Valve Index 2 (codenamed Deckard) Standalone
- Thread starter ShiWarrior
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 14 Jun 2004
- Posts
- 7,633
savour of our times?
or door stop duty
A lot of over the top Saviour of our times posts. I didn't stay too long, no point.
Associate
- Joined
- 2 Feb 2009
- Posts
- 1,541
#underwhelmed
I do like the people saying they're still using ancient headsets, saying they didn't want to have to use their facebook accounts on meta...
Associate
- Joined
- 2 Feb 2009
- Posts
- 1,541
I didn't think you had to use your facebook account on the quest headsets.. I know as I don't even have a faceache account.. or was that your point.. and i'm just a bit short?
You did originally, but they stopped that not too long after the 2 was released. That was my point, people have been holding off buying meta based on a thing that's not been true for years now.
Is that with foveated streaming on
Soldato
- Joined
- 14 Jun 2004
- Posts
- 7,633
just finished watching Norm, theres a lot of info there hes passed on.
As far as I know. Eye tracking is enabled.
Soldato
- Joined
- 14 Jun 2004
- Posts
- 7,633
your using the steamvr beta?
Yes. It turns out you need both eye AND face tracking enabled for Steam Link to use eye-tracked foveated encoding on the Quest Pro - I only had eye tracking enabled.
I have now got it running smoothly, but it looks awful. Just low resolution and blurry compared to Virtual Desktop. Like comparing a Quest 2 to a Quest 3.
It's very smooth and my GPU is hardly breaking a sweat at even 200% supersampling, but Steam Link is simply not encoding at a high enough resolution and there's no sharpening feature either.
Virtual Desktop looks like it's playing on a much higher resolution headset.
Soldato
- Joined
- 14 Jun 2004
- Posts
- 7,633
may be submit a ticket to valve about it, see if they respond, or at least get it in to bug tracking
It's been an issue for ages. Maybe when Steam Frame releases they'll have tweaked it. Apparently on Play4Deam it works really well so no idea why it's so bad on the Pro - and always has been.
Soldato
- Joined
- 29 Aug 2010
- Posts
- 8,642
- Location
- Cornwall
One thought that occurred to me is that the battery is not part of the main unit, so how is that going to work with 3rd party headstraps? Are they going to replace the battery too? That'll make them even more expensive. Can you move the battery across to the other headstrap? Where will they put the additional battery?
Also, I know a lot was made about how good the wireless PCVR is, but can you still do wired PCVR?
Also, I know a lot was made about how good the wireless PCVR is, but can you still do wired PCVR?
Soldato
- Joined
- 30 Sep 2005
- Posts
- 16,858
Yeah they will have to. The strap is all connected (faceplate, strap, battery). There's also a properitery connector hmd side.
Heard a rumor there was an audio strap coming later so guess that will be the more traditional hard strap style.
I like the magnetic facecover rather than the usual velcro. Some bits have been well thought out, just a shame about the panels really.
Last edited:
Thinking on it, I'm not sure the steam frame quite knows what it is. Clearly targeting PCVR, but no displayport seem like a bit of a miss. Targeting mobile flatscreen gaming, but poor MR cameras will make it a miserable experience to actually use in public.
Even with that, it'll come to price. If they can hit close to the q3 price mark, they'll be OK. My fear would be that they're going to struggle to hit £470, and even if they get close, 2 years into production, it wouldn't surprise me if Meta could cut their prices on the 3, the 3s is already crazy cheap brand new.
Even with that, it'll come to price. If they can hit close to the q3 price mark, they'll be OK. My fear would be that they're going to struggle to hit £470, and even if they get close, 2 years into production, it wouldn't surprise me if Meta could cut their prices on the 3, the 3s is already crazy cheap brand new.