Definitely looking forward to this. My Index has been great, but I really want wireless.
and here I passed on wireless for my vive cause it would have been another $400+ and installing a card on top of the $699 kit price. Index doesn’t have a wireless option?
There’s some third party options, but they’re not very reliable and usually come with sacrifices.
Damn, Vive and Valve worked together on this, surprised Valve didn’t include a paid wireless option like Vive did. I couldn’t justify that expense when I first purchased the Vive, and by the time I could I was used to dodging the wire without seeing it
Wireless streaming has always just seemed so obvious to me. I’ve been advocating for it for years. Of course Valve is the first one to make it.
Oculus definitely beat them to the punch, but I’d definitely say Valve will have the best implementation.
When did they do that?
I’ve been doing virtual desktop with my quest 1 for steamVR since the pandemic, so around or before 2020
I’m more excited about what the Frame means for Steam on ARM Linux. In a year or two, third-party ARM handhelds may be amazing — provided the DRAM cartel gets sorted out, one way or another.
(If you haven’t checked out Armada, it gives a glimpse of what the future might hold.)
vr seems to be doomed to forever be a niche, so this may very well be one of the final “mainstream” hardware releases.
It’ll come back. People have been enamored with this concept since at least the 1980s.
It’s a niche alright, but judging from VRchat and the modding communities around getting VR working in more and more games, it’s a niche people are willing to spend money on.
Some things are also best experienced in VR (such as Half Life Alyx)
If it’s less than the Machine, maybe there’s a chance I’ll get it but… I’m gonna bet on US$1,500.
The original planned price was below the valve index ($1000), so the real question is by what percentage markup is applied from the chips inside vs. the steam machine.
When they said cheaper than index, I assumed 750 or so. Now I’ve given up on getting one, as I guess It’ll be somewhere between index and 1 500.
I’ve already come to terms with a high price.
Since I am upgrading my OG Vive, I can live with it. I know I will use it plenty and for a long time.
With recent news that Qualcomm are raising their chip prices, I wonder if the Steam Frame prices are affected and by how much.
half-life 3 confirmed.
Well i wanted to buy it but its porbably gonna be insanely expensive and im saving up for a car so maybe next year…
Locking in when I get home. Assuming it costs less then a full G that is…
I signed up for a Steam Controller and then got mysteriously removed, despite having a confirmation email, from the wait list. Resigned up. Still no controller.
I look forward to using my Steam Frame in 2030 😅 maybe the bubble has popped by then.
Let’s see if it valve want my money this time around.
