If the index cost $1000 without a battery, storage, memory and a SoC in 2019, I can’t imagine the frame is going to be anything below $1,500 with 2026 pricing.
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FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m dreading what the Steam Frames are going to cost.
Wahots@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Though the Index did use an intricate OLED screen and it had the lighthouses and finger tracking controllers (they have 87 different sensors per controller). Without the AIpocalypse, the Frame was originally supposed to be the cheaper of the two.
2026 prices though, who knows.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 weeks ago
The Index did not have OLED screens, they used regular LCDs.
warmaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It will be like running backwards through a cornfield.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I am deeply concerned
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
To be fair, the Frame was never going to be cheap.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like 1200-1300 was probably likely before the price bump. I’m not confident it will come out under 15 at this point
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They said it would be cheaper than Index at the time, so no.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that makes sense. If that’s the case, then a 1300 ish range seems pretty likely
SunshineJogger@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yea… That was then.
If they had planned to have the machine at 750, then we can extrapolate from that a frame cost. Up from around 900.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Relative to what? I don’t think it’s shooting for pimax dream or even valve index price points (well, outside of the component pricing crunch)
SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
The original announcement (or some interview or something around that embargo) mentioned that it was going to be cheaper than the Index. Granted that was before the current component crunch and they did not specify whether they meant the base model Index or the full kit with base stations, controllers, etc.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The entire index kit was 1000 before all the bullshit… iirc, you could buy just the headset for like 650, because the base stations were like 100 each and the controllers were separate too. My memory is a little fuzzy on that… But let’s say 1000 for all of it. Putting the frame, with all extras at like… 800 target price point before all the fascism scarcities, and considering the about price-doubling of ram, would put it at right about the same price as the steam machine? Maybe if they were targeting 600, it might be like 1000 now?
phx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which makes sense in some ways. The Frame should be more capable and powerful by itself, but the Index needed those damn base stations which cost a bit just by themselves
vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll be honest, I’ve been pretty out of the loop and totally spaced on that. I was basing it from the general product offering (omitting base stations, high bandwidth display cable throughput, overall display specs), and super old leaks from the time where we knew it only by its codename (deckard), suggesting a much lower cost, partially modular system.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Index remained the overall higher quality VR solution for now
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Tbf, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 with 256 GB shouldn’t be insane.