I posted earlier about initial impressions and how VR streaming wasn't working on Fedora but I did finally get that working so I figured I'd post an update.

Last week I had installed some codecs that were recommended to me by a user in the other thread but that only got the "pancake" game streaming working. After installing all of the codecs for AMD here, the VR streaming started to work: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryHowto%5Cb%29

I'm not sure what specific ones fixed it, but I switched to full ffmpeg, installed the additional codecs, and did everything in the "Hardware codecs with AMD" section. I've seen some other troubleshooting tips that say to add an ENV variable to the launcher, but I didn't have to do that.

After a reboot it worked without any problems (don't forget to pair the wifi dongle from the headset).

Non-VR game streaming is just about perfect. I didn't notice any lag when playing Hollow Knight: Silksong nor was there any stuttering. However, VR streaming still needs some work. I loaded up Half-Life: Alyx and successfully streamed to my headset, but it stuttered quite a bit and often dropped the video for a few seconds. When streaming from Windows on the same PC it worked much better but did still occasionally drop. My play area is in the same room as the PC so I doubt it's a distance thing.

You'll definitely want to use the SteamOS and SteamVR betas to try this, but it does feel like I'll be able to finally get rid of my Windows partition soon.

Got my Steam Frame yesterday and had a chance to play with it a bit. Figured I'd leave some details here since I haven't seen much.

Some background: My last headset was the OG Vive with Index Controllers. I've never used another headset other than a Quest 3 at a museum exhibit for a few minutes. So for me, the jump in quality is huge, but if you've kept up with the hardware it might not be.

So far, I'm really enjoying the Frame though it's not without issues. The headset is really comfortable and the initial setup was mostly pretty smooth. I did run into a bug where the keyboard input just stopped working while I was entering my wi-fi password, but a reboot fixed that.

I haven't been able to get streaming working (more on that later), but installing games on the headset worked well. I played Eleven Table Tennis (supported) and Maestro (not supported, but works) without any real issues. Neither of those games requires moving around the room so it was nice to be able to stand in the living room and just set my location instantly to start playing. No full room setup like the Vive so I'll definitely be using this more often. I've seen some complaints about the passthrough camera, but it worked great for me. I can't read text in that mode, but I was able to walk around the house without bumping into stuff just fine.

The streaming was the only real problem I had. I run Fedora 44 and was able to get the Frame to connect using the wifi dongle and give me the option to stream from my computer, but it would always fail. If you don't have SteamVR running on the host PC it just fails silently, but when I had it running I would get an error about video compression not being supported by my graphics card. I have a RX 9079XT so I doubt that's actually the problem, however I still haven't been able to figure out what I need to install to get it working. If I manage to fix it, I'll report back.

I got about an hour and a half of gameplay before the battery died on my but I expect that to be a bit better when streaming. You can play while plugged into power but the power supply that you can buy from valve doesn't have a super long cord.

Happy to answer any questions if you have them. I'm overall satisfied with the purchase and hope to see some software updates to fix the issues I did run into.

When you share a YouTube video using the share button it adds “si=some_unique_code” to the URL. If you don’t remove that it shows your personal account to anyone who receives it so that they can chat directly with you. For a lot of people this is their real name.

I’ve seen it all over Lemmy so I figured I’d mention it here! You only need the stuff before the question mark in the URL to let others see the video.

This can also be turned off in your YouTube settings under the privacy section. The setting is “channel visibility for shared links”. It will still add the si code for tracking though.

The move comes nearly a year after Board of Aldermen President Megan Green sued over the state takeover of the police department.

This is an older video, but I really enjoyed Rollerblade's 80mm series and figured I share this one to get this community going!

If you enjoy this one you'll probably enjoy the rest of the series:

• Madrid
• Amsterdam
• Iceland
• Los Angeles
• Rio de Janeiro
• Capetown

The conditional use hearing is this Thursday at 8:30 am and allows for comments over Zoom. Meeting information with Zoom link and password