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- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
Probably Pavlov it’s basically just CoD multiplayer, plus a less janky Gary’s Mod, in VR. I’ve just check my stats and I have months worth of play time. It’s also a hell of a workout.
The trailers on the steam page don’t really do it justice. It’s mostly about the community.
If you’re into racing there’s also Gran Turismo, I’m pretty sure Euro truck / American truck simulator also supports VR, as of course does Elite Dangerous and if you’re prepared to buy into it Star Citizen.
There’s also loads and loads of indie games but I don’t really know about those because my VR experience has been exclusively PlayStation limited, where those titles are not available. But I do know that ultra wings is extremely good because I’ve played it on a friend’s headset.
I normally wouldn’t say I was particularly interested in the VR chat style community playroom thing either but I had a lot of fun with Rec Room which is essentially the same thing but is available on PlayStation. The problem with those games is they tend to have a lot of kids in them who shouldn’t really be in there since most of those games are 18 plus. But I take the view that if they’re in there, then they’re fair play, and you can just shoot them if they’re being annoying.
Oh and there’s a dungeons and dragons simulator which is very good. If you’re into dungeons and dragons. Oh and loads of poker games.
Sorry this is a bit rambly, I just keep thinking of titles I’ve played over the years.
The thing about VR games is they don’t tend to get huge advertising budgets because it’s still quite a niche market so it looks like there isn’t really a lot of options. But if you actually have a look on the VR page there’s loads. There’s even quite a good VR MMO who’s name I can’t quite remember, but that’s quite good, if kind of dated looking.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
Really he’s been pretty critical of Microsoft lately. I don’t really have a problem with him personally, he definitely doesn’t live in the real world though.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
Well he would get a VR headset to play VR games. If you’re not going to play VR games on the VR headset then it really isn’t worth you getting one.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
Blame LTT for that. They’re the ones that put out the initial idea that corporations might buy them thus valve cannot sell them at a loss.
When I first heard them say that I initially thought “yeah that makes sense”. But after a while of thinking about it, no it doesn’t make any sense at all, I have no idea why he said that.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
Most corporations just buy laptops and then the world’s cheapest docking stations. So would have to be cheaper than a mid-tier laptop and I can’t see that being likely.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 1 week ago:
It’s hard to benchmark because it’s running on a weird system architecture that no one’s ever really seen before.
On paper it should be at least as good as the quest, possibly a little bit more powerful. But there’s an awful lot of optimisation opportunities possible on ARM, but we don’t know if they will be initially realised. Of course you can also run it in display mode in which case it’s as powerful as the PC it’s paired with. At which point only really care about is the screen, comparable to the quest, the lenses which aren’t good as the quests, and the tracking which is probably quite a lot better than the quest. Also when it is paired to a computer it’s done so via 6G wireless rather than a cable, so that’s quite a lot more convenient.
The steam frame also has an expansion port, which is a new concept for VR headsets so we’ll see what ends up happening with that.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 5 weeks ago:
They do. But a lot of displays don’t support DP so HDMI isn’t here for them. If you have a capable TV, then there is no issue.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Look at town to city, their characters are like four voxels wide and have plenty of character. You can go the AI route but I think the art would always end up just looking like it’s AI, always just a little bit off. It all depends on the style of your game.
If you’re going the photo realistic route you can still do it without AI, just use something like metahumans or one of the many equivalents.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
So you’re angry that it is theoretically possible that the client contains AI code and therefore in your mind it there definitely does.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Why would it? The client has been around for ages and hasn’t changed in all that time. So your getting mad about a hypothetical. Your weird.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Hence the need for the AI tag.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Because store bought assets are still quality assets not a human made. The only reason it sounds silly is because you went out of your way to make it silly.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 1 month ago:
I suspect that if anything is going to become big enough to warrant its own community it would probably be steamOS rather than any of the hardware, after all in a few months the hardware will be out and there won’t be as much to talk about.
But the OS is going to be getting updates I would assume, so there’s always going to be new topics
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s just a ubisoft problem. Maybe they should just try making it good game.
- Comment on With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame. 1 month ago:
I mean, I’ve been running Linux off it on a Pi for years without issue.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 5 months ago:
You could use isopropyl alcohol and a piezoelectric speaker.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 5 months ago:
Smoke? I want the entire thing to explore like a Star Trek console.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 5 months ago:
Lies
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Dev Apologizes for Mistakenly Banning Steam Deck/Mac players, will unban accounts 1 year ago:
Like Fusion the year of Linux is always next year. It will be next year forever.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 1 year ago:
It just looks like a DVD, with a slightly purple tint. All Blu-Rays are is DVDs with denser data encoding.
You probably have had one or two and not known about it, most games consoles use blu-rays now as well.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 1 year ago:
See I’m really split on Epic.
The corporate side is absolute trash, but UE5 is genuinely one of the most advanced game engines currently in existence and will massively push the industry forward in terms of standards as everyone rushes to compete (except for Unity who are sticking with their old strategy of doing nothing at all).
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 1 year ago:
It’s really low res as well. Weird.
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 1 year ago:
How on Earth were people editing your calendar without permission?
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
I have no idea if this works iPhones because Apple pretty restrictive (Do they allow anyone to use anything other than Safari or are they still on that anti-consumer kick), but on Android you can set the browser engine the in-app browsers use. So you can set it to Firefox and then have plugins.
I’m using that now.
Or you can just turn in-app browsers off.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
So a PC in a cool case?
The problem with going proprietary is that then, well, it’s proprietary. So either they use off the shelf components in which case it’s basically a PC, or they use custom stuff which might improve performance depending on what they do, but will make it difficult to repair and upgrade. Then you rely on Valve producing hardware components, and they’re not really a hardware company, although in fairness they’re also not doing badly at it.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Using an ad blocker is basically requirement of browsing the internet at the moment.
- Comment on Bureau Of Prisons Seeking To Criminalize Social Media Access By Inmates 1 year ago:
If you’re going to insult someone they actually have to understand the insult these internal references don’t make sense to anyone who isn’t in your little social circle of want to be fascists.
If you want to die death by cop be my guest, but don’t risk anyone else’s life in the process.
- Comment on Bureau Of Prisons Seeking To Criminalize Social Media Access By Inmates 1 year ago:
So you want to be a terrorist and / or serial killer?
Should we be reporting you to someone?
- Comment on The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 1 year ago:
I don’t know maybe they become self-aware and protest all of the drowning victims that have suffered as a result of the removal of the pool stairs.
- Comment on Trump Tells Hannity He'll Be a "Dictator" if He Wins, but Only on "Day One": A Closer Look with Seth Meyers [10:52] 2 years ago:
Possessed?