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[–] LandBasedDaveyJones@lemmy.today -5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Well... Yeah. It's a headset that you wear on your head. They're really uncomfortable. How do you not get a headache from them? How are you supposed to play a game for any meaningful amount of time? I seriously have never see a headset that wasn't a flop or a regretted purchase for it's audience. The "metaverse" crashed and burned, if VR was such a promising innovation, wouldn't it have done well?

VR is just the new version of the same thing that was happening with every iteration of "3D" whatever over the past 80 years or so. It's always the next best thing and right around the corner, but in this instance the premise is just flawed. A lot of people are still "social" when they game, talking to family, texting people, pausing to watch a video or go get something to eat.

Edit: And just looking up the ram: 16 gigs?? Aside from that, it's intended for streaming games from a main pc, do most people even have internet that's fast enough to handle that? Iirc in the US at least the government and companies have been dodging defining what "high speed" is because most of the country doesn't have access to it. And the resolution specs seem great, but what FPS would it be at? I gotta hazard a guess that it'd be at 30 or so for most modern games.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I believe it has a USB dongle that creates a custom network between the headset and your computer and nothing else, so it isn't dependant on your other networking hardware or speeds.

[–] Jaycifer@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Most of my friends who have VR headsets have gotten enough satisfaction from it. The Steam Frame fixes the things about those older headsets such I will be getting one eventually.

Frankly, to be asking your question about internet speeds makes it obvious that you’ve done barely a cursory reading on what the Steam Frame is. Until you’ve fixed that I cannot take what you say seriously.