Valve Frame (Deckard): Findings about the new Valve Index 2

[chiliwili69]

It seems that in the last days the initial rumours has been consolidated more and more by that guy (Brad Lynch).

 

Yesterday MRTV had him in the show and they were talking about several potential features of this new headset.  It is the last part of the video below.

 

- 4Kx4K per eye with OLED microdisplays

- Thin varifocal lenses using liquid crystal layers

- Potential Inside-out tracking

- Potential standalone option (making an upgradable headset)

 

According to Brad this new headset could be release in the next 6 months.

 

 

 

Edited September 12 by chiliwili69

[chiliwili69]

I am still amazed by this Brad guy, he seems to know everything about what Valve is doing.

 

The concept of having 4 different headstrap design with one common superheadset is really clever! It will be an upgradable headset based in the individual needs !! (Standalone compute unit, wireless, basic, AR).

 

 

[Varibraun]

On 10/3/2021 at 7:47 AM, chiliwili69 said:

I am still amazed by this Brad guy, he seems to know everything about what Valve is doing.

 

Yes, thanks for posting...I have been watching his videos over the past few weeks too.  I hate to get my hopes up, but I really hope he is correct in putting all these patents and code puzzle pieces together.  If so, it appears Valve has something awesome on the near horizon for us.  Has @SCG_Fenris_Wolf commented on this anywhere yet?

[chiliwili69]

An interesting video about potential standalone & PCVR combo.

Came on Valve!!  WE WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING OFFICIAL NOW!!

 

[dburne]

Well as Meta's goal is more about the collection of and selling of user data, it would be nice to see a serious competitor like Valve do something like this for the gamers. Still seems nothing official though.

[chiliwili69]

some more info about the Deckard, I hope they will release this year but who knows...

 

 

[Dagwoodyt]

Deckard YouTube vids are all clickbait. The VR YouTubers are in desperate need of content.

[simfan2015]

Deckart is only interesting if it will be sold everywhere. In the US no problem, but World-wide??? 

We may get the issue like with the pico 4... Unavailable in the US. 

The Deckart hopefully not the other way around. 

It is no surprise the Meta quest 2 is the most succesfull.. at least it can be bought everywhere! 

[dburne]

Re: Valve - seems to continue to be just click bait with no factual evidence.

[chiliwili69]

3.5 years after initial rumours still more rumours... I hope this time will be true....

 

https://www.roadtovr.com/valve-deckard-report-release-date-price-leak/

[Charlo-VR]

Woo hoo, looking forward to flying Star Citizen in VR while sitting in my Yaw 3 with the Deckard!

[Aapje]

I doubt that it will be a great headset for us. Having PCVR built into the headset will mean that it is ahead of smartphone-based standalone games, but behind pairing a headset with a strong PC. So it's probably too weak for high quality flight simming, but you will pay for that advanced standalone capability that you won't use.

[chiliwili69]

4 hours ago, Aapje said:

Having PCVR built into the headset will mean that it is ahead of smartphone-based standalone games, but behind pairing a headset with a strong PC. So it's probably too weak for high quality flight simming, but you will pay for that advanced standalone capability that you won't use

 

Yes, we will pay for a kind of Steamdeck inside the headset, this is totally different from the Index which is a just a wired true PCVR headset.

 

I am also paying an extra (in cash when buying the Quest3 and in soul and data after it) for the XR2 chip and batery.

 

Ideally Valve could produce a version of the Deckard for people who will need the PC (flight sim, etc), putting as optional the computing unit and batery... But I am just dreaming.

[chiliwili69]

Looks like the panels are LCD 2160x2160, same resolution than G2. For most of Steam games it is enough, but not for sims!

At least, I hope they will give us a good HFOV and VFOV

 

 

Edited March 21 by chiliwili69

[Aapje]

That's a slightly higher resolution than a Quest 3, so in itself it is perfectly usable for simming, if the lenses are as good as the Quest 3 lenses. But as I said before, I think that the price/performance won't be great for simming, since that is not what they are targeting.

 

Note that Bradley warns us that these are just the specs of the proof of concept and not necessarily the final specs.

[chiliwili69]

The rumours say it will release for this year 2025...