Awesome Tips Steam Frame vs. Every Other VR Headset!
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Linus gathered every flagship VR headset he has tested in the last year or so, to compile a cohesive list comparing all the key specs to Valve’s new Steam Frame. He talks about Meta Quest 3, Big Screen Beyond 2, Meta Quest 3, and even the PS VR2! Will you be buying a Steam Frame? Let us know below
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:44 Steam Frame Recap
2:50 The ORIGINAL Steam VR Headset
6:50 Meta Quest 3
11:00 Apple Vision Pro
14:20 Big Screen Beyond 2
16:54 PS VR2
18:00 How Much $$$ is too much $$$
20:30 Outro
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Pico not mentioned… I get that it's a Chinese made headset and is not sold in the U.S. but come on. I have friends using Quest 3 and the issues they encounter are wild sometimes, I never have them on my Pico 4 Pro.
I tried a AVP 2 weeks ago. I could have cried when I saw my dog in 3D (filmed with iPhone 15pro max in spatial). But like Linus said, it's not a VR headset. And that's why I didn't buy it. I'll give it two years for the market to mature and that's coming from a guy who bought the OG oculus (v1 fromKS)
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Bosnia mentioned
cant look at his teeth without thinking he just finished a bag of cheetos without cleaning after
The price will decide everything.
LED is a crime.
$800+ and its dead in the water and meta will laugh and stay the same
Valve should make the VR geadset look like a combine helmet
I hope the state that the tech industry is in isn't going to destroy all these tech tubing channels. I guess we're going to see a lot more budget build tutorials
What about Pimax Crystal comparison?
No word on eye sight correction? Happy for all of you out there with perfect eyes, especially when you don't have any astigmatism.
With astigmatism, even a light one, forget about easy dioptric correction, because that will not help at all.
I'm just one of many millions out there with astigmatism. So yeah, the industry doesn't give a dime on us. But I will not wear my glasses under that VR headset.
As long as there is no easy and affordable (!) option to order and easily swap ANY kind of correction lenses, I'll not even try a VR headset.
I've read somewhere that Apple wanted to see a letter from your ophthalmologist first and then would charge you a fortune for irregular lenses to get some. Sure… Not.
Will Steam make a huge difference here? I have some doubts.
Linus is very much simping for Valve. People hate Meta, just because they are Meta. But when they charge $1,000 for a headset with similar features to the Meta Quest 3, it isn't going to sell well. Yes, you can play steam vr games, but it runs the power of an older Android tablet, it won't be powerful enough to run good pc vr games anyway. It will have to stream them. There are ways to improve the streaming on a meta quest for cheap, so at the end of the day, when you can find a Quest 3 for $500 with a big gift card bonus on black friday, why would you spend $1,000 just to have steam? You can literally get steam on your meta quest, and most GOOD games will need to be streamed anyway. You can get a massive game library on meta, still play steam games, and buy some things like a router to impove your streaming. The Quest 3 is still better for almost everyone. PLUS you get passthrough.
Instead of being honest and saying they will price themselves out of the market for most average consumers, and they will win the loyal valve worshippers, who will buy anything they sell, he ignores it, because Meta is Meta, no one likes Meta, so everyone will spend $1,000 for this. But that just isn't true for an average consumer
this is what im getting not the gabe box
It should be stated that pricing the Steam Frame right is super important at this point. To put it into perspective, it seems that there is a sizable majority of people who are willing to pay 100 or 200 dollars more than what the Quest offers, maybe out of support or loyalty to Valve, or out of distain for Meta. But once you start reaching 300, that majority shrinks. If they choose to price the Frame 400 dollars more than the Quest, people will definitely question the value of the Frame.
we really need to stop focusing on the headset. they are already great. we need to focus on everything else. controllers, and especially treadmills. If we can get those really good and cheap. VR may become mainstream
Bought a second hand PSVR2 headset about a year ago for use on PC hooking it up directly to my 6800XT, making it my first steps in to VR. And though I keep being blown away by the experience till this day, I am seriously considering upgrading to the Steam Frame next year. Not only to get rid of one of the few gripes I have have with my headset, being tethered, but also because I believe that 'good guy' Valve will be lifting things to the next level when it comes to support and gaming experience, just as they did with the Steam Deck and the Steam OS supporting it.
Hopefully Valve will also invest more in to VR games with this move like they did with HL: Alyx. They have the funds. Portal VR anyone?
0:07 I SAW DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
someone tell him about fluxpose fbt!
I tried looking into the eye tracking company you mentioned, and I see an outstanding €6,195 price tag, or $7,261
what world do we live in where people can afford ts but not a better vr headset :sob; valve will literally take them out of business in this market overnight
Sucks to have an IPD of 76mm
$700 likely. But if valve wants its to catch and have a good run at Q3 market penetration its gonna need it be 600 or even 500. Not to mention the PSVR2 option for Fresnel fans willing to be cabled.
Instead of Apple in this, i would have like to see Galaxy XR ($2050 with controllers)…which i consider closer to filling all (both)the "gaps" frame has: the micro-oleds (3552×3840 per) and color pass though. After that everything is pretty neck and neck… even if i personally think Frame takes every other category. Ergonomics, controller, library, open format, SD card, refresh rate. Not sure how the XR2+ stacks vs Gen 3 but I'm assuming close.
SD card is an important feature none of the corporate options have so it definitely deserves a mention.
Are you alright Linus? Sounds like you are getting sick.
"Recently Valve invited me…"
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Dude I can’t handle the yellow teeth situation…
This video release is timed perfectly as CIG just released a patch for Star Citizen with full VR support ❤️