Steam Index is great if you don't care about cords / needing a PC. Easy to do VRchat, IRacing, or even blade & sorcery game sessions for 3-4+ hours without any eye strain, headaches, motion sickness, or discomfort from the headset.

It also fits over / around glasses

Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2".

Seconded, I think. I've been very happy with my Valve Index, but I don't know how it compares to newer headsets on the market.

More broadly, I find that Valve represents my interests far more than Facebook/Meta does. So I'd much rather send my money to Valve.

I'll third this - Valve is really unobtrusive about the steam related features of the index. It does have some requirements with steam for setup but if you want to run a local binary and mess around with dev tools it's extremely easy to do. It's also extremely well sealed and designed - I tend to sweat a lot and a few times I've been beat sabering for quite a while without any long term damage to the headset.

> Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2".

Another big reason not to buy a Steam Index is "not available in your country". The only VR headsets I've seen in stores here are the Quest 2/3 and the PSVR2; and the Steam store page for the Valve Index (and the Steam Deck) says "not available in your country".

Agreed. Some example links or a single small before/after image would have helped.

It'd be great if the mp4 used two audio channels, one for the track and one for the vocals. In lieu of that looks like you can just hit

storage.googleapis.com/ splash-services-prod-public/ generated/ YOUR_SONG_ID/track.mp3

^ no spaces though,

to get the audio without vocals.