It has cameras so you should still be able to see everything, just not in color because the cameras are monochrome.

Notably with the Steam Frame you're stuck with the high end snapdragon and 16GB of RAM even if you'll use it with a computer, but they didn't want to splurge five or ten dollars on color cameras. Weird priorities.

Is there really a killer app here though? I've tried it and I think the hardware is really cool, but it doesn't really strike me that any of the software justifies the purchase price.

Being the lesser of two evils doesn't make it right. It's also possible to not have loot boxes at all.

To clarify, the loot boxes in Roblox are game specific. The platform itself just has the catalog where you buy stuff directly

But still, Roblox should do a better job regulating the games on its platform

The problem with visual only loot boxes is that people will pay for rare skins and so everyone still gambles on that stuff. I don’t know if they solved that, used to be you’d buy the keys to unlock them and hope to profit from selling a skin. Adults should also be protected against dark patterns like this.

Usable sure, but then why did you get a Steam Controller if not to make use of the additional inputs?

Not really. Can't really map a touchpad as an analog stick. Can't map a gyro as a joystick. Can't take XBox rumble and map it to the Steam Controllers haptic feedback.

Can you hack it together in theory, get something working but making sacrifices left and right? Sure. But why would Valve want to do that? Use experience would be incredibly bad.

But give it time. There will be a standalone driver for Windows eventually, either from Valve or from the community.