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Steam Hardware Announcement (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The battery is in the strap anyway and the additional weight for compute is likely very negligible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (16 children)

    The battery is on your head, with the rest of the headset. Weight is a concern of the power required, not the available compute. The bigger concern is cost.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (15 children)

    The battery is functioning as a counterweight and is optional.

    cost, absolutely valid though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (14 children)

    Oh, so you can hardwire it to the PC without a battery!?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (13 children)

    I don't see why not, but you probably wouldn't want to because the battery is a perfect counterweight, making it much more comfortable.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    Do you wear a counterweight with your sunglasses? No one complains about the lack of counterweight on a Bigscreen. In fact everyone seems to agree it's the most comfortable headset ever.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (11 children)

    It doesn't have inside-out tracking. You can't have both.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    And why not?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    Inside out tracking requires an array of cameras and a processor as well as a way to cool it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Inside out tracking requires an array of cameras

    The cameras are the size of a pea

    and a processor as well as a way to cool it.

    Where's the processor in the Bigscreen Beyond? 🤔

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Nonexistant because it doesn't have inside-out tracking...

    the cameras themselves are not the problem, it's all the processing and cooling required to make that work along with the processing for passthrough and many other things. I doubt this headset would be much lighter if it was not standalone and still had inside out tracking.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nonexistant because it doesn't have inside-out tracking...

    It is existent. It still has outside in tracking, which is processed...on the computer. There's no reason inside out can't be processed the same way.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    It would need a massive amount of throughput and latency, try a usb webcam and notice how shit it is, same problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    They're already streaming 2k/144HZ games. They have a massive amount of throughput. They'd have even more if it were wired

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's making use of a one way port, I can't plugin a displayport backwards.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    There is no port. It's wireless. And it's bidirectional. How do you think the positional data would make it back to the PC if it weren't?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wow it's actually a usb-a port, I don't know how they're sending that much data over it but it's certainly close to its limits, there's a reason most monitors aren't usb and all usb webcams suck

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    You're talking about the router? Yes. Not only that but it works on usb2.

    I don't know how they're sending that much data over it

    They're making use of new technology they call foveated streaming. It only streams the content you're looking directly at in full resolution.

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