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I got it, I unboxed it 👀
#SteamFrame #Steam

Battery life on the Steam Frame is really rather poor for sure.
Barely getting more than an hour from it.
Fast-chargers are going to be be an important thing, coz all the chargers I have lying around are taking 4 hours to charge it up for an hour of a game? Something like that.
Better chargers are on the way.
Also, a battery with fast-charge of many watts which is suitable for a pocket with a wire to the back of the head.
Back of the head there does feel quite well designed for having an external battery pack.
#vr #steamFrame

Been mostly playing Unloop, which you would think is a pretty simple game requiring not a lot of performance.
But the headset has not been performing well with it. It gets by. Slows down and drops frames as it gets latter in the loop with more actors acting.
So compared to the Quest, the Frame is more expensive, and it's worse performing, and it's battery life is worse, it's less comfortable and it needs more expensive and rare chargers.
So obviously I think the Frame is clearly better by some considerable margin, mostly because Steam is not a nightmare end-of-the-world surveillance capitalist and spook collaborator run by the word's biggest creep, whereas Facebook is that.
Instead Steam have built a device which is open for programming, and which I am interested in writing software for, and which doesn't feel pwned by the man before it even arrived.
#steamFrame

Looking more and more like discontinuing the Valve Index in favor of the #SteamFrame will prove to be a mistake https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-warn

If you turn on Developer Mode, and set a user password, then you can ssh into the linux machine strapped to your face.
Now that is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Oh yes.
#steamFrame #vr

Annnnnd it's here! #steam #steamframe

Well I do not recommend trying the beta channel.
After trying that it booted into a VR KDE desktop without Steam running, and without internet. And without SteamVR package installed.
Only rescue was holding the headset button during boot, using the volume keys to select the prior boot system, and doing a factory reset to make it stick.
Crikey. Really is a linux box, complete with having to fix update breakage.
#steamFrame #vr

Played #unloop #steamFrame #vr

Google Earth is too much though. Crashes about 40% of the way through 'building the earth'.
#googleEarth #vr #steamFrame

No Man's Sky takes a long while to install, being so huge. Surprising that it runs at all on this stand-alone headset really but five frames a second or so isn't going to work for me no. So we need the Vive there still until streaming can work at least.
#noMansSky #steamFrame

The Steam Frame arrived.
Not a great experience so far really.
The Wifi-dongle that brings 6G streaming doesn't currently work on Linux V6 kernels. Which is what Debian has.
Apparently Windows is the only thing fully supported really. Internet doesn't even sound that optimistic about the Steam Machine though it ought to at least work once I have one of them.
Streaming from the linux box is mostly unsuccessful during this lunch break here. Slow to start and timing out, slow to get going. Presumably partly coz only 5G wifi.
Controllers feel light and shoddy, aren't tracked particularly well. Pistol Whip scores well down due to the dropping frames and the terrible tracking of the aim.
Overall seems worse than the Vive at 30 minutes or so of playing with it.
Hope they improve it I guess, and streaming might work better once there's a machine with a V7 linux kernel compatible with this wifi dongle in the house.
Fairly comfortable to wear, though the foam attached by magnets comes off too easily as you don or remove the headset.
Sadly, this is not currently a machine which beats Facebook's Quest3 at all.
Have tried to install Alyx and Doom VR on it directly. Can't tell how that goes till after work now really.
#steamFrame #vr