I think by standalone they mean ‘no PC’. Like the Quest ones that run the games on themselves.
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RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe Valve Index is here already and great. No bullshit like the Quest, just VR that works well. If you have a gaming PC with at least a quad-core and RTX 3060 then you should be good to get started with one. Mine works fine on a 9-year old gaming PC with 6 cores, 16GB RAM, and an RTX 3060TI. The motherboard is that old, the rest of the parts are newer (mostly GPU)
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
The index isn’t standalone 🤦♂️
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah no shit. Standalone isn’t as good as wired because you can’t fit a bigass Nvidia card inside a VR headset.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
I own a lot of VR games and the only one that doesn’t have a port that works natively on the Quest is Half-Life Alyx. Standalones can also be plugged in or stream PCVR wirelessly, and all of the standalone HMDs I am aware of, have better hardware than the aging Index.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, the Index still has a higher resolution than the Quest2 and earlier standalone VR headsets, and the Index still has a class-leading 130-degree field of view and 144Hz refresh rate. It has excellent sound and the best VR controllers on the market. It’s still an overall great VR setup for those of us that have good gaming PCs.
I’ve been playing Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 in VR on my Index recently using mods. It’s fuckin’ awesome.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re thinking of something that can work unteathered to a PC, like the rumoured valve deckard system
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right but you can’t buy one of those, they aren’t on the market. What Valve has currently is excellent already but you can’t walk around town wearing it (as if anyone would need to)
vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I get you but that’s not what the commenter above is looking for.
I know the Index is fantastic and I’m truly happy for you, but I can appreciate other people being in the market for high fidelity VR with a substantially lower asking price (along with a lower total cost of ownership as a standalone system).
We can’t let meta pull ahead in this industry unchecked, and I really hope Valve (or literally anybody else) can step up to this segment in the near future.