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Nice, I just completed the order for mine this morning! How long did yours take to ship? The page says 6-10 days, is that accurate?

Oh, and how well does the tracking work in the dark? As in, is there any noticeable difference between playing in a bright vs a dark room or are the IR cameras so good that you don’t even notice? :o

I also read a random youtube comment that claimed that you can do a mix of streaming and standalone on the frame - as in, you can stream a 2D game while also having a native browser window open at the same time. Is that true? Not that it’s some super big use case, but it’s neat that Valve would think to allow it haha

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I ordered last Sunday and on Thursday or Friday I got the mail that it would arrive next Monday.

I saw a Youtuber use it in complete darkness. It has an infrared light so the passthrough camera actually worked like nightvision goggles.

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Krafting@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For shipping, I bought on the 18 and fot the headset on the 23, a bit longer, also I got the notification that the package was sent for delivery on the day of the delivery, was a bit weird but okay!

I didn’t notice any difference between dark and bright room tracking, which is impressive.However, I did not try in a total dark environnement, qs there are always some LED, outside lamp ppst that makes a bit a light

And yes you can launch a game on the frame, use desktop mode to launch apps, then you can pin said apps in your currently running game. I did not test streaming while playing but I saw a lot of people trying it and it worked! The only issue with all that would be battery life, if you want to do that make sure you’re plugged in or else you won’t be playing long…

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cynar@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I got the shipping notification (tracking code generated). 2nd day afterwards, I got an update, out for delivery. The 6-10 days seems to be a pessimistic estimate.

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- Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  i ordered it on the 18 and probably get it on the 28, hopefully. The two packages somehow took different routes, even through different countries, and they want to have both before putting it to the pickup shop.
  I guess some locations are just far from the distribution centers.
  Like mine... but thats a me problem :3
  
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  - cynar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Unfortunately pessimistic can still be right. At least it’s on its way.
    
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