This is why AI researchers care so much about “alignment”: building AIs that share genuinely human beliefs and values. If we build a “misaligned” superpowerful AI — an AI with goals that are alien to us — it might sweep humanity away. It could kill everyone deliberately, e.g. to stop us getting in the way of some goal. It could kill everyone in passing, e.g. like we might pave over an anthill to build a road. Either way, everyone dies.

Ah so they think AI will kill us because capitalism fundamentally does not value human life and thus AI cannot currently be aligned with human beliefs and values because it is funded by shareholder greed.

That makes more sense now. Too bad no one is gonna fix the larger problem to prevent this. Might as well summon the horsemen now

Media literacy is hard for some people

No that sound exactly like tumblr

I have a Quest 3 and a fairly strong PC, I play almost exclusively PCVR because meta doesn’t need more info from me.

Its in a good state I’d say. Theres a ton of fun experiences out there, with VR mods for standalone games being some of the best experiences I have ever had in gaming, but I think overall VR still feels like its in its infancy due to low adoption, which is a shame cause the experience feels like its ready for prime time. This is most likely due to fragmentation of headsets and cost, as most PCVR headsets cost $1000+ and require making a lot of space for a good experience, while standalone headsets are more affordable and do support PCVR, but come at the cost of privacy most likely being violated and training AI.

Which is where the Steam Frame begins a new era of VR that will most likely be the first domino in a long string of improvements. Its a little more powerful than the Quest 3, and lacks built in color passthrough which is a shame as taking off and putting a headset back on repeatedly can be annoying, but Steam Frame represents a change in how VR headsets and their ecosystem can be built.

On the hardware side, theres a lot customizeability that can be done with the headset. The compute module, battery, and face gasket are all separate pieces, meaning they can be swapped out with third party options or in the event of the compute module, you could upgrade to a Steam Frame 2 and not need the other parts. The face gasket has the microsd card slot, as well as seems to be where the wire for the battery connects to, so this part in theory could have additional features added to it. The battery is on the back of the headstrap instead of being in the compute module, acting as a counterbalance to make it more comfortable, while also reducing the weight on your face. The controllers should also get special attention, as they are the only VR controllers I know of that have every button a standard gaming controller has, letting you easily play any game in your steam library without needing another peripheral to do so. It also has a proprietary pcie port in the front of the compute module that will be intended for things like color passthrough cameras, face tracking, and who knows what else lol. There actually is already a third party color passthrough camera, solving the one real advantage I’d say the Quest 3 has.

As for the software side, it runs Steam OS on ARM thanks to a translation layer called Fex, which means this headset is a full linux PC on ARM that can run x86 apps on it. They also have Lepton, which is a translation layer for android apps. These two layers are massive deals for VR because it covers what would have been weaknesses for the Steam Frame otherwise. Most PCVR games run on x86, so Fex closes that gap and raises the amount of games that run on standalone. For Lepton though, this was a smart move because what doesn’t run on x86 almost certainly is running on android because Meta’s headset is running a modified version of android. This will massively boost compatibility with all VR games and make porting for devs drastically easier. Fex also means flat screen games can run on the headset itself, which in my experience playing flat screen in VR is one of the best ways to play. You get a resizeable screen and resolution options that normally cost a ton of money to use otherwise. Ultrawide visuals become accessible without a special monitor, you can make the screen massive for a theater experience, and you can even throw in 3D mods and shaders to make games display in 3D and provide a level of immersion I can’t find anywhere else.

The last piece to mention for the Frame is the wireless dongle. If you have a PC with better performance than the headset, you can connect the dongle to your PC and play those games using your PC hardware instead. While this could introduce lag or stutter, I can say from using a 5G router with the Quest 3 and no dedicated dongle, wireless PCVR is still a great experience and very worth the time. The frame dongle should reduce lag and stutter a lot compared to my setup due to being a dedicated connection as well as being 6G instead.

So to answer your question, VR is in a pretty good state overall, the potential is there but it still is finding its footing. If you want a cheaper barrier to entry, the Quest 3 or 3S will be a decent way to experience it, even if it is meta. If you want to be on the ground floor of the future of VR though, the Steam Frame seems like its going to be the beginning of that transition into a new era. Pricey, yeah, but for the price you get a lot more out of it than most headsets of similar pricing.

From what I’ve seen, hitting it with another masterlock will do the trick lol

Blizzard is apparently their top earner, even more than Activision, so I would hope ms isn’t stupid enough to shutter them

Thats how I know who not to follow anymore, and it was an effective strategy until their garbage algorithms showed up.

Social media used to be about the social aspect. Now its about content and exposure. Its the whole reason its shit now

This will be very exciting news for the currently deployed military folks stranded at sea, I’m sure they will be very happy about this /s

Thats what I mean though, she’s a whackadoo with potential sway over the leadership of the US, and has had that position since the first term. Mainstream media are supposed to be journalists, investigating and exposing the truth for the world to see. They all have privileged access to those in power, a front line view of the corruption as it unfolds, and they just ignored this lady the entire fucking time.

It exposes just how toothless and incompetent they are. I know a lot of us on here have known this for a long time, its not a surprise for us, but I guess I just hope that maybe the public might be able to make these connections themselves now that the info is exposed. I know thats probably a pipe dream, but gotta find hope somewhere these days.

Incredible that some politician had to mentioned her name and now suddenly journalists become journalists.

She’s been there before Trump and somehow the entirety of mainstream media just ignored her until this past month.

I would hope this would cause people to never trust these overpaid clowns again, but I know how stupid people are.

Not that I think he had much in the way of empathy prior to this, but he lacks a filter of any kind which is a symptom I had to repeatedly apologize for when my grandfather’s dementia got worse.

The dude has full on dementia, no one is doing anything and he will continue to degrade both himself and the reputation of anything associated with him as this keeps going.

Funnily enough, dipshit donny might be the best publically perceivable evidence of the need for reform we will ever get.

Most of these have been tried and we now have a new Gestapo rounding up minorities and letting them die in detention camps, while the rich bid on how they will redesign Gaza once the genocide is complete.

Nonviolent action has not stopped this regime, but one assassinated CEO has rippled changes in healthcare and made the epstein class scared. While I do advocate for nonviolence first, we are well beyond the point where violence isn’t reciprocal

Realistically need a better solution for refunds, especially for indie devs. 2 hours just isn’t enough time for shitty games to reveal themselves sometimes, but its also more time than some absolute gems take to beat.

People mentioned achievements, but thats unreliable as even I can spoof achievements on steam last I checked.

Valve can’t be expected to manage every refund request thoroughly, and devs can’t exactly be trusted to respect those requests if they were in charge of them being its literally losing money, but theres gotta be some way to reliably refund a customer without it being abused to harm an innocent dev.

Kaos for me. Will be pissed about that show being cancelled until I fucking die

Until linux eclipses it, which its not far from doing. My gaming rig is the only windows device purely because of compatibility, but I’ll be moving platforms the moment linux gets like 95% compatibility

Ah yes, hire people right after laying a ton of people off, including those with cancer.

Tim Sweeney has got to be one of the worst business people I’ve seen, but unfortunately hes a good hype man and thats 99% of running a business these days

At this point, this is just the MS gaming pipeline.

Hilarious to hear Nadella whine about Xbox performance when he is directly responsible for it going to shit. 30% mandatory profit margins was a death sentence

GUI is definitely a big reason, but features as well. Epic could make their store snappy as hell and their GUI easier to use, but that doesn’t give us controller remapping, game recording, an overlay with a web browser, per game notes, per game news, community guides, baked in mod support, performance data overlay, controller centric mode (big screen mode), and god knows theres more I’m missing.

Personally, I’d put my money on GOG becoming the real competitor over time. GoG Galaxy feels absolutely better than Epic does, and the fact it integrates other storefronts is such a major benefit that it makes it at least capable of competing with steam in the long haul. If GoG Galaxy gained all the features Playnite has, it would easily be able to compete with Steam.

Steam’s “monopoly” is purely because none of their competitors bother with pro consumer updates.

I smell future competition

My money is on Ikea acquiring the leftovers to easily set up new locations lol