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I just saw the announcement for the new HTC Vive standalone. I'm going to wait until someone figures out a way to run games on the thing, and then I might consider dropping $600 on that setup.

It's not a great idea to buy products which require you to hack them.

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Unless your an, ahem, hacker. What site is this? Then these kinds of things make you drool at the possibilities.

He might be talking about Focus 3 maybe?

Chances are they’re talking about the vive flow, which released today. General consensus is it lacks mini-oled and the resolution it would need to be “next gen’. Among other bizarre shortcomings

Vive figured out that during chip shortage their best bet is to copy Oculus Go.

But it is too bulky and expensive to appeal to the very casual VR users. And the only two use-cases are watching YouTube or using subscription meditation / fitness apps.

They can try to sell it to enterprise clients or hospitals though

Personally I think the new Vive Flow looks awesome (physically). I'm doubtful it'll be a good headset because of the specs. The refresh rate is only 75Hz. Everyone is aware that 90Hz is the minimum required to remove motion sickness for most humans. Phone as a controller, I'm doubtful this will work well. HTC Focus 3 still seems like the headset to beat

I just use Unity and create my own experiences - I don’t find the SDK limiting in any way as it is. There’s nothing I’d like to create that I can’t, beyond maybe a custom home room?

I'll wait until someone else creates a sort of marketplace, or at least clear methods to install games.

A 500$ Quest 2 without Facebook spying sounds great.

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