As we reach the second half of 2023, what are some of the supposed releases, or news you’re looking forward to?
- poVoq ( @poVoq@slrpnk.net ) English20•1 year ago
The rumored Deckard standalone VR headset from Valve sounds exciting.
- nodiet ( @nodiet@feddit.de ) English4•1 year ago
I really don’t think it will come out in 2023 though. Overall the PCVR tech seems to be stagnating at the moment. Which is a real shame because I am on the lookout for a headset but all the available ones don’t work for me. Basically I just want the equivalent of the PSVR2 (OLED screen, decent resolution, eye tracking) as a PC headset
- poVoq ( @poVoq@slrpnk.net ) English3•1 year ago
The HTC Vive Pro can be retrofitted with eye-tracking and has decent OLED screens. But the real problem is that there is very limited software support for eye-tracking on the SteamVR side and that will probably only change once Valve releases something new with eye-tracking support.
- nodiet ( @nodiet@feddit.de ) English3•11 months ago
I wasn’t aware that the vive pro has OLED displays. Really sucks that the pro 2 doesn’t, I would want a higher resolution than the vive pro
- teruma ( @teruma@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
In the same vein, Bigscreen Beyond. I can’t believe how small it is.
- bigbox ( @bigbox@lemmy.ml ) English16•11 months ago
Technically 2024 but the Apple Vision Pro headset is blowing my mind
- Dalinar ( @Dalinar@lemmy.nz ) English2•11 months ago
Even with that price tag?
- Hexorg ( @Hexorg@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
For new tech like that price point is expected to be high. The key point that I’m excited about their headset is that they ironed out a bunch of problems so now other companies can mirror the solution and lower the cost eventually.
- wagesof ( @wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com ) English2•11 months ago
A good blow jobs sometimes costs good money.
- bigbox ( @bigbox@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
I paid $3000 to build my pc, to be an early adopter of what seems to be groundbreaking tech, sure. Gotta start saving now though lol.
Also, the first iPhone is $40k today unopened. Maybe if you buy Apple’s first VR headset and never open it, 10 years later it’ll be worth a ton?
- Narte ( @Narte@lemmy.ml ) English11•1 year ago
The expansion of the more robust mobile gaming handheld sector. Systems like the ROG Ally and Steam Deck are an awesome new direction for gaming and I’m pumped to see that sector expand and mature.
Just a crazy thought. Have you watched WWDC? The new development tools for conversion to native metal is so exciting. I was just thinking that I would totally buy a hypothetical M1 steam deck passively cooled huge battery. That’s s just a dream though haha.
- Narte ( @Narte@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
I haven’t seen it but the shift to ARM for heavy computing really excites me from a mobile gaming standpoint. Do somewhat worry about how emulating all our existing game libraries on a new architecture is going to work though.
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
box64 and FEX Emulator are making big strides on the emulation front.
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
Anything about porting games to Apple APIs is completely disinteresting to me. M1 is a great chip, but MacOS is a terrible OS (and I say that as I type on an M1 Mac Mini I use as a TV PC) especially where gaming is concerned.
Much more exciting IMO is the work being done for Asahi Linux. Getting the M1 to run proper OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan along with the work being done on Linux X86-on-ARM emulation (box64 and FEX) is a much more promising direction for gaming on M1. I hope we also see other ARM chips from other vendors with the same amount of computing and graphics performance that could actually find their way into gaming handhelds not owned by the worst company for consumer freedom in tech.
- Yoreo ( @Yoreo@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
I was considering pre-ordering an Ally, but the battery life on it is a little underwhelming. I know it’s a similar capacity to that of the Steam Deck, but it packs way more computing power than what the Deck offers.
I wonder if they put such a small capacity battery in it so it’d weigh less than the Steam Deck. I know ASUS was citing it’s weight as a selling point.
- erpicht ( @erpicht@lemmy.ml ) English9•11 months ago
- Emacs 29 (featuring improvements to the built-in help system)
- NetBSD 10.0 (which has been in development nearly 3 years!)
- The FreeDOS 28th Anniversary Ebook (the working title is Why We Love FreeDOS)
- Long shot: better support for GNU Guix to run on GNU Hurd
- CrownCrafter ( @CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months ago
Found the foss enthusiast, can’t wait for emacs
- aksdb ( @aksdb@feddit.de ) English9•11 months ago
ThirdParty support for managing PassKeys. Especially the password managers BitWarden and Enpass. Having a main stream pubkey based authentication mechanism will hopefully vastly improve security and reduce ugly attack vectors.
- WhoRoger ( @WhoRoger@lemmy.world ) English7•11 months ago
I’m curious how the foldable Pixel will turn out. Especially if it’ll still be so moddable and have a relockable bootloader… Kinda doubt it
- asexualchangeling ( @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
If I’m ever to get a folding phone, it would have to be. After my current phone I swore I will never get a phone I can’t change the OS on again
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
A foldable for mobile Linux would be amazing, I love my PinePhone Pro with keyboard case, but you could use a foldable as a mini laptop with a touch keyboard on the bottom half (maybe not the best experience though). Having a bigger screen for doing productivity stuff especially with an external keyboard would be amazing, but I don’t want Android anymore.
- WhoRoger ( @WhoRoger@lemmy.world ) English1•11 months ago
Regarding the keyboard on the bottom, I can imagine some physical keypad accessory for the bottom half, like what Lenovo is doing with their foldable tablet/laptop thingy, just on a smaller scale.
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
That’s basically what the PinePhone keyboard accessory is. The phone clips into the top half and the bottom half is a physical keyboard. It is essentially a pocket sized laptop. I’m typing on it now and I can actually type much faster on this than any normal touch phone keyboard since you can properly touch type on it.
- WhoRoger ( @WhoRoger@lemmy.world ) English1•11 months ago
That looks sweet. Like a Psion 5.
Not what I’d personally have much use for (kinda like using phone in vertical an in-hand), but yea, leave it to small indie companies to come up with important things.
Ed: but I was referring to this where the keyboard can be attached right to the bottom screen.
- Shrek ( @psysok@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
I was hoping for a switch 2 this year, but that is seeming less likely now.
- mr_washee_washee2 ( @mr_washee_washee2@lemmy.ml ) English7•1 year ago
bro yuzu on steam deck and u’r set for life xd
- Dalinar ( @Dalinar@lemmy.nz ) English2•11 months ago
I haven’t found the firmware on the high seas and I’m not keen at the idea of dumping it myself
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
Just search for “switch keys” or something and you’ll find it. I dumped my actual games on my Switch but I found the keys online somewhere.
- pushka ( @pushka@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
There are rumours of early to mid 2024 with the second Pokemon dlc
- RadDevon ( @RadDevon@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
I guess it’s good, affordable presence detection which could enable some really cool home automation use cases.
- alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) English4•11 months ago
ROG Ally. Finally a good device which lets me play any of my indie games on my commute. This is important to me as I’m the dad of a 7 week old girl, and my commute is the only time I have for gaming now.
- nigelinux ( @nigelinux@lemmy.ml ) English8•11 months ago
Genuine question, why not Steam Deck? I enjoy playing indie games (Into the Breach, One Step from Eden, Into the Void, etc) on my Steam Deck on bus.
- alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) English4•11 months ago
It’s not available in Norway, and probably won’t be any time soon. I could have it sent to a collection point in Sweden and pick it up there, but then I’d have a lot of trouble dealing with a warrenty claim if something doesn’t work.
- Dasnap ( @Dasnap@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
Norway is an odd country to miss out. I kinda just assumed they’d released it in every stable European country.
- alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
We’re a really small non-eu market. I completely understand why they haven’t bothered launching it here.
- Dasnap ( @Dasnap@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
:(
- nigelinux ( @nigelinux@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
Sorry to hear that. It makes me thankful that even in a small Asian market like Hong Kong I can get a steam deck through official channel.
- alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
I’d definitely have gone with the SteamDeck had it been officially sold here. A more console like experience and the trackpads would have been great for RTS games. Bought a steam controller from a colleague, so at least I can use that for RTS when connecting the ally to a TV.
- asexualchangeling ( @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
I cannot overstate how much I love the trackpads on the steam deck, I never had a steam controller (I didn’t like the idea of trading other inputs for touchpads) but I’m really happy with them on the Deck
It sucks that they still have so many places they don’t ship yet though
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
I preordered one. I love my Steam Deck and am interested to see how much better it performs, but I plan on installing Linux (some form of SteamOS) because I really hate Windows. SteamOS is an amazing interface for a handheld and with the Ally running AMD, it should run Linux very well. ETA PRIME did a video on Linux on the Ally and it looks very promising.
- EDRBd97kWbT2KzK ( @EDRBd97kWbT2KzK@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months ago
MNT Pocket Reform will ship end of year
- milltertime_3227790 ( @milltertime_3227790@midwest.social ) English3•1 year ago
Second gen. Pixel Watch. Not expecting anything groundbreaking tbh, but skipped the first one and have $$$ burning a hole in my pocket.
- limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
I want to love a smart watch but i just don’t feel like they’re worth it tbh
I have the Samsung Watch4 and it’s cool and all but the battery life sucks (lasts like a day max) and i don’t get any really useful information from it that is accurate enough for me to use
I just ended up using it to see notifications and changing the music but i feel like i could have done that for a lot less than $250.
Is there a use case that i might be missing out on? What do you use them for?
- ConstableJelly ( @ConstableJelly@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
I have a Fitbit versa 3 that I also use for a very limited number of things, but those things are critical for my day to day:
- notifications: my phone is always on vibrate, id never know when I was getting messaged or called without it.
- alarm: I wake up before my partner, who has sleep issues, so it’s perfect for that, reliable and unintrusive.
- sleep tracking: I’m not sure I trust the specific numbers (although generally I do think it’s pretty accurate), but it is helpful for establishing a baseline and informing me if the reason I feel like garbage is because I didn’t get enough sleep or not.
And actually I think that’s it. I thought there was more, but that pretty much covers it. Oh also, sometimes helping with calories tracking.
- FirstWizardZorander ( @FirstWizardZorander@lemmy.one ) English2•11 months ago
Pebble was one of the good ones. I’ve gotten an inexpensive one running Android Wear, but I find myself seldom wearing it compared to my dumb watch. I wore my Pebble every day since it could last a damn week or more without charging, and the screen was very pleasant to the eyes.
- limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
Haha I feel that. My Casio digital watch is all i use nowadays
Charging is too much of a hassle for me for what i get in return
- SakamotoSan ( @SakamotoSan@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
Cheaper LTO-7