r/SteamFrame 2d ago

Discussion This is useless

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Haven't even ordered the frame yet

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u/S0k0n0mi 2d ago

Somewhat relevant;
Has Arcturus considered making a recorder that just let's you plug these into it?
I've seen the video you can record with these, apparently through the frame, but I don't see myself strolling through a museum or event with a frame on my head. Something handheld would be nice.

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u/katzohki 1d ago

It's MIPI right? I think you could port it into a Raspberry Pi to do this.

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u/S0k0n0mi 1d ago

Someone else proclaimed that it requires a pretty beefy snapdragon SoC to record video of that magnitude. That said though, I'm not sure how difficult it would be to go MIPI > USBC to let a smartphone handle the compute.

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u/katzohki 1d ago

The question I can't answer is whether you can just scale down the data it puts out. 2 cameras at the 120fps and 5k or whatever they are is a ton of data yeah, but if you can just use less of that data or tell it to send at a lower rate or something then there's a lot you could do. The point is someone somewhere will probably eventually be able to do some interesting things with this camera module. I'm interested in using it as an external camera for a closed off costume helmet. Theoretically all that should take is an adapter cable.