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Hands-on: Steam Frame Reveals Valve’s Modern Vision for VR and Growing Hardware Ambitions

Valve has finally revealed Steam Frame, the company’s second VR headset. Though it’s quite a departure from Index—the company’s first headset released some six years ago—Valve says Frame is an “evolution” of Index. Indeed, Frame represents a modernized VR vision from the company that closely tracks advancements made in the XR industry more broadly, but […]

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12. November 2025

Steam Frame’s Price Hasn’t Been Locked in, But Valve Expects it to be ‘cheaper than Index’

Steam Frame, Valve’s next VR headset, has been announced, but the company has yet to reveal the price. However, the company says its goal is for Frame to be cheaper than its first VR headset. Steam Frame has finally been revealed and is planned for launch in early 2026, but Valve says it hasn’t been […]

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Valve Says No New First-party VR Game is in Development

Steam Frame has finally been revealed and promises to let players access most of their Steam library (be it VR or otherwise) right from the headset. Unfortunately, that won’t include any new VR content from Valve, the company has confirmed. During a recent interview with Valve, the company confirmed that it has no first-party VR […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

Valve is Open to Bringing SteamOS to Third-party VR Headsets

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Valve’s newly announced Steam Frame VR headset will be the first running SteamOS, the company’s Linux-based operating system. But it may not be the last. In the same way that Valve is open to other companies building traditional devices that run SteamOS—handhelds like Lenovo Legion Go S—the company says it’s also open to other companies building VR […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

Valve Plans to Offer Steam Frame Dev Kits to VR Developers

It’s been multiple years coming, but Valve has finally unveiled Steam Frame, a standalone VR headset capable of streaming flatscreen and PC VR games wirelessly, and playing them natively thanks to its onboard Snadragon SoC. But before you pull out your wallets, Valve is shipping out developer kits first. Steam Frame doesn’t have a price […]

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Valve Announces Steam Machine and New Steam Controller, Designed with Steam Frame Headset in Mind

Valve today unveiled Steam Frame alongside two other new bits of hardware: the SteamOS-running Steam Machine and a new Steam Controller—both of which aim to work seamlessly with Valve’s latest and greatest VR headset. Note: Like Steam Frame, both the new Steam Machine and Steam Controller don’t have confirmed prices or release dates yet, which […]

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Steam Frame vs. Quest 3 Specs: Better PC Streaming, Power & Hackability

Want to know how Valve’s Steam Frame standalone headset stacks up against the competition? Read on to find out. Steam Frame is a lot like Steam Deck; it can play pretty much all of Steam’s game library out of the box, which includes flatscreen content based on x86 architecture—basically everything on Steam—and also now PC […]

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Steam Frame vs. Valve Index Specs: Wireless VR Gameplay That’s Generations Ahead

Steam Frame (top), Valve Index (below) | Images courtesy Valve

Valve announced Steam Frame today, but what’s the difference between the company’s first VR headset, Valve Index? Read on to find out. Index is a tethered PC VR headset that uses the company’s SteamVR tracking standard, requiring laser-emitting basestations that the headset and Index controllers use to localize spatially for room-scale gameplay. You also need […]

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2026 Predictions: AI’s Bubble Bursts… But the Value to XR Lasts

Are we in an AI bubble? and will it burst in 2026? More importantly, what will this mean for XR and its ongoing convergence with AI? We address these questions in the first of our five big predictions for 2026.
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AR Insider & Mike Boland

What’s the Revenue Outlook for Consumer AR?

How are AR glasses expected to sell? What about apps, games, and experiences? And what will be the revenue models that develop? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment looks at projected consumer spending in headworn AR.
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11. November 2025