u/AmbitiousProcess — AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

hmmmmmmm good point, I didn't consider that!

According to the Ars review, the 1.5 hour battery life is when running games on the Steam frame itself

I was going off the LTT number which put it at 1:36 when streaming Half Life Alyx from a desktop PC, running at 144Hz. Ars' number is when running on Performance mode with "most VR titles", so I don't know how comparable that is.

The Verge says they never got above 2 hours even when using battery-saving mode or streaming-only, and demanding games got under 1 hour.

As for charging time, LTT claims it's 3 hours to 100%, and 2.4 to 95%, and doesn't seem to state there's much of a speed increase below that point, and as far as I'm aware you usually only see a major difference in charging speed for the last ~10%, though previously The Verge did also state a power bank could keep them going up to 2.5 hours.

So with all that said, if it takes around 1-2 hours for it to die after starting from full, and it takes a minimum of 2.4 hours just to get it **almost** full... that means it'll still run out of battery eventually, even if plugged in.

I would get it if the battery life didn't suck.

~1.5 hours when streaming from PC at 144hz, and a full charge time of around 3 hours, meaning you probably can't even get unlimited playtime if it's plugged in the entire time and solely streaming from a PC instead of computing the game itself.

It seems like the point is that Microsoft would be developing some sort of alternative to the kernel with similar functionality for antivirus providers, that doesn't need to have kernel level access. Anticheat uses a lot of the same techniques as kernel level antivirus to detect malware, thus it would probably have to adapt to this new system.

I think the article is more commenting on how Microsoft is *directly partnering* with antivirus companies for this new system right now, while they're not directly partnering with anticheat companies, even though they'd probably have to migrate to this new system regardless.

To be fair, it certainly still makes cheating *harder.* If it didn't exist, you'd just see **even more** people cheating, but it's a pretty overkill way of system monitoring for such a relatively small benefit by comparison.

Massive privacy risk, only slightly better performance than other non-kernel monitoring.