so valve has released the steam Hardware survey upon the world they've given a
way for us Hardware enthusiasts to weigh and measure ourselves to see if we are
actually worthy of VR and it's left some
of us kind of wanting how it runs this
test is it does the portal VR demo where it just expands a little machine and you
have to try to look at it and whatnot but just has a static camera that moves
around when it's done it will serve you your results whether or not you are
ready capable or not
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link in the video description so yeah it's spoiler alert
not that good looking only 99.4% of
people have actually made it through if you look down below that it
will tell you the results the results will tell you how to upgrade your system
in order to become ready if you expand lower than that it will tell you how
many frames were encoded how many frames were above 90 FPS which is extremely
important considering VR screens are usually 90 HZ plus we'll tell you how
many frames were dropped by your CPU and the average Fidelity of the scene or the
graphical quality that it was able to accomplish while running through the
entire scene so yeah 99.4% of people
slightly lower than that already based on the steam Hardware survey so get
wrecked I guess we've been saying this for a long time online of te tips the
hardware Community is not actually up there enough for VR people complain
about the cost of headsets but their computers aren't even ready but let's
take a sec and actually analyze where those numbers came from the steam
Hardware survey is it up to
Snuff the steam Hardware survey is a
simple but very powerful tool you submit
your data to valve they total it put percentages of how many people are
running what on it and make it publicly available great tons of people use it we
at lineus Media Group use it we use it to quantify how many people are going
for what card what chip what brand whatever and then discuss that in videos
or the W show from time to time it's a pretty interesting concept and I we will
continue to do that in the future another group of people that uses it
game devs they use it to Target what Hardware they need to prepare game for
is it a very high-end very high fidelity
game well they probably need to Target whatever the highest percentage of
high-end cards are that kind of makes sense it's a relatively simple concept
but does it make sense for VR does the hardware survey actually apply properly
to VR I would argue no because there's too much garbage data what is garbage
data well I for one fall in this category I have probably about seven
computers in the steam Hardware survey but probably one of them
actually exactly one of them is only intended for VR none of the other ones
will ever probably do anything in the VR space they're there to play stuff like
papers pleas or Minecraft or counter- striker Team Fortress and those rigs
should not be in a percentage system in order to figure out the amount of
computers ready for VR I understand that's not what the steam Hardware survey is but that's where the 9.4% came
from and people have been saying for a long time including me that the
community isn't ready
to get an accurate representation of the gaming community's Readiness for VR you
need a lot of data to get a lot of this data you need a lot of people and you
need a lot of Hardware I'm only one man so I don't fix that category but I do
have a bunch of Hardware there's a problem there as well though I have a
bunch of bleeding edge current generation Hardware I don't have the
interesting bits like the I5 2500 in the
GTX 680 which sold a bunch and might
actually still be able to skim buy into that ready category that's interesting I
want to figure out what is just going to be able to make it here we specialize on
things like $30,000 computers and computers that fit into bombs they're
fun but they don't really matter a ton
in this data set I don't need to reaffirm that really expensive really
overbuilt modern current generation gaming Hardware is able to run VR we get
that it's the more interesting data that I'm looking
for this is where you come in we need the community to come together and make
a massively collaborative benchmarking project so we can see where the
Enthusiast Community is sitting in terms of VR performance we can do this on the
Forum the line of SE tips Community Forum jumper 118 has already done
something similar with cinebench he has an awesome thread with over 500
submissions of people cinebench scores that's super cool I've used those
results in videos in the past before and I'm not looking to sell this data before
anyone of the comments freaks out this is all publicly available stuff we're
not selling it I just want to host online at se.com forum CU it's easy so
yeah please submit your test results there we can see how our community is
ready for VR because I'm pretty sure it's higher than 99.4% so don't worry if
you have a low-end rig if you're running multiple cards whatever it happens to be
if you're remotely interested in VR or high-end gaming at all submit your rig
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