Comment by LoganDark
14 hours ago
I've been pissed that using up the expansion port for passthrough means you don't have an expansion port anymore. It's such a missed opportunity.
Seems nobody has realized this or nobody cares. I haven't seen anyone else notice or mention it.
> The Steam Frame is squarely targeted as a pure gaming device
It's technically also supposed to be a Linux PC, and there are some (not many) productivity features.
In any case, I'd prefer to be able to at least read notifications instead of having to take the headset off every time I get a message or an e-mail or whatever.
For Android devices you can mirror them into the frame without much fuss
https://github.com/bangfireball/Phonecast_VR
I view my notifications on my Mac... My phone won't even unlock with the headset on (one reason I hate face ID)
Forwarding notifications from a Mac sounds like a problem that somebody will solve, I do agree about FaceID though. I "downgraded" from an iPad Pro to an iPad Air and it's been great to have TouchID instead.
The expansion port docs seem to imply you can have two passthrough cameras and a pcie gen4 lane at the same time, so a designer could probably allow a passthrough
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamFrame/-/blob... (page 9, "supported configurations")