PC gamers and VR enthusiasts looking forward to Valve’s next major hardware launch may have to make some adjustments to their budgets. According to prominent Valve insider and content creato…
And it’s not owned by meta and many games that you already own will play on it without a PC, and it can be linked to your PC, unlike the $3500 Apple Vision Quest or whatever the hell it was called.
Comparable in a sense, each component that they actually share. But still all individually upgrades. But for all the components the Steam Frame has that a Quest 3 doesn’t even have… literally no comparison. Not to mention functional firmware/operating system. And the community features, and the cool stuff we’ll be able to get for the expansion port. And the controllers are much more useful. Not just for VR games, but as actual controllers too.
And they have actual spatial anchoring, you put something at a representative physical point in space, it’ll stay exactly there. So you hang a screen on a wall in your house, or in your bathroom, or above your stove… it’s there every time, doesn’t need to constantly be adjusted, or re-opened. That part of it was such an important feature of the headset that they literally named the headset after it, the Frame system. Quest 3 is so annoying trying to use it that way, not only does stuff subtly shift throughout the day, but you put the headset on tomorrow and it’s either in a new random place, or it’s gone and you have to put it up again…
It’s not really next gen tho. The hardware is comparable to Quest 3.
It’s using snapdragon 8 gen 3 which is more powerful than the xr gen 2 by 25%
And it’s not owned by meta and many games that you already own will play on it without a PC, and it can be linked to your PC, unlike the $3500 Apple Vision Quest or whatever the hell it was called.
What if I told you there’s more to a VR headset than the hardware?
Why would you tell me that when I was only objecting to the next gen label? That wouldn’t make much sense.
Comparable in a sense, each component that they actually share. But still all individually upgrades. But for all the components the Steam Frame has that a Quest 3 doesn’t even have… literally no comparison. Not to mention functional firmware/operating system. And the community features, and the cool stuff we’ll be able to get for the expansion port. And the controllers are much more useful. Not just for VR games, but as actual controllers too.
And they have actual spatial anchoring, you put something at a representative physical point in space, it’ll stay exactly there. So you hang a screen on a wall in your house, or in your bathroom, or above your stove… it’s there every time, doesn’t need to constantly be adjusted, or re-opened. That part of it was such an important feature of the headset that they literally named the headset after it, the Frame system. Quest 3 is so annoying trying to use it that way, not only does stuff subtly shift throughout the day, but you put the headset on tomorrow and it’s either in a new random place, or it’s gone and you have to put it up again…