Steam Frame

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855 points Philpax | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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Insanity ◴[12 Nov 25 19:11 UTC] No.45904681[source]▶

This is going to be an instant buy for me, and my first VR device ever. I've used the previous Steam VR headset over at a friends' place many times, but never bit the bullet to get one myself.

The fact that this can run standalone, doesn't have a bunch of wires dangling from it, and is pretty much a fully working Linux box makes this am almost on-brainer for me.

I do _hope_ the price is reasonable though, if it ends up being like Apple VR I might not buy into it immediately, but I'm hoping for a reasonable $1000 max price.

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vunderba ◴[12 Nov 25 19:20 UTC] No.45904853[source]▶

>>45904681 #

I can't imagine it exceeding ~1k USD - they've got to at least keep it reasonably competitive with the Meta Quest which is around half that.

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1. hadlock ◴[12 Nov 25 20:12 UTC] No.45905804{3}[source]▶

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I realize this might not be the case for everyone, but for me, $600 premium is easily worth it to "jailbreak" the meta game store. Steam was here for ~25 years and I expect it to be around in another 25 years. My Quest 1, an absolute Dinosaur of the VR world now, 2019, barely works at this point, is out of support and Meta still haven't open sourced the firmware for it.

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