Valve Announces the Steam Frame VR Headset
Competition is good, we've been a bit lacking in VR options lately. Valve have announced the Steam Frame.
It's a mobile headset running on a Snapdragon SOC (similar to Quests). It's also got wirel...
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One of my concerns will be how well Valve handles tracking. Until now they've been lighthouse only. This is their first time doing camera based tracking for both headset and controllers.
Meta's Oculus Constellation tracking system has been refined for 11 years.
For cable PCVR it's not really an improvement (since it can't do cable PCVR, just wifi). For wireless PCVR it has a lot of potential with the foveated streaming and dual wifi.
For mobile VR... that's a bit more up in the air. How many native Linux ARM VR games exist? It's running an emulator to play x64 PC games on a mobile CPU. Once developers start targeting it, it should be pretty good.
Then again the only stand alone game I play these days is Pistol Whip, so as long as that gets ported I'm fine. :)
I'm mainly interested in how SteamOS works on it. I'd prefer that to the mess of Android development, especially with how Google is behavior these days.