Steam Deck + AR/VR glasses

[WanderingFreely]

Anyone go completely mobile with their gaming. I see where the deck plus a good size TV could be a nice gaming experience but again that ties me down as much as the laptop I currently game on. SO would not buy a steam deck for that. Maybe like In used to lug a gameboy type controller around years ago and it is a bit more mobile then laptop.

Was looking a the new AR glasses that are coming out and was wondering if anyone has paired one and which ones with the Steam Deck or if Steam themselves have some recommended hardware compatibility recommendations. Would rather go with the ones that look like real glasses versus the VR device that steam was selling (not even sure if it's compatibility). Think travel like sitting on plane or airport etc type usage. The least bulky the solution.

I guess I am asking are we there yet technology wise? Does steam support it?

[yokoshlomo]

The power of the steam deck might be sufficient to provide an video output on AR/VR, for some you might need a dock for the needed cables....but I doubt that it will reach framerates that you definitely would want.....

Some "flatscreen games" work fine on 60fps, a lot of them work on 30fps....but what you want to achieve in VR is at least 90-120Hz.

So no, I highly doubt it.

[Jcee]

Honestly for some 60fps vr is fine... for others they get headaches if its under 90, some its just a bit annoying, but can be ignored

[Mahjik]

Steam Deck can use glasses like the Nreal glasses:

https://youtu.be/ZLVJvlja3FM?si=Nj6OtMW_Rgzukbt5

[WanderingFreely]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

Steam Deck can use glasses like the Nreal glasses:

https://youtu.be/ZLVJvlja3FM?si=Nj6OtMW_Rgzukbt5

Mahjik, Interesting I was curious as I was looking at the nreal glasses already and this guy was showing they did work together. This was a very useful answer thank you. I mean it'll be close to 1K (deck, dock, and glasses) setup. But now I know more. Until he got to this device I was basically thinking tech was not there yet.

He listed off a few cons one of which is global availability but I knew that already. The sound con and the occasional post processing lag surprised me a bit, but like he says new tech firmware upgrades either on the deck or the glasses will hopefully fix. But seems that today there is only one possible solution.

This now makes the deck a possible consideration to purchase. As I am not for the 'gameboy' style experience to pull around a screen that is little bigger then cell phone to play games on but linked to a set of glasses like this even if not perfected yet. Not it's a solid consideration. And Yes I know I dated myself with then gameboy comment, not sure what the modern competing consoles are these days :)

[Haruspex]

I've been eyeing those NReal XReal glasses pretty hard for a bit now.