u/Koolala

The 'peer-review' process for this book Kim paid to have published took a single day. It was not actually seriously reviewed. A room-temp superconductor is an extraordinary scientific claim that shouldn't be published carelessly.

>https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1243005
"Because the sample contains only about 5% superconducting phase, the magnetization contribution from the normal (non-superconducting) matrix was subtracted."

The entire paper relies on completely un-supported data. Kim claims his sample is 5% superconductor. He does present any actual evidence for this. Then he 'subtracted' the non-superconducting parts from his measurements to make his contrived data look good. He does not explain how the contribution from the non-superconducting part was found either.

LCD displays one major downside is the backlight constantly shinning light. To fully customize the total brightness of the Frame could a cheap disk of polarizing plastic over our lenses be enough to fully control our display brightness by setting its rotation? I doubt the hardware settings give you the 100% full range of control over how dim the backlight can get.
Pancake lenses use polarizers to work though so that might have interesting unintended effects.

For things like horror games, games in night environments, or VR sleeping music visualizers it might be interesting to experiment with. The Frame can be used for IR night vision so imagine using it with your eyes fully adjusted after 10 minutes in the dark.

Yes, the only way this works is by dimming everything.

But could experimental VR art be made to be visible mainly through the rods in your eyes, so you could experience it with dark-adapted vision? Things look different in the dark. I attached a chart as Image 2 to show what I am talking about. Do you think current VR headset backlight dimming goes low enough to see VR with your eyes in that dark range or do we need a polarizer mod to get there? Could we make AR night vision that uses IR to expand what our eyes see while keeping them fully adjusted to the dark?

Would anyone be interested in trying to get a Web Browser working in VR on SteamOS as a group? If we got a browser working today in SteamOS with OpenXR then FEX will probably make it work on Steam Frame on Day 1.

How to participate:

1. Have access to SteamOS
   a. Have a Steam Deck
   or
   b. Have a PC you can install a SteamOS partition on (AMD i think?)

Feel free to ask questions or discuss the general idea in the comments. If your curious what this kind of work looks like, here is a blog post as an example: https://blogs.igalia.com/svillar/post/wpe-webxr/

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamframe/debugging

Pretty neat they added a way to see motion and depth buffers. And they recommend remoting into the Frame's Linux desktop to your Windows desktop to debug directly on it if your streaming.

Source from the Steam Frame Compatibility Review Process doc:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamframe/compat

should be great for running at 144hz. steamvr hasn't had reprojection improvements for a very long time.