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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I saw in the latest Cas and Chary video on the Steam stuff that the Frame's controllers have TMR thumbsticks.
I knew the new Steam Controller has them, I didn't think about the VR controllers.
TMR (Tunneling MagnetoResistance) is a magnetic sensing system based on hard drive head technology. It's a bit like hall effect, but lower power. Thumbsticks that use hall effect or TMR should never get stick drift, since there's no physical conductive contact to wear out or get obstructed. They are also more precise than regular thumbsticks.
The Quest and Rift Touch controllers use hall effect for the triggers, but old unreliable potentiometer thumbsticks (same as Xbox, Sony and Nintendo gamepads).
I already have a game pad with TMR sticks (Gamesir Cyclone 2).