I would simply giggle myself to sleep if the Texas maps got overturned but the California maps stick because of how each were handled.

Really? Hadn't tried that yet. That's a shame.

The Quest controllers feel a bit better in the hand to me, and the Galaxy XR triggers and buttons don't feel quite as nice, but they'd be great for most existing games. Shame that they're so expensive most users will never get them.

I got the prescription inserts and really like them!

I found my glasses don't fit in the headband. (They are fairly wide.) If your glasses were smaller they could probably fit with one of the larger forehead spacers, but Samsung does warn that may affect the eye tracking.

Amusingly janky! UPS said delivery was between 9 and 11. Gave me a link to track the truck. At 10:30 it was across the street! Then the truck drove away and 5 minutes later I got an email saying "Your package will be late. No idea when." Delivered at 3:00. 😆 Logistics is hard.

Now that I can compare with the shipped device I can see that the WebXR input profiles asset for the controllers I prepared earlier is offset a bit. I'll get that fixed sometime this week.

Almost certainly lawyers from company X saying "*all* company X products *must* display our standard privacy policy" and the app devs responding "But... It's literally just a stop watch" and losing that fight. 🙄

"I bet that blue key would open the blue door."

Shut up. You see this fire hydrant? This is custom built to match the environment! This represents a day (or more!) of some artist's life. Allow me to admire it for a bit, okay?

(Proceeds to smack it with a bat to see if it's part of the physics sim)

After originally saying I'd get them Nov 3rd, then Nov 6th, then *Jan 8th*, now apparently my Galaxy XR controllers have shipped and will get to me Monday? 🤨

Haven't seen any OS captured, I recall hearing at least one reporter say they saw a very Steam-Deck-like UI. Upload VR said they used Chrome with it in a Linux mode. Also saw a comment from Valve saying they want to make it easy to pull up a browser any time. No mention of WebXR.

Given the current implementation state, and the fact that it is an ARM device, I suspect that the WebXR backend for Android (used by Galaxy XR) will be the easiest/fastest route for Chrome.

In www.uploadvr.com/valve-steam-... they mention using Chrome in the Linux desktop. The headset also apparently runs Android APKs? So I'm sure there's going to be multiple routes to run Chrome, WebXR is an unknown. Given that it's OpenXR-based, though, I think it wouldn't be too hard?

Not necessarily? It's definitely not aiming for the highest end hardware (ie: Not trying to compete with Apple Vision Pro), and it's sidestepping a few things that were becoming standard to focus on their stated "streaming first" use case. It'll be interesting to see how that works for them.

Specific things that stand out to me:

- Monochrome passthrough
- No hand tracking
- Eye tracking but not face tracking
- Controller layout to match gamepads, not other headsets
- Quest 3-like LCD screen