| ▲ | nickandbro 7 hours ago |
| Waiting for Steam Frame. |
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| ▲ | simjnd 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sadly the passthrough is black and white only. That's the one thing I love about the Vision Pro is it never feels claustrophobic thanks to very good passthrough quality. |
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| ▲ | bananamogul 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wow, Steam Frame has only B&W passthrough...[1] The Quest 3S has color passthrough and it's hardly an Apple-level device, and it's $349 in comparison. I guess as a gamer, I don't care that much. I put on my headset to game, and if I need to step away for a moment, I'm more likely to take it off than to wander around my house with a headset on. Still, I thought color passthrough was now table stakes for a headset. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/the-steam-frame... | | |
| ▲ | 3092-8121-9924 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think it's not purely unmotivated cost-cutting. They went for IR sensors and have embedded IR LEDs for low-light tracking, and i figure colour passthrough would have required additional cameras. | |
| ▲ | hgoel 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | IIRC there were rumors that the headset would have an open PCIe slot for such things to be added. Presumably they were passed on as defaults for cost reasons. | |
| ▲ | simjnd 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, same. I'll still get one because I think it being a standalone Linux computer is huge, and I'm so interested in the Proton / Lepton stacks to run Windows and Android games but yeah this is a pretty big compromise. |
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| ▲ | daviding 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Will be interesting to see which side of $999 it drops. I'll buy it regardless but the optics (heh) on the high RAM cost issue and the unit price might temper demand a bit. |
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| ▲ | some_random 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Does the AVP actually compete with it? I thought it didn't do games? |
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| ▲ | NetOpWibby 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ooh share results here when you get it! |
