BTW the article is based off Tyler McVicker’s prediction. He was never good at predicting…
Well that better be good news… I groaned at $1,500 but Ive been waiting YEARS to get into VR because I wanted to wait for whatever new set valve would make and Jesus did it take forever
… I’ll do $1,500 begrudgingly, but it better not be $2k+…
Just based on vibes and RAM shenanigans in recent months I’ve been predicting $1600ish
I’ll still get it as my first vr headset at that price but I won’t be super happy about it
Look, they have a really hard time counting to Three, alright? 🤣
After the Vive and the Index, it just took them some time to learn there’s a number past two.
He predicted both Half-Life: Alyx and Deadlock with details years before the games came out.
He didn’t predict those games. Especially with Deadlock, he did analyze files and watched footage from the leaked gameplays of people not holding the emargo. The many times he did predictions about Deadlock and speculation about what type of game it was, he was not right or very vague that it has to be right. But my point was more about prediction of what Valve will do in future (or prices) and he was not really good at it, at least not better than someone in 4chan. Sometimes it happens to be true by chance, if you do just enough predictions.
He didn’t predict those games.
Not sure what criteria you are going for. He objectively was talking about HLX (codename for Alyx) and Neon Prime (early name for what became Deadlock) years before the respective games released.
watched footage from the leaked gameplays of people not holding the emargo
That’s shortly before release, at that point the game was not a secret anyway.
Of course none of this means he’s any better at guessing prices than anyone else.
He objectively was talking about HLX (codename for Alyx) and Neon Prime (early name for what became Deadlock) years before the respective games released.
As I said, that was about looking in filenames of files and trying to figure out what it was. He had no idea what HLX even was, so he didn’t predict Alyx, he predicted Half-Life 3. Same for Neon Prime… all he had going for was apparently people from the industry talking about the game and about filenames and variables that point to the name Neon Prime. Then he tried to infer what this could be and he was wrong about Neon Prime and Deadlock. All he talked was about the information he had, and any prediction to what the games will be was wrong.
I’m watching Tyler since years…
Admittedly I don’t watch him, you might know better. But I do remember stumbling upon a video of his talking about a new Half Life VR game he was datamining at least 2 years before Alyx came out.
I’d love to get into VR but not when a headset costs as much as a whole PC. Where is my no onboard processing hardware, tethered only budget headset? (That doesn’t record everything I do and send it to Zuck)
In terms of budget options you can still buy new, it’s probably pretty much just the PSVR2. Just at this moment you can get it for $300 direct from Sony (it’s listed at $399 but it’s on sale), though you’ll need to buy an adapter to use it on the PC, which is an extra $60. Still, it’s got a pretty decent resolution display, and it’s even got eye tracking, though I think you need a third-party driver to get that working.
It is tethered, though. I dunno.
PCVR is in a slump right now, though, and at this price, I don’t know that Frame is gonna fix that. It might not be the best time to buy new.
The old windows mixed reality headsets were that before it got discontinued
That sadly isn’t possible I don’t think, loss leaders will be out of style this decade I think sadly
I mean, I sold a Vive five years ago for about $250. If you want to give up standalone gaming, and cordless, and on board speakers, and inside out tracking, and virtually all of the innovations of the last decade in this space, then I have no doubt that you can find aging hardware that still runs, at a good budget price.
Yes, tech is getting unreasonably expensive. But this product was always going to be a head above the old generations of Valve VR hardware, and I’m stoked for such a flexible piece of kit that can support streaming from my beefy pc as well as, or better than, my locked down Q3.
So? I bought an index for $1000 approx. 8 years ago and it’s still awesome and still going strong. Considering inflation and the value added by being cordless and not needing a high-end gaming pc, $1500 seems pretty reasonable.
Actually less than I expected. I won’t be getting one (too expensive), but that’s a decent price for what it is.
There is one thing about the Frame: Its not a general purpose computer like a Steam Machine, and therefore Valve can subsidize it a bit. Maybe? I expect that most Steam Frame customers would play Steam games on it.
The insider in question? The poop from my butt
So it does come from inside…
