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  • Yeah that’s my exact issue. I’m not interested in gaming on the things built in chipset. Were getting to the point where resolutions are high enough that these can become viable monitor replacements.

    Imagine the apple vision with the openness of a standard PC. Snapdragon based ARM chips get in the way of that. No standard firmware like UEFI/BIOS, no mainline GPU drivers, and most devices built on them give no way to change is signing keys like secure boot on PC or pixel devices.

    They’re going to have to do a lot of work to maintain the openness a PC gives from the get-go. Is it possible? Sure. I just don’t have much hope anymore.



  • Its a better architecture but it has no standard firmware implementation that allows you to implement an OS across a broad spectrum of chipsets and boards from all manufacturers (like UEFI).

    Sure you can make a generic arm image, but a lot of hardware drivers are not properly implemented in mainline kernel. For most hardware, such an image would be mostly useful to developers and tinkerers looking to see what’s technically possible. Unless they want to try writing/forking drivers themselves.

    To pretend this will be as open and user modifiable is goofy, I kinda doubt well get official support for non-steam OS’s.

    Even if we do, would we be able to change the signing key to make sure its secured from evil maid, a-la safeboot?

    The interest for me isn’t at just the idea of a gaming device, but an open source friendly face-mounted general purpose computer. Like apple’s HMD without the vendor lock-in.

    Also you’re right about the price, not sure where I saw $1300. My bad.


  • I get why they didn’t put an x86 chipset in it, but I’m still upset about it. Putting any desktop OS on your handheld is neat, but doing on your vr headset is industry changing IMO.

    What really gets me is they couldn’t at least include a sensor array for preexisting steamVR tracking, especially since the controllers seem to be an a direct downgrade from knuckles/index controllers.

    No one paying valve 1300 for an HMD is looking to put ease of setup over bleeding edge VR tech. If they are, make it a cheaper side product and actually compete with meta…

    Edit: My bad, they didn’t announce price yet. Not sure where I saw $1300…

    If it’s the right price it’d be a bit more understandable, even if it wasn’t the rumored magic HMD I wanted lol.