HTC, Bigscreen, Shiftall, Tundra, I struggle to think of a PC VR vendor who has NOT at least made sure to throw a bone to the largest VR app's audience.

It is the one PCVR success story for user aquisition this side of the pandemic!

It takes a real capacity for stupidity to be a video games marketplace, make a PC to play games using, and then accidentally create your aunt's next desktop computer. A Mac Mini alternative without being stuck on OSX is a fantastic idea.

E.g.
Higher population density in Tottenham = more buses in Tottenham.
Density stalls, people move out to Chesunt and buy a car = buses trapped behind single-driver cars on the A1010
Buses unreliable = density discouraged = people move out to Chesunt and buy a car...

The problem ends up being that when the government creates an environment that encourages high land usage, which they currently do (no land value tax, insufficient penalties on car usage, etc) it's fighting against the market if it tries to improve density. The market conditions need to change.

A tracker extension module for the front and a replacement strap with actual monitors or a 3.5mm jack are all I'd want, but until those exist, this is a 100% lemon bit of kit for me, and I have a _lot_ of VR hours.

Yeah. To me the only thing that matters is that Base Station 2.0s are still manufactured/sold by someone, because losing room-scale tracking of arbitrary objects would suck.

It sucks that once Valve withdraws the Index the price of a Base Station goes from £140->£220 tho.

Theoretically. If the cameras are infrared, theres a low chance they could detect lighthouse lasers...

Grungy 3D-printed extension in June, glossy HTC promo video for their extension by Christmas. Given they now are the manufacturers of Lighthouses...

Cycle of grief complete from me; I look forward to the "I made the Frame work with base stations" Youtube video by, like, June. It's a Linux computer. The point of trackers is to be device-agnostic. Getting a face computer to track itself via Lighthouses instead of SLAM does not seem impossible.

As is Shiftall, presumably

Aside, I do understand why HL3 would be tied in (because I'd be surprised if the folks at Valve who wanted to make it could get the project pitched internally without being able to bolt it on to the Frame) but it's not the best IP Valve have. Portal would be perfect and has more modern relevance.

I would expect it to be the other way around, you announce the Frame, then next week you announce HL3, the pack-in game for the Frame that supports both immersive and flatscreen modes, and Frame owners get the game before general release.

Spectral Blade
Improved Spectral Blade

A game notorious for being the product of a single dev laser-focussed on servicing a niche market with the best damn cozy farm lifestyle game they could make is politically rooted in Japanese farmers specializing in matcha and Wagyu beef. Same economic logic.

Fun fact: the Story Of Seasons (nee Harvest Moon) franchise, and ergo Stardew Valley, call back to the Japanese trend toward encouraging local quality produce production in the wake of being outcompeted by the US in farming after globalization in the 80s.