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It’s about 30% faster than the quest GPU wise or similar to a 1050 in shader performance, a bit behind a 1050 on some other things.

It will probably be playing PC games at 720 to 1080p, upscaled and framengend to 4k at 90hz. That’s not terrible considering the power usage of the device. It has to run off of batteries. If it’s much over $500 it won’t be a huge hit, if it’s 650 or less, then it will likely become the best choice for VR but not break into the mainstream. The steam machine, if it can hit $500 would be very popular, although $500 is not really a lot of money these days with all the inflation.

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fonix232@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A 1050 can barely play modern games at 720p 30fps.

Add on top of that the fact that the headset needs to:

drive 2x 2K displays

provide a 2K virtual interface rendered 2x, one for each eye

do this at 90-120hz

and still have left over capacity for running the games

add the overhead of the various Proton translation layers and such, and that 30% extra GPU capacity is gone.
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- DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think you would only be using this for either games designed for VR or older games, and also be using FSR and frame gen. This is actually a perfect use case for those.
  
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