So a steam machine.
Steam Deck
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
A very compact, portable steam machine.
With battery too
Just makes me think of Voidstar Labs. It sounds useless as a gimmick, it involves 3D printing, and it could turn an entire gaming device into wearable tech. Amazing.
Someone send this to Zack.
How are these glasses? Any good?
That actually is something that I've been contemplating doing. I never use the built-in display - HMD glasses are just much nicer.
If you hate your Steam Deck. :D Jokes aside, I am always flabbergasted by the ingenuity and knowledge of extreme modders like him. He has a use case and first it sounded stupid, but after reading a little bit it makes sense for him. I guess there is no solution like this one can buy, right? Or is it too expensive? It just hurts me personally seeing the Deck crippled like that (just jokingly talking here, man I am funny as hell today). But there was some really cheap refurbished old Decks sold on the Steam site.
Interesting project, but not my taste to be honest.
Reminds me of mods like the GameCube Nano. I dunno if it's possible, but it would be kinda cool if someone figured out how to shrink the Deck further.
I can't help but figure it'd be cheaper to custom build a device instead of stripping down a Steam Deck. I suppose it was probably gotten used, but still.
If you buy a refurbished one on sale it's pretty cheap, I double you can make a comparable powerful device that compact for that price.
Every day we stray further from the light …
Can the Deck even drive VR graphics? It's a powerhouse at it's native 1280x900 resolution but it tends to struggle with the most graphically intensive games, much less VR.
VR has to render the game twice to give you depth perception, which is a big part of the increased resource requirements.
This isn't trying to do that, it's only displaying the game once. The effect of the glasses is supposed to be like having a TV a few feet in front of you.
The PS4 could drive VR. I suspect this would be similar. A bit fuzzy, crap framerate in places.
You could run the simpler games like Beat Saber well enough.