A VR gaming PC, able to satisfyingly run 60% of the current most popular competitive online multiplayer games (as of release), that's intended to be worn, EG, like (or inside of) a backpack, or a toolbelt, at the waist, or where (regretably, as original resolution criteria really failed to rule this out, we must also allow for) the headset itself is competent enough.
Update 2025-11-12 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The requirement that the device "run 60% of the current most popular competitive online multiplayer games" is interpreted as requiring it to run the latest competitive multiplayer games at the time of release (not older/legacy games).
Update 2025-11-12 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The market will not resolve immediately upon announcement of hardware. Resolution depends on:
Practical performance of games in actual use
Whether games' anti-cheat systems support Linux on the hardware
Whether games can gracefully downspec graphics to work in standalone mode
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@makoyass Yeah I feel like the question allows me to amend that detail given the contradiction between "gaming PC" and the strongly implied "qualifies as a gaming PC while driving the VR headset"
@makoyass Also thousand dollar gaming PCs don't even seem to exist. Recommended builds on PCPartPicker don't call sub-thousand dollar builds gaming pcs. Edit: Urgh, I misread this, forgot it was displaying in NZD, entry level builds are under 1000 USD.
@creator they just announced a standalone VR headset. the specs look decent! you might have to make a call
@Stralor No resolution for now, it's going to depend on how it runs these games in practice. Which isn't even really about the hardware, it's also in part about whether the software clicks the linux checkbox on their anticheat, whether they gracefully support downspeccing the graphics to work in standalone.
@makoyass yeah I've been very impressed with SteamOS's ability to run high level games on lower end hardware as I've used my Deck. this new headset also supposedly being designed to handle non-VR games is fascinating
Took a moment to reflect on what computing will actually be like by 2034... and it's pretty likely that "desktop gaming PC", "wearable PC" and possibly also "Valve" will have completely lost their original meanings.
I feel like every market should have a "N/A on singularity" clause.
Funny that we've had the idiom "all bets are off" for a long time but still bad rental contracts that crushed like a million businesses for no good reason when an unexpected catastrophe occurred.
Dawns on me that any gaming laptop that can drive a VR headset right from boot, for which a back harness is available (or that can, somehow ventilate itself while inside a backpack), would qualify. But laptops currently cannot output to a VR headset right from boot (or, headsets don't emulate flat displays), and Valve has not made a gaming laptop yet. Still feels like the kind of thing they'd do.