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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 157 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Probably the only thing out of their new hardware lineup that has any chance of being released in the near future.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. Damn shame, but if they released the steam machine or frame at the moment, the price would probably have to be at the point it would ensure the product didn't have a chance to catch on. Pity, I kind of want a steam frame.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean I guarantee the timing is no coincidence with the chinese ram market crashing

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll keep my fingers crossed! 🤞

However I kinda suspect it may be valve responding to all the gamers who have been saying they want the controller now, it doesn't need ram so why wait to release it with the other products? I get that valve probably wanted to do a simultaneous release, but that just doesn't seem possible any longer.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 4 points 22 hours ago

GabeN said himself the hardware division must stand on its own financially. He doesn't want to subsidize it forever.

To keep Hardware anywhere close to the black - they have to get money coming in. The controller can drop unaffected by the Ram crisis, and recently unaffected by the illegal tarifs

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only thing I want, so hell yeah

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I want the vr headset but not for that price.

No I do not know what the price is.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have an Index and it was 100% worth the price. I used to play a variety of games (Half Life Alyx, Synth Riders and Until You Fall were my favorites) and then I discovered modded Skyrim. A couple years later and my mind is still blown every time I put my headset on and get to wander around Skyrim, look up at the mountains and sunsets, stealth through caves so dark I can barely see a thing, slay dragons using realistic archery where I have to reach back to get an arrow for every shot and actually aim my bow down the arrow, sword fighting involves more than just mashing attack and block, and I can cast spells with hand gestures. I sometimes go months without playing and then wonder why I stopped when I load back into it. I have to set a timer because I lose myself in VR and will play for hours and hours. Sometimes I turn it on and just go somewhere sit down and look at the scenery or watch the NPCs going about their lives.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There’s mods that take their clothes off too.

The real use case for vr

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you're going there, there's also VR porn. If you see someone on Steam playing DeoVR, they're watching SLR.

...I mean, so I hear

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you have a friend who constantly plays Skyrim for short periods they’re playing vr porn too.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Or it's just so heavily modded that it crashes every 10 minutes 😂

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'll keep an eye out 👀

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Index is great, I don't regret buying it at all.

Half Life: Alyx made me 'get' VR. I look forward to future AAA releases.

I haven't tried Skyrim VR. I did not know that was even a thing until now, thanks!

Here's some recommendations in exchange:

VTOL VR is DCS where you don't need a 50 hour tutorial to start the jet or $1200 in control hardware and head tracking (just a $1000 VR headset!).

Iron Rebellion is still early access/in development, but VR is begging for a good mech shooter and they've been making steady improvements.

XSOverlay is great, basically lets you access windows from in-game (I pin my Signal client, for example) just by rotating your wrist like you're looking at a wrist watch. It's a good way to get access to media controls/see who's at the door without going through the process of getting out of the VR setup.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Half Life Alyx made me forget I was playing a game.

Vanilla Skyrim VR is a terrible, buggy mess. Modded it's really good. Vanilla VR you just have hands and no body, can only equip weapons with a button, and can only have one weapon equipped at a time. With mods you can look down and see your whole body, have all your weapons in holsters that you draw from and switch between as needed (my default load is a short sword on each hip, a dagger on each forearm, and a bow with different enchantments over each shoulder). Mods also let you use the index controllers to their potential, so I can keep my hands open and to draw my weapons I literally just reach and grab my controllers like I'm actually grabbing the weapon. It adds a touch of realism that's just amazing.

I'm playing the Yggdrasil modpack. It's not perfect, but it's really good. If you aren't familiar with modpacks, the nice thing about them is that you don't have to worry about tweaking mods and making sure they're compatible, you just run through the modpack install and you're good to go. I've found it to be pretty stable as far as crashes, I did disable a few mods related to spellcasting that I didn't like, which you aren't supposed to do, and that has led to more crashing but I can live with it. Just save often.

I'll have to check your recommendations out!