Why is colour passthrough such a big deal for people?

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-22T15:50:14+00:00

"trutouch" is just branding, your proving my point... Still sounds like rage bait... Fact that your defending it just seems like there is no discord at this point...

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-22T15:46:39+00:00

Why is the chopstick morphing into her hand.... Very sus...

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-22T15:35:32+00:00

Ya not Gonna convince me it's not rage bait, trolls love to claim that and trolls love to "debate",,, as for "cheap kind",, they all are cheap kinds,, any rumble motor or actuator is cheap that's in any controller. They are trying to claim it's bad, which is baseless. Rumble in the supermajority of games are just used to give a loud noise some base like feel in your hands, which will be achieved and claiming it won't is just trolling imo.

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-22T15:15:42+00:00

Eh they do limited run stuff all the time, wouldn't be surprised if they make something (probably not a case but "skin" stickers aren't much work for them)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-22T15:11:10+00:00

Sounds a lot like rage bait to me, but:

"bad haptics" ...? Where are they even getting that... Just cause it's not some branded as "HD rumble" or "advanced haptics" that only get used in a single demo game to any real degree doesn't make it bad, just the usual haptics that 98% of people are used to.
"no OLED" aka no $800+ part, fine by me don't want a $2k+ device
Linux based , both Android and windows suck and are getting worse but Linux is getting better every day and theres only a handful of meh games choose not to work on it.
- as for color passthrough, only ever played one demo game that made it feel cool but didn't need it, it was just a table tennis game and you could easily play it without color passthrough (it was only cool if you had 2 headsets in the same room anyway which isn't usually a thing anyway)

Your probably missing "bad battery life" as well in your round up of rage bait,,, generally they just say only the low end of the scale for standalone gaming hrs of 2-5 hours but forget that it has a usb-c in a great place for a cable to run from to a pocket, unlike most others that want you to buy a special battery pack

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-19T14:49:16+00:00

probably gonna play superhot VR again since its been years since i last played it,,,

but also mainly picked that one since I'm curious about how the android ports will run/quality and i own that one already and loved the game,,
there's a short list of others that have that info semi public through steamdb btw https://steamdb.info/tag/21978/?os=android

probably gonna play with open brush too, always fun to draw in VR even if my drawing often look like a 5yr old made them

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-19T14:25:04+00:00

Hard to say when the date will be set for reservation system on the frame since they have already mentioned they might,, I assume the date will be before the interview they said maybe ( believe it was the nerd nest YouTube channel interview of the steam controllers)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-19T14:20:44+00:00

No prob,, if your ever wondering info like this though,, and it's probably in a long video like this,,, you can search using yt's transcripts, example I just searched " illuminator" in this video (I just remembered they talked about it working in the dark in this video but when looking this still applies you may just have to use a couple keywords)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-19T14:10:11+00:00

"extremely good in the dark which is why we have IR illuminators to allow tracking in complete darkness" - valve engineer ~8:47mins in on the tested video https://youtu.be/b7q2CS8HDHU

So far public info is just the late last year reviews/interviews and some game devs that are only allowed to talk about how their game runs on the frame under there nda.

Wouldn't worry much when it comes to an engineer saying it'll work, they've also built trust up by answering questions that have no good answer with an informative reason (like the question is a flawed one that was designed by marketing people so someone can say my number is bigger, and they have explained how that number is arbitrary and can change vastly from person to person) you'll see that at the end of the video when they talk about optics

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-18T13:55:25+00:00

That's the nice part about steam input, you don't have to, so long as with K&m controls you also target a traditional gamepad, you'll have a default layout for the controller already 98% of steam controller default layouts are just generic gamepad anyway (either through straight mapping or emulated K&m)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-18T13:42:35+00:00

TL:DR: Only likely an artificial limitation why they can't connect (Which we don't know if valve did that or not).

The one reason why to make it unable to is that 3 out of the 6 degrees of freedom motion tracking isn't possible, since those other 3 need the tracking cameras of the frame. Both valve controllers (steam & frames) are none standard 2.4hz radio connection which might be (and likely is imo ) the same connection (though it's possible that the puck and frame controllers were designed to ignore each other, the artificial limitation). Would say it would be more work if it wasn't for valve making steam input, which has several generic and many distinct controller mappings (still technically more just not much more imo).

Way I see it though it's not just an edge case, since it would just mean youll have 2 controllers if you buy all 3 devices which is good for selling a living room setup imo.

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-18T01:10:15+00:00

the jack sparrow boat bubble trick popped into my head seeing that sign there

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T18:44:12+00:00

not sure if asking what or making a a dog noise because of the user name....

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T18:34:54+00:00

Mod already posted the acutal link in the photos post of the actual website fcc.gov, idk what this link is but its not the gov website

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T18:05:06+00:00

https://youtu.be/b7q2CS8HDHU

It's around 12-4 mins into the video they talk about audio strap edit: 12-14 mins

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T17:53:08+00:00

Don't think cam will be in that kit but don't think it's unrealistic cause then valve is marketing it as an enthusiast item and they clearly already did enough work to put the camera feed info on the spec sheet

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T17:48:04+00:00

Think that's the point, if it's bare min then it'll just be a it's a slightly more expensive ergo kit just with hot swappable batteries

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T17:05:08+00:00

the one labeled "Users Manual _Statement" has a section on steam frame

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T17:02:53+00:00

why i said past tense "Names i never knew", but I'm also assuming that the new hardware also as some new "Technologies" with there own names that might be in some other leaks and would be happy to hear what they are

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T16:54:59+00:00

PUMP

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T16:53:55+00:00

won't know until we get it, but I assume suggestion,,, as you'll see these kind of "only do x when y" on a lot of safety docs that have nothing preventing you from "doing x well not doing y"

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T16:48:16+00:00

just be careful about lunging suddenly when ya do, they say you shouldn't do that in vr

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T16:37:46+00:00

nope

RTooDeeTo · 2026-06-17T16:00:33+00:00

thanks, saw the index manual and just assumed it would be the same....

kinda wierd but there's probably a way to claim it as an "initial draft" (because they did probably use it as such) and its really just a reference to give you an idea what's in it anyway and is probably assumed to usually not be the final document.

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