No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

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    10 hours ago

    legit and works well

    legit works well… but also not a magic wand. It doesn’t transform a low-end rig in a powerful machine.

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      10 hours ago

      Valve has only made mention of streaming bandwidth, nothing about the game being rendered (like how PSVR2 does it). As it stands it won’t do anything for the GPU performance.
      Maybe there’s some sort of API games will be able to hook into, I seriously hope so.

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        They showed a special build of Alyx rendering only what the player is looking at. I guess they didn’t focus on foveated rendering because it’s

        1. Expected to work either way.
        2. Needs support from the game.

        Foveated streaming will work with all games.