Rest in peace. I never met you, and it's too late for you to see these words, but, I'm glad you got to see how much people cared about you before the end overall.

You helped actually bring some of what good there is in the video game space to fruition.

I'm sure you knew that, though.

Ok I did in fact manage to eventually find the source where they'd claimed it's trying to be cheaper www.roadtovr.com/steam-frame-...

If I may hazard a guess, they probably decided to move a lot of that power to the Steam Machine and make the wireless streaming more seamless so that it could be basically the same experience as that original plan for a more reasonable price point for most people.

The early prototypes of the Index would've costed, from what I recall, estimated of about 5000 or so USD. They clearly didn't actually put that out as the finished thing.

Also, I don't know where people heard this, but I've seen some say they've mentioned shooting for cheaper than Index..?

Worth a mention the way the device worked during said rumors vs. how the device works now are seemingly different. Rumors described it as being a standalone headset focused on running games locally. It is now a headset focused on streaming games wirelessly that technically can run some stuff locally

Descent is a 3D game where its environments are, as I gather, formed out of deformed cubes internally... figuratively *AND* literally. You view the cubes from inside them! Also, Sega Saturn games are, as I recall, made out of squares.

Maybe this system is trying to follow suit. I dunno!