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Steam Frame pricing and release date revealed by Valve - it's a lottery again (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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  • Steam Frame 256GB: 1,059 USD / 1,529 CAD / 1,049 EUR / 889 GBP / 1,609 AUD / 4,539 PLN
  • Steam Frame 1TB: 1,299 USD / 1,859 CAD / 1,279 EUR / 1,089 GBP / 1,969 AUD / 5,549 PLN
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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

It was finicky to get setup and their company was overwhelmed with support requests for months. One of the guys in my makerspace had one and we managed to get it working (it helped that they were EEs). Outside of some rare dropped frames it was pretty smooth without any noticeable latency increase.

The Frame just uses standard Wifi7 which can push around 17-20Gbps, more than enough for low latency compressed video. It would take minimal hardware to connect to Wifi, and run the video through some hardware decoder.

I understand why they're competing with the Quest, I'm buying one because it's a good standalone that isn't made by a data vacuum company (not yet, at least). The privacy aspect and Linux solidarity are what got me (I'm also selling my Index, so it's a 'cheap' upgrade)