Sounds like a simple case of Google data-center located near you, Microsoft data-center not located near you?

Geforce Now is using AWS?

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Started playing Serious Sam 3 coop campaign with some friends. Actually pretty fun ;)

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I can see why Valve ended up not pursuing this... cool idea but IMHO very limited market and thus there will be hardly any games for it. But lets see how it will work out :)

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Needs VR support :)

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I really enjoyed TF2... until it became the F2P sh*tshow a few years ago. Way to ruin a game for short term loot-box profits :(

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIf that were accurate, attempts at making open source phones would have more platforms to choose from, and it seems to me the only ones they do tend to pick are the Mali GPUs. I'd have to look into it again, it has actually been a while. Still waiting on my Librem 5 phone...

See for example this: https://youtu.be/ZYCGVzkSIpg

But finding a suitable ARM SoC for a Linux phone is way more complicated than "just" having open GPU drivers for it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm betting Linux. None of the SoCs for ARM seem to have open source video drivers, which has caused heaps of problems getting updates onto the things. Though likely it'll be pretty embedded.

This is a bit outdated, the Panfrost drivers for Mali GPUs actually work fine and are fully open source, in fact most ARM GPUs have open-source OpenGL drivers these days, but they support status differs.

However Vulkan support is not as great yet so that might make things difficult.

Overall though, I could also imagine Valve going for an Android solution, as making a stand-alone capable headset and then having no games for it would not be very wise for business. While if it runs Android, then most Occulus Quest games should be quite easy to port over. But if Valve would sponsor Anbox (a compatibility layer to run Android apps on GNU-Linux) development, that would be also cool :)

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Wouldn't have to be 360, something with a reasonable overscan (like 150°-180° maybe) would be sufficient since the screen refreshes that quickly anyways.

But this does sound like it could maybe even connect to a SteamPal then... interesting. I wonder if it will run Android or regular Linux on the headset itself though.

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I wish they would release a non-snap, non .deb binary version though. given how many people use Manjaro/Arch or similar distros these days for gaming. (yes I am aware that snap works on Manjaro, but I am against snaps on principle that they use a centralized server for primary distribution.)

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So I tried it a bit... not quite a Crypt of the Necrodancer, but catchy tunes and innovative game-play.

Make sure to enable the visible beat indicator in the setting as otherwise it is hard to figure out the latency. For me it requires hitting the button just slightly before my brain thinks it is the right time. Either that is an actual technical issue with keyboard input latency, or my brain is just a bit odd :)

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