u/paraphrand — paraphrand

Well, the sport you are talking about is seeing how much you can steal and get away with. So…

Is there another option that’s cheaper for someone who wants this form factor and to not fuck around building a PC and wants to move away from consoles?

It’s not like it’s expensive in a vacuum. Gaming is just expensive these days.

I think you are forgetting what the goal is here.

Yup, the times are a changing.

Eh, rumors are the battery life will be low for the Frame. So, this addresses that.

Yeah, I need to use similar for those.

A short, like 2 or three foot, USB extension cable might help you out if you do run into USB 3 interference issues.

It’s a shame it’s only 8GB of vram. But that was already constrained before the memory apocalypse.

That doesn’t sound too fun, other people were the point for me.

They are addressing a diverse audience with their messaging. Not just you.

It’s 2026 and we still don’t have the technology to support server demand surges like this in a way that is appealing to implement.

When I first saw such things happen over 20 years ago, I figured it was always incompetence. Now I know it’s just reality.

I find that trackpad icky. I hate how PlayStation users have been forced to mash the mushy button that it is for the past 10 years.

It’s never lived up to the potential.

I have a bunch of nice controllers that all work on my gaming PC and Macs, etc.

But I’ll probally buy one of these too. I feel like it’s compulsory in a weird nagging way.

I suspect that will shake out with enough data. And I bet they can cross-estimate based on performance of various hardware configs across games too.

If they end up having a message on some games that says “not enough data yet.” Or similar, you’ll know they need a good sized volume to extrapolate average performance.

I’m sure they have considered all of this and the estimates will be conservative and rages/performance windows, not “we estimate this title will run at 47.5 fps on your rig.”

Frame generation is surely on their mind too.

That one is a bit different because it’s intended to fill in hitches and small dips. It’s not magic. It won’t take you from 60 to 90 fps the whole time. That won’t be a nice experience.

In fact, people usually turn off the version valve made for SteamVR when using VRChat because VRChat almost never meets frame rate in most busy worlds. And it’s better to just have a lower frame rate instead of warped and interpolated frames. It’s counter intuitive but true.

While frame gen is always inserting X frames between frames with the goal of consistent multiplication of your base frame rate.

Strange. That seems like it would be a good combination. I have friends who use Linux for VR regularly, and usually the issues described are around software compatibility. Not overall basic functionality.

Exactly. Frame gen is trash if you can only hit like 28 FPS before turning it on. But if you are already over 60, it can be fine.

But there is always a latency penalty, and that’s why if you can’t make frame rate without it, you are just digging a deeper hole latency wise.

Is this before you enter a game? Or only in the game you tested?

If it’s like that in the dashboard, then it might be a distro thing.

No Mans Sky will not run well on the HMD you’ll want to stream that one from your PC.