• stardust@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I decided to wait for Valve standalone. Even if it never comes out I’d rather keep waiting than get a meta headset.

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      7 months ago

      The Valve Index is here already and great. No bullshit like the Quest, just VR that works well. If you have a gaming PC with at least a quad-core and RTX 3060 then you should be good to get started with one. Mine works fine on a 9-year old gaming PC with 6 cores, 16GB RAM, and an RTX 3060TI. The motherboard is that old, the rest of the parts are newer (mostly GPU)

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        7 months ago

        They’re thinking of something that can work unteathered to a PC, like the rumoured valve deckard system

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          7 months ago

          Right but you can’t buy one of those, they aren’t on the market. What Valve has currently is excellent already but you can’t walk around town wearing it (as if anyone would need to)

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            7 months ago

            I get you but that’s not what the commenter above is looking for.

            I know the Index is fantastic and I’m truly happy for you, but I can appreciate other people being in the market for high fidelity VR with a substantially lower asking price (along with a lower total cost of ownership as a standalone system).

            We can’t let meta pull ahead in this industry unchecked, and I really hope Valve (or literally anybody else) can step up to this segment in the near future.

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        7 months ago

        I think by standalone they mean ‘no PC’. Like the Quest ones that run the games on themselves.