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The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

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VR is the most expensive toy you will use for a couple of hours before getting bored of it.

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I play my index every week. I’m still not bored.

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My 200 hour playthrough of Skyrim VR back in 2019 justified my headset purchase and GPU upgrade (gtx 1080, oooh, aaah) all by itself.

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Is your stomach made of Iron?

So much nausea last time I tried. Every single step is a head bob… WHY?

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Well, like any decent VR game there are settings to help with that. I’m pretty sure I used the teleportation movement the whole time even once I was used to it and didn’t get nauseated.

Getting used to it was a huge factor on its own. Back then, I had been playing so much VR that in the flying game Ultrawings (think pilotwings for VR) I worked my way up to where I was flying the stunt plane with full FOV and no anti-nausea measures enabled.

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Yeah I don’t get nauseous in VR I don’t know why some people do. The only thing I have noticed is that if there’s a lot of spinning around particularly in ultra wings I tend to fall over.

I actually find that things like the vignette that you get when moving in some VR games actually makes me feel uncomfortable so I always have to go into the settings and turn all that stuff off.

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You could say that about any game. If you’re not interested in the game you’re not going to play it for a very long time but that’s not a failing of the concept.

Pavlov is a VR game that I’ve probably got hundreds of hours in. I’ve had four or five gaming sessions because you tend to get sucked in.

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I’ve already had a headset for years, and it’s incredible. You don’t know what you’re talking g about.

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I just checked and I’ve gotten over 100 hours out of mine so far.

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Depends on what kind of person you are. I know of individuals who practically live in VR.

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I guess that’s fair.

I found most VR games I tried to be shallow experiences. Resident Evil was cool but it made me feel motion sickness after about 30 minutes.

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I’ll probably use VR mostly to play sims. Elite Dangerous, X4, I also have a few racing sims.

But ultimately depends on the price. I’m not going to sell my organs for what is essentially a really cool immersive gimmick.

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Racing sims are 11/10 in VR. Any cockpit game really. No going back for me.

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House of the Dying Sun is a space sim with a strategic map view in addition to piloting a fighter yourself.

It is so good in VR.

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It’s much better for games that were designed around VR in mind.

Some of my personal favorite recommendations:

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  • I Expect you to Die (trilogy)
  • Half Life Alyx
  • The Myst and Riven remakes
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Elite Dangerous is phenomenal in VR. Same for Star Wars: Squadrons. But I’m a big space sim fan.

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Half life alyx was a solid game and I would expect valve to release another VR game for this things release. Even if not, there’s good stuff out nowadays.

Although I don’t get the motion sickness that people have mentioned so maybe I have more options.

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