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The rumored Deckard standalone VR headset from Valve sounds exciting.
I really don't think it will come out in 2023 though. Overall the PCVR tech seems to be stagnating at the moment. Which is a real shame because I am on the lookout for a headset but all the available ones don't work for me. Basically I just want the equivalent of the PSVR2 (OLED screen, decent resolution, eye tracking) as a PC headset
The HTC Vive Pro can be retrofitted with eye-tracking and has decent OLED screens. But the real problem is that there is very limited software support for eye-tracking on the SteamVR side and that will probably only change once Valve releases something new with eye-tracking support.
I wasn't aware that the vive pro has OLED displays. Really sucks that the pro 2 doesn't, I would want a higher resolution than the vive pro
In the same vein, Bigscreen Beyond. I can't believe how small it is.
Technically 2024 but the Apple Vision Pro headset is blowing my mind
Even with that price tag?
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For new tech like that price point is expected to be high. The key point that I’m excited about their headset is that they ironed out a bunch of problems so now other companies can mirror the solution and lower the cost eventually.
The expansion of the more robust mobile gaming handheld sector. Systems like the ROG Ally and Steam Deck are an awesome new direction for gaming and I'm pumped to see that sector expand and mature.
Just a crazy thought. Have you watched WWDC? The new development tools for conversion to native metal is so exciting. I was just thinking that I would totally buy a hypothetical M1 steam deck passively cooled huge battery. That’s s just a dream though haha.
I haven't seen it but the shift to ARM for heavy computing really excites me from a mobile gaming standpoint. Do somewhat worry about how emulating all our existing game libraries on a new architecture is going to work though.
Anything about porting games to Apple APIs is completely disinteresting to me. M1 is a great chip, but MacOS is a terrible OS (and I say that as I type on an M1 Mac Mini I use as a TV PC) especially where gaming is concerned.
Much more exciting IMO is the work being done for Asahi Linux. Getting the M1 to run proper OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan along with the work being done on Linux X86-on-ARM emulation (box64 and FEX) is a much more promising direction for gaming on M1. I hope we also see other ARM chips from other vendors with the same amount of computing and graphics performance that could actually find their way into gaming handhelds not owned by the worst company for consumer freedom in tech.
- Emacs 29 (featuring improvements to the built-in help system)
- NetBSD 10.0 (which has been in development nearly 3 years!)
- The FreeDOS 28th Anniversary Ebook (the working title is Why We Love FreeDOS)
- Long shot: better support for GNU Guix to run on GNU Hurd
Found the foss enthusiast, can't wait for emacs
ThirdParty support for managing PassKeys. Especially the password managers BitWarden and Enpass. Having a main stream pubkey based authentication mechanism will hopefully vastly improve security and reduce ugly attack vectors.
I was hoping for a switch 2 this year, but that is seeming less likely now.
bro yuzu on steam deck and u'r set for life xd
I haven't found the firmware on the high seas and I'm not keen at the idea of dumping it myself
There are rumours of early to mid 2024 with the second Pokemon dlc
I'm curious how the foldable Pixel will turn out. Especially if it'll still be so moddable and have a relockable bootloader... Kinda doubt it
If I'm ever to get a folding phone, it would have to be. After my current phone I swore I will never get a phone I can't change the OS on again
I guess it's good, affordable presence detection which could enable some really cool home automation use cases.
ROG Ally. Finally a good device which lets me play any of my indie games on my commute. This is important to me as I'm the dad of a 7 week old girl, and my commute is the only time I have for gaming now.
Genuine question, why not Steam Deck? I enjoy playing indie games (Into the Breach, One Step from Eden, Into the Void, etc) on my Steam Deck on bus.
It's not available in Norway, and probably won't be any time soon. I could have it sent to a collection point in Sweden and pick it up there, but then I'd have a lot of trouble dealing with a warrenty claim if something doesn't work.
Norway is an odd country to miss out. I kinda just assumed they'd released it in every stable European country.
We're a really small non-eu market. I completely understand why they haven't bothered launching it here.
:(
Sorry to hear that. It makes me thankful that even in a small Asian market like Hong Kong I can get a steam deck through official channel.
I'd definitely have gone with the SteamDeck had it been officially sold here. A more console like experience and the trackpads would have been great for RTS games. Bought a steam controller from a colleague, so at least I can use that for RTS when connecting the ally to a TV.
I preordered one. I love my Steam Deck and am interested to see how much better it performs, but I plan on installing Linux (some form of SteamOS) because I really hate Windows. SteamOS is an amazing interface for a handheld and with the Ally running AMD, it should run Linux very well. ETA PRIME did a video on Linux on the Ally and it looks very promising.
Second gen. Pixel Watch. Not expecting anything groundbreaking tbh, but skipped the first one and have $$$ burning a hole in my pocket.
I want to love a smart watch but i just don't feel like they're worth it tbh
I have the Samsung Watch4 and it's cool and all but the battery life sucks (lasts like a day max) and i don't get any really useful information from it that is accurate enough for me to use
I just ended up using it to see notifications and changing the music but i feel like i could have done that for a lot less than $250.
Is there a use case that i might be missing out on? What do you use them for?
Pebble was one of the good ones. I've gotten an inexpensive one running Android Wear, but I find myself seldom wearing it compared to my dumb watch. I wore my Pebble every day since it could last a damn week or more without charging, and the screen was very pleasant to the eyes.
Haha I feel that. My Casio digital watch is all i use nowadays
Charging is too much of a hassle for me for what i get in return
I have a Fitbit versa 3 that I also use for a very limited number of things, but those things are critical for my day to day:
- notifications: my phone is always on vibrate, id never know when I was getting messaged or called without it.
- alarm: I wake up before my partner, who has sleep issues, so it's perfect for that, reliable and unintrusive.
- sleep tracking: I'm not sure I trust the specific numbers (although generally I do think it's pretty accurate), but it is helpful for establishing a baseline and informing me if the reason I feel like garbage is because I didn't get enough sleep or not.
And actually I think that's it. I thought there was more, but that pretty much covers it. Oh also, sometimes helping with calories tracking.
MNT Pocket Reform will ship end of year
Cheaper LTO-7