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Guy modded his steam deck be as small as possible, with the only intended use to be to play with an external controller and AR glasses.

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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A very compact, portable steam machine.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago

With battery too

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

How are these glasses? Any good?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

That actually is something that I've been contemplating doing. I never use the built-in display - HMD glasses are just much nicer.

[–] thingsiplay 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Every day we stray further from the light …

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I say “”””yes”””” you might disagree. Here’s my findings https://startrek.website/comment/13646875

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

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.