Steam Frame is Getting a Color Passthrough Camera Upgrade Add-on (roadtovr.com)

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Steam Frame isn’t here yet, and we’re no closer to knowing the price or release date, although the component supplier behind the headset’s built-in camera tracking system is officially producing a color passthrough module for Frame.

Steam Frame only includes monochrome passthrough, which the headset primarily uses for computer vision tracking in addition to letting the user to check their surroundings, albeit in a less immersive way than with a full color sensor.

Komodo Station, Valve’s hardware vendor in Asia, appears to have published a product page a little too early showing off an official color passthrough module for Frame, which is built by Arcturus Industries, the third-party computer vision specialists behind Steam Frame’s camera tracking system.

According to the leaked page captured by Reddit user ‘gogodboss’ (seen below), the official Arcturus Vision Camera for Steam Frame will include dual 32 megapixel sensors, 10 bit HDR capture, and a 64mm interpupillary distance (IPD).

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[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago

Ahh, the Steam Frame, the HL3 of hardware.

[-] gwheel@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

HDR capture? I don't think anything has suggested the frame would have HDR displays

[-] Hond@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Greater dynamic range for the sensors could still be beneficial in high contrast scenes. A window with sunlight outside maybe can still show some overbrightend details and not just completly overblown white.

[-] gwheel@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

That makes sense, but I'll keep pretending it means an OLED frame is still in the cards

[-] G0ldenSp00n@lemmy.jacaranda.club 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Likely just for future headsets that do support it, that way all your old captures are high quality.

[-] robear@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Komodo station is such a fucking joke of a company. No idea why we're stuck dealing with them in Asia.

Asian logistics have been made so easy in the last 10 years, Valve could do it themselves and not lose a cut. They don't even offer post sales support for the products in local languages so I really have no idea what valve is getting out of the middleman.

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I want to be exciting for this, but after playing through HL:A and the other good. r games on Steam, Moss etc., and playing a bunch of Elite: Dangerous during Covid, I can’t find a use for my Index. I have the base stations mounted, but I just never really break out the headset for anything.

I’m moving soon and will have a larger space for room scale, maybe that will get me using it more? Idk. It’s hard to justify the cost when there aren’t really any continuous games to play on it. I have RIGS for my PSVR1, I want a game like that on PC ffs. Or the Gundam Pod arcade game in Japan, but for VR.

[+] redbrick@lemmy.world -6 points 1 week ago

Oh man...where my quest 3??? ...somewhere buried back in the closet. VR is neat, but that heavy ass thingy hanging on my face? No thanks! A nice 57" monitor will do better all day long.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Why would you want to attach a fifty-seven inch monitor to your face? That sounds painful...

[-] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

But you can't beat the IMMERSION

[-] RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Oh man oh jeez watch out @redbrick@lemmy.world doesn't like VR oh man hot take they can't imagine using one oh no oh shit frick

[-] redbrick@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Where did I say I didn't like VR? (Shitposter...)

[-] terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

why go to a virtual reality community to bash vr. thats like going to a cat community to say dogs are better. what's the point? just to troll? just to add negativity? no one is forcing you to use vr, do why walk in to a room of people enjoying it and try and sour their fun?

[-] redbrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If you actually read my post, you'd understand that my issue with the quest is the weight, which is a very widely known problem with VR headsets. Many companies are trying to fix that. You are reading negativity in my post because that's what you want to focus on. You can either sit around, and cry that someone came and took a dump on you, or try to find a solution to the problem. The OP shares a developing solution to a problem that I personally don't see as a primary issue with VR. Did you not catch it still? I said VR is neat...feel better?

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