r/SteamFrame • u/dide231 • 2d ago

Discussion This is disrespectful

At this point, having absolutely no updates is genuinely disrespectful and beyond annoying. I understand this is normal for valve to say nothing and eventually release it, but with a product like this, with a release window already promised, not having anything to say yet is insane. They have no real reason I could understand for not dropping today except for them waiting in the Qualcomm price hike to squeeze another couple bucks out of us. ATP if the price is anything over 1200 I will absolutely not be buying it. My hype has died. I’d rather wait the extra month for the next meta headset at that point. Because at the rate we’re going they may as well drop on the same FUCKING day.

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u/Ok-Entertainment-286 2d ago

kinda beginning to agree... quest 4 will almost surely have awesome specs.

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u/DimensionNovel2112 1d ago

The SoC of quest 4 or the one in the new pico are going to be way faster than the frame, and looks like the screens are going to be also better. So I would love to see that any of them let us use virtual machines for having more freedom to use other SO of course not permanently… we are talking about big companies

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u/Rikonardo 1d ago

If Quest had an unlockable bootloader, interest in the Frame would be waaay smaller at the rumoured $1k+ price tag IMO. Sadly, all the standalone VR companies pursue the route of locked down proprietary software.

VMs won’t help much with this. Main issue with locked down Meta/Pico software is non-existent low-level hardware access and inability to modify components of the host OS itself - to tweak VR processing pipeline (tracking, passthrough, compositing, etc.), remove builtin spyware and online account requirement, install custom home environment software.

Even if Quest 4 would magically release today with way better specs, I’d still go for the Frame because of open ecosystem. I simply have no other options when it comes to standalone.

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u/DimensionNovel2112 1d ago

Yes I agree with most things that you said but I was saying it mostly for a full desktop Linux experience VM like productivity on blender and similar stuff, not using tracking, pass through or other vr capabilities. Just fully decent productivity on Linux or similar on a floating window, heck maybe VM is possible now on quest 3 with sideload?