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Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

I hope the Frame is as cheap or cheaper than a Meta Quest 3. It's almost identical in the specs, but goes back to monochrome external cameras instead of full color. But also has eye tracking which the Q3 does not. I want eye tracking so fucking bad... I set up cameras for it before I was like "Hold up... They can't see my eyes with the headset on ๐Ÿ˜ฌ" lol

[โ€“] unit327@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago

No way it is as cheap as a q3. All valve have said is that they are aiming for < the price of a valve index full kit. https://www.uploadvr.com/valve-steam-frame-hands-on-impressions/

[โ€“] vetehinen@lethallava.land 4 points 2 hours ago

@Kolanaki@pawb.social @ampersandrew@lemmy.world @games@lemmy.world

Some important differences in the specs. It's not the same SoC, should have like 20-30% more GPU power, then there's their whole wireless streaming system (comes with the dongle). Could potentially do something better for audio but it certainly cannot be Index quality in that regard.

At the end of the day Meta does still do the console thing of subsidizing the headset with the software and Valve doesn't always do that so how close or far it lands in price is going to depend on that too.

[โ€“] ptolemai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The cameras can't track eyes with the headset on ...Unless they make it like the vision pro, where your eyes show up on the headset's outer screen. เฒ แด—เฒ 

[โ€“] magic_internet_wizard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

steam deck is still incredibly good for what you get. i have on of the original ones with a 64 gb ssd and although i have some hangups with that i just put in a 1.5 terabyte sd card and it runs almost everything i throw at it. just discovered the other night it can do vr very poorly with a beta steam client and beta steam vr while streaming to my quest 3s with steam link. we really live in a new era.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I could have had one and didn't get it because I never really go anywhere other than work. But boy did I regret it when I was at BLFC recently. My hotel roommates all had one and were playing Helldivers and Rocket League every night ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

I could have brought my Quest.... But I don't have anything for the stand alone system; all my VR games are on Steam.