Interesting they switched the steam controller to built in battery, but made this one replaceable AA.
So, if I understood this correctly, it’s a stand alone product, it doesn’t need a PC or anything to work. Right?
Both works. It has a builtin ARM based PC running SteamOS but it also comes with a 6GHz dongle allowing you to stream from your PC wirelessly.
I don’t have or want a PC, but I’m willing to buy a Steam Deck if necessary. That’s why this is very interesting.
Steam deck is not powerful enough to run vr games at playable fps, I got like 20 fps in vrchat on steam deck in vr
Thanks for this info. GabeCube it is.
May be better off with a prebuilt pc on sale, most games will prob be fine, maybe not blades and sorcery with hella mods (still not that heavy), or msfs/dcs/etc. but thats more niche I guess.
VRChat is the worst example you could possibly provide for performance metrics in VR. Even people with PCs that cost $10,000 don’t get 90fps in a busy room. The entire game is unoptimized user generated content…
What other people haven’t quite touched on is that the in-built system certainly won’t be powerful enough to run demanding VR games with good frame rates and resolution.
I also have my doubts about the 6GHz WiFi connection being enough for it, I hope there is also a wired option.
But it will be awesome to be able to do normal tasks like coding, writing, etc… outside in the garden, as an example. I think for people that don’t have a dedicated VR space, this could be awesome with 6GHz WiFi outside without needing base stations.
That was my read on it, not sure how I feel about it, I’d be happy enough with vr/ar/display glasses just hooked into the new gabe-box
Gabecube?
Fuck, Nintendo lawsuits be damned, they missed a trick not calling it that
does this mean my index will work better on linux too?
i couldnt even get sound to work and gave up lol
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what distro? does the index not show up among the output devices? is everything properly connected?nobara -
indeed, it doesn’t show up. I’ve read somewhere it should show up after starting steamvr and the headset but it didn’t. steamvr is also freezing everything outsids of itself on startup 😎 so its not the only issue
it was properly connected, i even tried a few different usb ports
your reaction suggests it should work out of the box…
then i suspect i messed something up pretty early on when i got this pc and tried things i didn’t quite understand (or by now, remember). i still mostly fly blind, learning the basics of linux bit by bit with every failure
tried things i didn’t quite understand (or by now, remember)
lol same, i’m on pop os now because i broke mint in some way
but yeah i didn’t fiddle with the index, it worked straight away. have you tried it in windows? just to eliminate hardware issuesyeah it works fine on my weaker and older windows pc. if the desire to slice and dice flying cubes is overwhelming, i setup everything on there. disappointing but not the only use case for my windows pc.
hmm maybe a clean reinstall with another distro is justified after all (or the same again, but without messing up lol) the hassle of redownloading all the games again doesn’t bring joy tho
i was meaning on the same pc
i think just plugging in the same ssd should work (after installing the necessary drivers, it should happen automatically)
So… Does anyone know how likely this is too get/run beat saber? That’s most of what my VR having friends seem to really use VR for.
