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Steam Frame Is $1059 & Comes With Standalone Half-Life: Alyx, Reservations Open Now (www.uploadvr.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MyOpinion@lemmy.today to c/virtualreality@lemmy.world

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Valve just officially revealed Steam Frame's price, announced that it comes with standalone Half-Life: Alyx, and opened reservations to secure a unit.

First revealed 10 months ago, Steam Frame is a "streaming-first" standalone VR headset with a USB dongle in the box that creates a point-to-point wireless connection between your PC and the headset.

Steam Frame comes in two storage variants, a 256GB model for $1059 or a 1TB model for $1299.

Both storage SKUs come with the headset, tracked controllers, and USB dongle.

To be clear, though, the headset has a microSD card slot, so you aren't limited to the onboard storage.

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[–] Arkthos@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn expensive, but if Meta is a deal breaker (it is for me), then there's really not many other wireless headsets it competes with. Maybe the galaxy xr with better displays but way, way more expensive.

At any rate, steamOS is certainly more exciting than yet another android system in my opinion, though that hardly matters for just streaming. It's refreshing that gaming is the focus, I threw up in my mouth a bit when galaxy xr called themselves ai -powered on their site. It's a bit unclear what they actually mean by that, so I'm just going to assume the primary goal is to run some 4b model or whatever locally: the screens are probably good enough to read the text output with relative ease.

Back to the frame and streaming: given that you can't yet stream from the steam machine to the frame, I have doubts you can do it from any Linux desktop yet, though hopefully that's resolved soon.