Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  even more nuts is that it will support pc games via FEX, an emulation layer that runs x86 windows games on ARM in Linux

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Crazy…

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But does it have a crazy price?

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      • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Im guessing Vive prices. Id be suprised at less than 1k, but no word on it yet.

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• iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Any ideas on Linux support?

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  • vodka@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They talked about streaming VR games from the SteamOS based steam machine to it.

    So with that I’d assume we’re finally getting some much needed progress to SteamVR on linux.

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    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, this is what I’m most looking forward to in the immediate sense tbh. It’ll be nice to play HLA without crashing every time it loads a new level as it currrently does for me in SteamVR (Monado doesn’t have this issue, but I can’t use my left-handed controls without Steam input :-|)

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  • aski3252@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The headset itself is running linux and it is meant to be used with the steam machine, which also runs on linux.

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  • chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    pretty sure it’s SteamOS, an Arch Linux derivative, on a fairly popular Snapdragon platform. probably not too difficult to hack on it.

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    • Cooper8@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It days right in the marketing text that the headset is “a PC” which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It says that it can run Windows applications so it might be the first VR headset that you can actually develop a game on.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My understanding from the video is that the headset will run SteamOS itself.

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  • Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its a standalone headset that runs steamos.

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