When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve\u2019s new Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; thanks to the Frame\u2019s dedicated wireless adapter and a cool trick Valve calls \u201cfoveated streaming,\u201d I didn\u2019t detect any latency as I explored an industrial building and fought some head crabs.<\/p>\n
But the Frame also has an Arm chip inside, meaning it can run games locally. While I didn\u2019t get to test playing Half-Life: Alyx that way, based on comments Valve gave to other publications, it seems like Valve is optimistic that it might be able to make the game run well when played standalone.<\/p>\n
\u201cHalf-Life: Alyx is a great experience when streamed from a PC to Steam Frame, and we are looking into making it a good standalone experience as well,\u201d Valve told Digital Foundry<\/a>. And according to UploadVR<\/a>, \u201cValve representatives think they can get Half-Life: Alyx running performant in standalone, but they\u2019re not promising it yet and it\u2019s clear there\u2019s still a lot for them to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Fingers crossed Valve finds a way to make it happen. I\u2019ve actually never played Half-Life: Alyx, and if I get a Steam Frame, I\u2019d definitely want to try playing it standalone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve\u2019s new Steam Frame VR headset, I was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[77,1583,12,3282,326,53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-568604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pc-gaming","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-virtual-reality","17":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115544933193807182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}