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vikingtons@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI’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
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Index might still have an edge in tracking and controllers, everything else should be improved.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Nah, while the Index controllers were awesome, the potentiometer used for the thumbsticks were total garbage and break super easy. I’m so ready for a tmr (magnetic thumbsticks) fix.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Apparently the thumbsticks were actually shite? Mine never went out, but I’ve heard from other people.
I think what they meant was the actual tracking of the headset and controllers, since the index used base stations PLUS accelerometers, giving them VERY precise location and movement. Whereas the frame controllers seem to be only inside-out optical, maybe with accelerometers?
We will have to wait and see. With them being better or worse than the index, we’ll have to wait and see. I’m still excited.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Yup i have 3 base stations, but i also found even with covering all reflective sources, you can suddenly lose tracking for no apparent reason and often made some games annoying to play. I hope the inside out tracking isn’t worse, too bad they didn’t add some backward compatibility for those who still have base stations.
artyom@piefed.social 9 hours ago
You can still buy and use the original base stations and they should work with the new headset.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I don’t think this is true, they use different tracking technology.