They might sell it near cost, since the only practical way to use it is through Steam. I understand why they didn’t do that with the Steam Machine, because that’s very easy to use without Steam.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 days ago
$60 for the ergonomic kit, which is a couple of pieces of fabric, is rough. Doesn’t bode well for the price of the HMD.
I suspect Linux/Machine streaming will be there at launch and might be a reason they’ve been so late with the launch. We’ve seen quite a few Linux fixes in recent SteamVR releases.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
iamthetot@piefed.ca 6 days ago
They might sell it near cost
Zero chance.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I mean, near cost still wouldn’t be a good price, but there’s not a lot of advantage to sell it at a high price for them. Much less reason for anyone to buy into their VR ecosystem rather than Meta’s.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 6 days ago
Your lips to Gabe’s billionaire ears.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 days ago
The only practical way right now is through steam. Open source community will change that in a hurry
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
They did with the Steam Deck too. I don’t think Valve is worried about super-technical people. It’s if it’s easy enough for the everyday user to use it without Steam. The Machine is super easy to use without Steam, and it’s useful as a computer. A cluster of Frames wouldn’t be very useful.
At least that’s my take on it.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Reasonable yea
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I’d hope so. Excluding Steam Machine from streaming would be a hilariously bad look.