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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    It’s a brutal time to be releasing hardware like this.

    GPU prices, RAM, SSDs, all inflated through the roof.

    This should have been the price of a PS5 Pro, with the performance of a PS5 and it’s not even that.

    I still want the Frame, but only because my OG Rift died a couple of months back. I really don’t want to have to go crawling back to Meta for a Quest 3 when I see the price of the Frame, but I’m not optimistic. They really need a reduced spec Frame that just does the streaming portion. With RAM and GPU prices as they are, that would at least make some sense.

    • marighost@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      The price does spook me about the Frame, but I may get it out of desperation no matter the cost because like you said, there’s no way in hell I’d buy a Meta product. I absolutely loved my Quest 2, before Meta pushed all that metaverse shit and made the thing unbootable.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I’ll be buying the Frame no matter what.

      I also had the OG Rift but since I moved to Linux it’s been nothing more than a paperweight.

      I could go to Meta, but I honestly don’t want to do that to myself. The way I see it, the Frame is the only way I get to keep a small amount of privacy and dignity in this world which increasingly has neither.

      So I’m saving up my pennies.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 days ago

        If valve made the frame as it’s going to be and an index 2 that was the index but lighter with all around improvements but was still wired only with no battery pack, which would you buy? Standalone inside-out, or next gen pcvr with lighthouses?

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          2 days ago

          I don’t think I can even answer that question. Inside-our tech has really evolved since the old days and I couldn’t say hardware was intrinsically better or worse based on that like I could at the time.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      I’m REALLY hyped for the frame. Local processing PLUS streaming from a main rig that isn’t tied down to meta and doesn’t spy on you AND has native Steam integration!? Ouaauahhhhhyessssssfuuuccckkaahhhh