u/poVoq — poVoq

Gunman Contracts

Oh, that looks promising, thanks for pointing that out.

I am pretty sure you can license it if you ask Valve.

I will never get why there are no VR studios just taking the HL:Alyx engine and make games with that. I *think* maybe Bonelabs is?

It is by far the best VR FPS game engine available, yet studios reinvent the wheel or use Unity3D 😒

Doesn't the SteamDeck already have a SD card slot? Getting a bigger SD card will be for sure the better option.

I was told the Apple headset's resolution is like the lower limit in resolution for that to work ok, so I guess those type of screens will come to more affordable HMDs some time in the future.

There are multiple such projects, for example: https://wiki.vronlinux.org/docs/fossvr/stardust/

But the same wiki mentions a few more.

The problem is that the hmd resolution isn't really good enough for reading small text.

According to the article linked, she left Meta already in 2022 (anticipating the layoffs that followed soon after). Still a good talent for Valve to pick up now that they got into wireless VR with the Frame.

Certainly not 3 🤷

I am aware, but the current restrictions make it not really feasible to use for most PS5 owners.

I really hope there will be an easy way to do the same with real PS5 in the future.

All that being said, I don’t think SteamOS on PS5 would work for multiple reasons. It’s extremely difficult to get the process simple enough for the average consumer, especially with Sony quickly patching any exploits required to boot it. It’s also not in Valve’s business interest to make it easier and explicitly supported to buy a cheaper and more powerful standardized machine. As they would just be creating a direct competitor to the Steam Machine.

There have been some recent discoveries that potentially make jailbraking a PS5 permanently easily possible, but yes right now it is too complicated and requires old firmware versions.

As for it being a competitor to the Steam machines... doubtful at the price they now announced. It is rather more likely that if they can get people with second hand jailbroken PS5 hooked to the Steam ecosystem that they are likely to upgrade to a Steam Machine 2 in the future.

They should pay someone to finalize the jailbreak of the PS5, because SteamOS should run great on it if you have a hacked console.

Yeah, that's nice. Effectively this means it is the cheapest in the EU or maybe the UK.

Still needs shipping and the US prices given are usually without VAT, which means another ~20% on top.

Probably 120€ if you add shipping from the US and VAT to it. The weak US$ helps a bit so maybe 110€.

Given the memory optimization mentioned in the text, it looks a bit like there will be a 8GB ram version of the Steam Frame. Makes sense really, as it will make it significantly cheaper and for people mostly using it to stream from their main PC it shouldn't matter much.

No, but I am looking forward to try Lepton on my Linux phone.

Well, Im a sorry if I offended you, but some of the ways the article is formulated sound a lot like someone working of an AI generated transcript of an interview.

Is that "article" an AI written "summary" of a chat log? Would be quicker to just read the chat...

Yeah, but it doesn't answer my specific questions regarding OpenGL games on OpenGL ES only hardware, which is a common issue on ARM boards.