Haha, well maybe a bit heretical considering this declares itself to be the successor to steamdeck_linux and not even just steamdeck. Guess I wouldn't worry about it too much though.

@k3yword @Pickle_Jr @steamdeck

Other user suggestions on Mastodon:
@kevinrothrock
@MarQs
@ManyRoads
@timkmak
@ChrisO_wiki
@ScottLucas
@michaelh992
@Landcombatmissiles
@joannekelly

Things changing right now too since people are moving in from Twitter so more good accounts may pop up...

(obligatory mentions while posting from mastodon->lemmy: @curryandbeans @ukraine )

External trackers... so that sounds like they literally just use it as a display that has no idea how your head is oriented or moves. All that has to be added through other hardware. Which makes sense since that probably is one of the most challenging things to implement for this, still a very long way to go for anything actually usable if it even happens.

@kbinator @virtualreality

Wagner is the only one involved and isn't really a random mercenary group though. Prigozhin is (was) in Putin's inner circle and Wagner was a tool of the Russian government. I don't think this is all that different from a faction in the armed forces trying to stage a coup as happened during Soviet times.

Of course when nukes are fought over it is always scary anyway which is why the USA didn't really want the Soviet Union to fall apart either.

@Jaximus @YellowtoOrange @ukraine

Haven't watched this in full yet but the "race to the bottom" type comments about how you need to make a device that people actually want I heard about from @davemark here on Mastodon.

#PalmerLuckey said that before too, in the context of the Oculus Quest that time IIRC. He's not entirely wrong in that we do need the high end devices that offer the best experience possible to drive things forward. Personally I just think we can and should have the low-end too.

@lloram239 @virtualreality

Interesting video. Didn't see anything particularly exceptional here but nice to see the UI in any case.

Would have loved to have seen some more desktop-like windowing features but aside from being able to open and place more than one open application I didn't catch anything. I think the mobile phone / tablet legacy of the standalone devices is holding back the UX ideas to an extent, VR has the potential to be much more PC-like.

@lloram239 @virtualreality

Thanks, this was quite informative as to what the state of things are on the Windows side.

That said, I highly dislike the idea of undermining Valve's efforts to get PC gaming less dependent on Windows so certainly will not be using any of this.

@Louise @Saitama @steamdeck

@barsoap @ukraine
Thanks, despite the downvotes this seems informative and helpful to dispel Russian propaganda narratives. It is not useful to deny the existence of right wing Ukrainians but it is to show us how they actually think and what they actually want.

@netwren @virtualreality

I think it has been fairly apparent since the release of the quest after which Meta started no new projects targeting PC and of course many developers shited their attention to that standalone too.

Do you also mean lack of ports for games intended for Quest? On the bright side Amid Evil VR reported better sales on PC than Quest. PCVR could also benefit from there now finally being PSVR2 to target alongside it.

Luckily there's all the VR mods too, Praydog is a hero.

@wizzor @Wilshire
@ukraine

There have been countless accounts of Russian mobiks and people drafted into LPR and DPR forces having to purchase their own gear, getting old and broken stuff etc.pretty much from the start of the war.

Then again Ukrainians are not always able to equip units well either. Donating helps.

@sab @selfhosted @mike Do you know if there is a way to make it a link post from masto or is that also just a limitation for microblogs? It seems like attaching media is at least possible.

@Los Grabbed CC3, SMAC, X-COM: Apocalypse and Incoming. I tend to like Gog for the retro games still. Going to wait for Steam sale for more. Steam deck has definitely caused me to prefer steam a little bit more even though I do play games from other stores with Lutris/Heroic on it.

@mike That is interesting, I was curious about whether it is possible to post to lemmy from mastodon... Seems like part of your message ended up becoming the title so I wonder if there is a way to format the message in a way that won't look out of place on lemmy

@sexy_peach In one of Hromadske's reports from Bakhmut a drone team did quote a fairly high number for drone losses. Not sure how accurate 10k a month is but it doesn't strike me as completely unbeliveable in relation to that.

@BombOmOm I don't think they have been promised Gripens or even Hornets yet? Swedes are only training and Australia is considering giving their old Hornets

I think the Brits were training them on another fighter in RAF service too.

@Thorny_Thicket @Eqweytr Gepard can only help to a limited degree because the Russian KA-52s have ATGMs that have a significantly longer range than a Gepard.

If that is such a great idea why is Quest doing so extremely well compared to PCVR right now?

I think the issue is more that we need both. There will not be any incentive for anyone to make any VR software if there are not users and clearly even the current VR headsets are of interest to enough people that you can build a market if you have a price they can afford.

Meta exclusively focusing on Quest and dropping Rift completely was what really was bad for VR.

It's just the term used in some countries like Germany for FPS.

@nivenkos Yeah that is correct I believe, still no actual release of it besides system images for Steam Deck.

@Protegee9850 We're lucky that Microsoft is not making anything exclusive to their own store or Gamepass these days. Hopefully that will also remain the case.

For now the best solution is just to get your games elsewhere which I consider a win/win since that lets you play the games easily and incetivizes Microsoft to keep publishing on other platforms.