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Steam Hardware Announcement (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'm afraid of the price.. this looks much more capable and powerful than the Index, which was quite expensive, I suspect it might end up in a similar price range, if not higher. But let's hope.

Interestingly, it seems to be using a snapdragon ARM-based unit. Which means it requires another layer of emulation/translation for running Steam games standalone. It's said it uses FEX (https://fex-emu.com/), probably combined/integrated with Proton.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Steve went to their HQ and had talks with their engineers.

https://youtu.be/bWUxObt1efQ

They're using snapdragon 8 gen 3 and emulation

[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I'm extremely curious about the price.

For a long time, there were $1200 rumors.
Now we have the "less than index", which I believe spawned the "under $1000" rumors.
but since index has a huge range, depending on the accessories you buy with it "less than index", can mean anything from <$600 to <$1100.

But in reality this has to compete with Quest 3, and preferably also with Quest 4 when that releases.
So I think it really should be on the lower side. <$600 would be good, <$500 would be great, <$700 would be okay

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago

I am suspecting the price to knock me back a little and I also suspect I will still consider it far longer than my wallet will be happy about