Can a stand-alone quest play Alyx?
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 23 hours agoPeople are buying entire consoles for one or two games. If folk can afford a 450 USD switch 2 for mario kart they can afford a facebook (ugh) quest for 300 bucks that regularly goes on sale.
Can EVERYONE? No. But this is a luxury hobby and plenty of discourse online is “I bought a PS5 for Demon Souls” or “I love Welcome Tour” and so forth.
Nah. Alyx was just completely ignored. Likely due to a mix of chuds not wanting to acknowledge women and… people don’t ACTUALLY care all that much about a new Half-Life. They just love meming about it.
slate@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
If you plug it into a PC that meets
- Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM
- VR Support: SteamVR
Then yes. Well, less plug-in and more pair these days since they do it over the network (so wifi).
And it even works on Linux (with ALVR) although Proton is shockingly finicky with Alyx but it isn’t too much tinkering.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
by itself no. requires a. pc thats like entry gaming in like 2016 standards though which isn’t particularly high.
modern (e. g past like maybe 2 years) igpus could probably run it
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
The difference is that you don’t need an entire room to play the Switch 2 (hell, you even need a TV). It’s easier to scrape together the $500+ required for a console than it is to afford a down payment and a mortgage, or the extra rent for a two-bedroom instead of a one-bedroom apartment.
Consoles and VR are both luxury goods, but the barrier for entry with the former is much lower than with the latter.
Space will always be the most expensive peripheral of all.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Already addressed that in the other branch but:
Sitting and standing VR are both a thing and are both supported in Alyx. All you have to be able to do is rotate your chair 180 degrees away from your desk and you can play it. Hell, you can play it AT your desk but I would not recommend waving your arms in front of a monitor…
Or, to put it in Nintendo terms: If you can play Welcome Tour and the game that is totally not wheelchair basketball, you can do seated VR.