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Steam Deck

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This is a screenless computer, meant to be used with XR/AR glasses or an external display. The Steam Deck motherboard goes in a 3d printed housing underneath the keyboard, giving you a keyboard that only needs to be connected to a display for a portable computer set up.

Here's the hacker news discussion on it, includes comments from the creator of the project

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Why build this

Primarily out of frustration. The dominant players in XR keep promoting their hardware as “computers”, when really they’re an iPad for your face. The most you can do is browse the web, play games, and consume content. They’re overweight and over constrained.

Okay but like, you could have just kept the screen, joysticks, touchpads and buttons and it's only slightly larger LOL

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

True, but he's mainly wanting a keyboard setup for it. This is only slightly thicker than the keyboard by itself, and reduces the pieces he has to bring with him to keyboard + glasses.

There's also the added memory of a guy sitting in a coffee shot wearing sunglasses, typing away on a keyboard without a computer in sight. Should be an excellent start to roleplaying a blind schizophrenic at starbucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'm not one to yuck anyone's yum, it just sounds like a waste of time and money.

a guy sitting in a coffee shot wearing sunglasses, typing away on a keyboard without a computer in sight

I do want to try this now though haha. Especially when desktop mode comes to Pixels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Instead of a keyboard it should be the loudest most old fashioned typewriter possible, but still connected to AR glasses

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

just get cherry MX blue switches

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Could connect it to a virtual boy display

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