Financially the Witness did way better than Braid. Like on the magnitude of 10x more.

If I remember correctly Valve paid for this build system specifically for ARM support, so yeah I think that is going to happen.

They said all products will launched in all markets the Steam Deck currently ships in, and I believe their full list included Australia

Early leaks were pointing to a Alyx sequel, but I think the more recent leaks are pointing to it just being Half Life 3, which would presumably be playable on the Deck. Frame and the new Steam machine.

I mean I think better Linux SteamVR is a given since they are selling the new steam machine as an option for streaming to the Frame.

It is Deckard, from the looks of it won’t be as powerful as the steam deck but not because the ARM chip is slow. They said it is just because the effective TDP of the ARM chip (after subtracting all the work it is doing to track the headset and controllers and do the rendering) is like 7 watts, compared to the 15 watts of the steam deck. So you will probably still be able to run some of the more indie games on it. The translation later is also a 10-15% slow-down for CPU bound games, but they said should be negligible for GPU bound games.

I believe they mentioned that it is basically HDMI 2.1 but some features weren’t supported maybe 4:2:2 color, I don’t remember. I think they also mentioned they are working on fixing it so they can call it HDMI 2.1 but they aren’t sure if they can so they are just calling it 2.0 right now to be safe.

They actually already shipped that as a limited edition last year.

I have one of these and taking it apart to clean is a nightmare. It will get very moldy and there is no practical way to actually clean one of these, apparently the designers didn’t consider you might want to take it apart to clean it. So I have taken to spraying car AC cleaner into it like once a year. Ideally, you are supposed to clean out your Window AC once a year.

Oh lol, I didn’t realize the article was about all these flaws. Yeah the issues outlined in this article are basically my experience I plan to eventually replace it with a more traditional window AC that doesn’t have so many mold issues.

The first one worked with some kernel patches, there is a Discord server (Linux Adventures in VR) with lots of information about getting various headsets running in Linux.

If you are interested in Valve you might want to wait, rumor is we get at least an announcement very soon. I say this as someone that pre-order a Bigscreen Beyond 2 though, lol.

Do you have a source for this, I was trying to find anything about it but couldn’t. It would be quite interesting if they do end up taking it down, and I would love to read more.

I think part of this software at least in the description on the website is easy and reliable detection of LLM bots to block. You can run it and it will generate statistics about bots that get caught in it so you can easily block big lists of them.

Don’t think they are lying about the denial, they said they wanted the upgrade to be big and the z2 is marginally better than what the Steam Deck already has. I would guess a Steam Deck 2 is years away, but we might get a Steam Home Console, or maybe the Deckard VR headset. I kinda doubt any of those would run a z2 though. Why would Valve be using an off the shelf chip when they had a custom chip last time?

It’s Tyler, but he includes the decompiled String in the videos found in other Source 2 games. YouTube Link

While personally I really want more VR Half Life, I don’t think that is what we are getting. Too many leaked strings regarding crowbars and HEV suits. But I guess we will see.

Kinda doubt it will be an Alyx sequel, unless there is something new and exciting they can do in that space. Valve doesn’t like to make games just to advance the story, and I’m not sure what more they could do in VR.