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i was gonna get a quest 3 for christmas but then the steam frame got announced and i was like HELL NAH and thew my quest 3 ideas out of the window. if everything falls into place il have my steam frame just intime for my birthday :D

gone will the days where i will be kicked from vrc lobbies for being a "Questie". gone will be the days of my game crashing mid snuggle session, gone the days of having a lowkey mid game selection (apart from like metro awakening as if i was gonna get the quest 3 i would have 100% gotten that game)

cant wait to get ittttt (also i cant wait to play half life alyx on it)

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[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

Hey, you do realize that the steam frame isn't going to have enough horsepower to run full pcvr vrchat on it's own right? You'll still be about to run the Android version, but that's just the quest version still.

Now if you plan to stream from your full gaming PC it'll be great, but realize that the frame itself is a little less powerful than a steamdeck which can barely handle full PC VRChat in desktop mode.

Don't get me wrong, day one purchase for me too.

[–] helimopp@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

ok so do you want me to get the steam frame or not

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I just want you to understand what it can and can't do, if you buy it expecting to get a full pcvr experience out of it without streaming from a PC then you are going to be disappointed.

[–] helimopp@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sure? It's 3 times more powerful than the quest 3, and the quest 3 can do some cool stuff

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The steam frame, while seemingly really cool, just won't be able to handle the worst of pc vr chat because it's 100% guaranteed to be worse than a dedicated pc. Dedicated pcs already struggle with vr chat. It's because there's a million people with custom unoptimised player models everywhere.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

VRChat has many many options to deal with that. My PC only has an RTX 2060 and it manages ok.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, we'll see if the steam frame can handle it. I imagine it won't.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

I think it's more a question of, how will it look once the settings are knocked down enough for a smooth framerate.

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