Steam Frame, Reviewed: Valve’s Ambitious VR Headset Feels Like an Experiment in Progress
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7.0
Pros & Cons
- Lightweight
- Runs Steam games, in VR and 2D
- Works with PCs as a streaming wireless headset
- Eye tracking which improves VR game performance
- Can run Linux apps in desktop mode
- Short battery life
- Game support hit and miss right now
- Performance sometimes buggy
- No hand tracking yet
- Bad fit with my glasses
Gravity gloves on, I approach a dark passage. I can hear alien grunts. The voice on my headset tells me to watch out for “barnacles,” and I know to look up and shoot ceiling-hugging aliens with the gun in my controller-gripping hand. I’m in VR, playing Half-Life Alyx again. It’s a game I once played six years ago by rigging a VR headset to a laptop PC and installing room sensors in my pandemic home office.
Now I’m playing it on a standalone VR headset, no PC needed at all.
Yes, Valve’s...
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