on the lower side. <$600 would be good, <$500 would be great, <$700 would be okay

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Also curious about the Frame. I've been thoroughly enjoying my HTC Vive Pro 2 but it was $$$$$. The inside out camera based tracking is the way to go as long as they did it well. Also hoping they have some upper-tier audio hardware so you can use your own wired headphones.

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