It's close to an RX7500/7600 paired with a Ryzen 5 7500/7600. Depending on the price it can be fine for gaming. Nobody expects enthusiast performance. It has to be priced to be competitive against consoles and lower end DIY PCs.
Little disappointing its not got colour passthrough. I am not convinced this generation of headsets will really be the ones that AR breaks through but still its a bit disappointing and has been useful with the latest Quest headsets. Other than that it looks fairly solid.
2160x2160 in each eye for the headset
8GB vram in 2026?!
I think this is fine for a mass market device.
It might be easy to forget, but most gamers are not using the higher-end hardware that enthusiast discussions tend to focus on.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Perhaps an 8GB limit will encourage game studios to allow more time for optimization, which seems to have fallen out of fashion in recent years.
It's close to an RX7500/7600 paired with a Ryzen 5 7500/7600. Depending on the price it can be fine for gaming. Nobody expects enthusiast performance. It has to be priced to be competitive against consoles and lower end DIY PCs.
what game needs more?
Many do, especially at higher resolutions.
Especially if you do stuff like "AI" upscaling, frame generation, and raytracing.
It's a shame patent trolling killed the OG Steam Controller. But this one's got trackpads and seems like a decent substitute.
Looks like the og Nintendo Gamecube but modernized.
It looks pretty bad on the photos.
is that good bad or bad bad?
Irrelevant bad. It's a gaming product, you're not expected to wear it in public so the look doesn't matter.
RIP Steam Controller. This headless Steam Deck is no substitute. The only halfway decent FPS controller has no substitute.
You're in luck! New one coming out.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller
think that comment was saying that they don't like the new steam controller
Seems strictly better than the old one, what's not to like?
So no Half Life 3? (':
Source https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware
Looks exciting! It would be amazing if the headset turns out to be useful for coding without a monitor. Say, in the park.
It's doable. But you need 8k per eye to read text comfortable. But what would you use for input?
Little disappointing its not got colour passthrough. I am not convinced this generation of headsets will really be the ones that AR breaks through but still its a bit disappointing and has been useful with the latest Quest headsets. Other than that it looks fairly solid.
Meh, I'm hopeful, but I'll wait for specs.
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Steam Frame https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325
Steam Machine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404