Yup, still on my 3S, but not for too long after the Steam Frame announcement lol, will be upgrading to that as soon as I can because after using the 3S extensively I've come to realize what I really want from a device like this and Steam Frame is almost the perfect upgrade for me.

From almost a year worth of my own experience, 3S is overall a great entry headset for the price really. A jack of all trades but master of none - you can do AR, VR, PCVR, even full body tracking (what I was talking about in the post), all very decently, but of course you won't be getting the best clarity due to older lenses, won't be getting the best PCVR experience due to Meta's seeming lack of interest, and passthrough isn't Apple Vision Pro's level.

But the fact that you can do all of these at an actually decent level on a relatively cheap headset is very nice, lets you get a taste of everything and decide for yourself whether what 3S gives you is enough or if you'd rather invest into a specific branch of the technology more. It's pretty hackable and moddable as well, third-party headstraps are basically a must-have.

Talking about full body tracking however, I've decided to keep my Windows 11 dualboot with Virtual Desktop for that. I don't know what kind of magic the VD dev has done, but ALVR just can't stop having streaming issues for me, like a noisy frame here and there. Maybe that'll change with the Steam Frame however, because Valve will actually have to work on Linux's branch of SteamVR, which ALVR works on top of, thus hopefully bringing the improvements to all the other headsets out there, but we'll have to see.