I'm one of the first backers from the *first* kickstarter campaign, wich then failed. then i continued to support them on the second one.
Back then the smackz was intended to be much less poweful, and much cheaper.

If they really succed i should get this final version for just a little more of 250$, wich is absolutley great. .... but actually that was the price i would pay for this. Maybe a little more, but surely i would never pre-order one at the current price.

That's the problem. They evolved their hardware, but they have also doubled the price, and i'm not really sure that was a good idea.

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Quoting: KuduzkehpanThis will fail twice price too high and League of legends, gta5 and many others only works under windows not linux.
Also there are much more better devices for mobile pc.

The Smachz can run Windows too. And LoL works quite well under wine, if you want to stay on Linux.
Gta5 can run on Wine too, but the performance is far from acceptable, sadly.

Anyway, you said there are better devices... For example?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Doc AngeloThe Witcher 3 ... on a handheld for 900 bucks.

Do you think Wine will have decent performance there?

Of course it will be unplayable. It can barely run it on windows, and TW3 on Linux still has lot of problems even on high end PCs.

Quoting: Doc AngeloThe Witcher 3 and Alien Isolation on a handheld for 900 bucks. This is ridiculous. Just as the logo and sound logo is.

Of course it runs at low-medium sopec and at pretty low resolution, but the screen is also pretty small, it should be still enjoyable.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Doc AngeloThe Witcher 3 ... on a handheld for 900 bucks.

Do you think Wine will have decent performance there?

Of course it will be unplayable. It can barely run it on windows, and TW3 on Linux still has lot of problems even on high end PCs.

Quoting: Adamfx990I'm not too sure about them making their own distro though. Steam OS is still the worst distro I've ever used and that was done by Valve ffs. Unless it turns out to just be debian with the necessary non-free software/proprietary drivers ready installed. But even if that's the case, I feel like not identifying the underlying distro throws some unnecessary ambiguity (and therefore doubt as to the quality of the implementation) in to the mix. :/

Theit OS will most likely be just a modified Debian (or ubuntu, maybe), with steam and some drivers pre-installed.

Actually, SteamOS is just a modified Debian too.

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Quoting: ElvanexHonestly, this would be much more appealing if it had cellular connectivity...

Actually, there is.

there are 2 different version. the base one has got wifi only, while the more expensive version has 4g connectivity too.

...But it's pretty expensive. Probably is just a better idea to make a wifi hotspot using your mobile phone.

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They replied some hours ago on twitter, seems like they fixed it, and they are releasing a patch after some more tests.
Yay!

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Quoting: pete910Hoping to see AMD's CPU share increase.

It probably will. Ryzen and AM4 motherboards are selling so much that many models have been sold out for months all around Europe.

I switched to a 1700x too. And it's great :D

Quoting: tmtvlSame, but GPU (for the OSS driver).

Well, to see a gpu increase we'll probably need to wait Vega's launch

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Well, currently most of the VR games on steam are indies made on Unity or Unreal Engine 4, so it will probably be quite easy to port them on Linux if SteamVR will support it.
Serious Sam VR is based on Serious Sam 3 engine, wich already supports Linux, and it's probably already done.

If the driver support will be good enough, linux could easly become a perfect vr system.

Can't wait to try the HTC Vive on ArchLinux.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy. . . Actually, there is one type of game I might like to see in VR. VR would allow combat games where you're directly "fighting" with life-sized virtual opponents--you parry by parrying, strike by striking, dodge by dodgring, basically spar almost realistically. That would be cool, and good exercise too.

Well... Actually quite all the Htc vive games supporting PVP combat are already working like this.

They are almost all shooters, but there is some swordfighting game. Or even some where you can use both.
Search for "Raw Data", for example.

You can move either by pointing the floor and "teleporting" or walking in real life, you can parry and dodge by moving your body, and weapons will follow your movement.
Characters are also sized based on player's height (...but you can cheat a bit on this one :P)

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Quoting: GuestThe problem with VR is that most of the games are just "tests" and "minigames". I'm not buying a 900€ gadget if i cannot play big games like Rocket League, Skyrim/Fallout, Tomb Raider, XCOM... That's the thing.

Well, you can... there are some projects wich allow you to play normal pc games on vr, like Vireio Perception and Vorpx.

Playng Tomb Raider or Xcom doesn't really makes sense, but it's possible for the other games you wrote.

Never tried on Rocket League (i'm pretty sure it works), but playing Skyrim or Fallout in VR is actually pretty good.

But yeah, that's still totally compleatly different compared to a true vr game.

...And... in many games, even if it's technically possible to play in vr, it doesn' mean it will be a good experience.
For example, trying to play Counter Strike in VR is one of the worst idea i ever had :V

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Just to say... Serious Sam VR is more a sort of experiment than an actual game.
Yes, i tried it, and yes, it's really funny to play, but there are way better games on the Vive.

Still an impressive job, anyway. And it's the first Early Access day, so it's probably too early to judge.

I can't wait to try it out on Linux as soon as Valve makes it possible.

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