VRChat is the worst example you could possibly provide for performance metrics in VR. Even people with PCs that cost $10,000 don’t get 90fps in a busy room. The entire game is unoptimized user generated content…
May be better off with a prebuilt pc on sale, most games will prob be fine, maybe not blades and sorcery with hella mods (still not that heavy), or msfs/dcs/etc. but thats more niche I guess.
Long story short. I’ve worked in IT since 1998, my first computer was a PC-XT, and before that I had a thing that only Brazil had (HotBit from Sharp).
I had to achieve an equilibrium between work and home.
So, now I work on a MacBook Pro and I ssh to the servers I need (I’m a - mostly - Oracle DBA). At home I have an XBox Series X to play games.
I don’t want a PC. I want things simple.
I’ll probably buy the SteamDeck (or the GabeCube) and this VR.
I see, by PC you mean you don’t want a traditional ‘tower’ PC, which is perfectly reasonable. I personally consider anything within the umbrella of “PC gaming” to be a PC, including laptops (even Macbooks).
What is a PC for you, though? Steam Frame is a full on computer running Linux, as well as Steam Deck. Nothing prevents you from running basically anything on them. But the same could be said about your MacBook that you already own.
The MacBook is not “mine”, exactly, it’s from my boss. What I’m saying is that I don’t want to go through the hassle of assembling and maintaining a PC. That’s why I bought the XBox (and because of Halo, that’s why I didn’t buy the PS).
So, you just want a prebuild? Just as with consoles, you still need to do maintenance. Yes, you can neglect it for a couple of years, but then you start noticing that your thermal interface is not as good anymore or that your heat exchangers are now more dust than metal. And I find full-sized computers easier to maintain, as they are so easy to disassemble, contrary to consoles.
Also, if you want VR and have the money for it, it’s probably a good idea to buy a beefier machine. VR is a bit hungry for system resources (depending on the title, of course), standalone headsets don’t provide nearly as good of an experiece as a proper PCVR.
Both works. It has a builtin ARM based PC running SteamOS but it also comes with a 6GHz dongle allowing you to stream from your PC wirelessly.
I don’t have or want a PC, but I’m willing to buy a Steam Deck if necessary. That’s why this is very interesting.
Steam deck is not powerful enough to run vr games at playable fps, I got like 20 fps in vrchat on steam deck in vr
VRChat is the worst example you could possibly provide for performance metrics in VR. Even people with PCs that cost $10,000 don’t get 90fps in a busy room. The entire game is unoptimized user generated content…
vrchat is the only game I tested other than beatsaber because my other vr games take too long to download
Thanks for this info. GabeCube it is.
May be better off with a prebuilt pc on sale, most games will prob be fine, maybe not blades and sorcery with hella mods (still not that heavy), or msfs/dcs/etc. but thats more niche I guess.
There’s no sign of will be able to stream from Deck
That’s a very strange opinion to read on programming.dev’s Linux Lemmy community
Long story short. I’ve worked in IT since 1998, my first computer was a PC-XT, and before that I had a thing that only Brazil had (HotBit from Sharp). I had to achieve an equilibrium between work and home. So, now I work on a MacBook Pro and I ssh to the servers I need (I’m a - mostly - Oracle DBA). At home I have an XBox Series X to play games.
I don’t want a PC. I want things simple. I’ll probably buy the SteamDeck (or the GabeCube) and this VR.
I see, by PC you mean you don’t want a traditional ‘tower’ PC, which is perfectly reasonable. I personally consider anything within the umbrella of “PC gaming” to be a PC, including laptops (even Macbooks).
What is a PC for you, though? Steam Frame is a full on computer running Linux, as well as Steam Deck. Nothing prevents you from running basically anything on them. But the same could be said about your MacBook that you already own.
The MacBook is not “mine”, exactly, it’s from my boss. What I’m saying is that I don’t want to go through the hassle of assembling and maintaining a PC. That’s why I bought the XBox (and because of Halo, that’s why I didn’t buy the PS).
So, you just want a prebuild? Just as with consoles, you still need to do maintenance. Yes, you can neglect it for a couple of years, but then you start noticing that your thermal interface is not as good anymore or that your heat exchangers are now more dust than metal. And I find full-sized computers easier to maintain, as they are so easy to disassemble, contrary to consoles.
Also, if you want VR and have the money for it, it’s probably a good idea to buy a beefier machine. VR is a bit hungry for system resources (depending on the title, of course), standalone headsets don’t provide nearly as good of an experiece as a proper PCVR.
If you do decide to get the Steam Machine, you can stream from there to get a lot more out of the Steam Frame than what it can do standalone.
Their newly announced Steam Machine also can do the same thing in your living room, but provide a console-like setup.