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Valve is also rolling out a developer kit for VR developers targeting its new headset.

Surprising no-one, Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset is launching with higher-than-expected prices, following the Steam Machine in having its budget-friendly intentions foiled by the memory shortage...

The Steam Frame is here and it's one of the best VR headsets I've ever had attached to my face, just don't ask me about the price. But when we spoke to two of the people at Valve who helped create...

As reported by Eurogamer, Lies of P publisher Neowiz has filed an EU trademark for something called "Wonders of O" categorized as, among other, similar things, a bit of "virtual reality game...

I spoke with Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Jeff Leinbaugh about the Steam Frame launch, why the company is taking a two-pronged strategy with streaming and standalone support, and how the...

After many years of waiting and a few false starts over on Reddit, the Steam Frame is finally here. We even have a price for the virtual reality headset, which is set to ship imminently to customers....

Prior to the official launch of the Steam Frame, Tom's Hardware Premium had a chance to talk with Valve engineers Jeff Leinbaugh and Pierre-Loup Griffais. We discussed the development process behind...

Even as Apple temporarily downsizes its Apple Vision Pro hardware team, visionOS 27 shows development of the platform hasn't slowed. Here's what's new now that is available for download.visionOS 27...

Valve just announced the price of the Steam Frame. It costs $1,059/€1,049 for the standard 256GB version and $1,299/€1,279 for the 1TB version. The two versions are identical, they just have...

Apple Vision Pro’s next major software update is here. visionOS 27 is rolling out now to all Vision Pro models, here’s what’s new. more…

The Valve Index might be outdated in many ways today, but it still holds a special place in my heart for its excellent audio solution: twin speakers that deliver impressive spatial properties without...

The iOS 27 update arrives just in time for the iPhone 18 Pro release. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the...

Apple today released visionOS 27, the newest version of the visionOS operating system that runs on the Apple Vision Pro. It is a free update available on both versions of the Vision Pro headset....

Valve today opened pre-orders for Steam Frame, its long-awaited standalone VR headset, which finally reveals pricing info, official accessories, and release date. Steam Frame is set launch at the...

It’s a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one. The supply of original virtual reality games has slowed to a dribble, and just as with Valve’s...

Valve have just launched the Steam Frame wireless VR headset, finally completing the triumvirate of new hardware - along with the new Steam Machine and Steam Controller - that they unveiled all the...

The Steam Frame VR headset doesn’t do anything but play games, but there are so many more reasons to care.

The Steam Frame is cool and has some good ideas, but it's hard to recommend it

The Steam Frame VR headset is all about gaming, and that means RAMageddon has taken the screws to its price tag.

Valve just officially revealed Steam Frame's price, announced that it comes with standalone Half-Life: Alyx, and opened reservations to secure a unit.First revealed 10 months ago, Steam Frame is a...

In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to being a...

The rumors are true: Valve finally confirmed it’s creating a standalone port of Half-Life: Alyx (2020) for Steam Frame, although it won’t be ready at launch. Valve finally announced Steam Frame’s...

So you’re looking to buy Valve’s first standalone VR headset, the long-awaited Steam Frame? There are a few things you should know though before plonking down your hard-earned cash. What is Steam...

The Steam Frame is a pretty great standalone VR headset, it's just too bad it costs over $1,000.

Valve has unveiled pricing for its new VR headset, and like the Steam Machine, it's bound to be controversial.

For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC. At first glance, it's easy to write it off as a pricey headset that missed the VR craze. At...

Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC. The Steam Frame will start at $1,059. Valve will also...

Today, Valve is launching its first headset since 2019 - the new Steam Frame - while dodging our questions about whether it'll ever make another VR game to go with it. But buyers of the $1,059 gadget...

Hey! I'm Sean Hollister, you might have seen me around this place a few times, and I just spent three weeks beta-testing the Steam Frame, Valve's hotly anticipated new don't-call-it-a-VR-headset that...

Valve has been ramping up its hardware releases during 2026, with the Steam Controller launching this past spring, followed by the Steam Machine earlier this summer. The 2026 hardware onslaught is...

The Steam Frame is a great way to game in virtual reality. I've been testing it for three weeks and I've played more VR games in that time than I have in many months. That's because, above all else,...

The Steam Frame is ready for launch, and Valve has finally announced pricing and availability for its streaming/standalone VR headset.There are two models of the Steam Frame available:Steam Frame...

Valve has said its new Steam Frame VR headset, despite costing nearly £900 for a base model, is intended to "expand the market" of virtual reality headsets. That's both because it's lightweight...

After years of rumours, and 10 months since its official unveiling, Valve's long-awaited standalone VR headset, Steam Frame, is poised to begin shipping soon, and with a confirmed starting price of...

And so here it is: Steam Frame; Valve's second in-house VR headset following 2019's Index, featuring a boosted spec sheet, PC-to-headset streaming, and the ability to function standalone. It is, if...

Valve essentially considers Steam Frame a ‘streaming-first’ VR device, capable of directly connecting to your PC via a Wi-Fi 6E dongle so you can play high-quality VR and flatscreen games. But don’t...

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...

Combat flight sim Aces of Thunder's latest update brings crossplay, plus new aircraft, new single-player missions, several gameplay tweaks and some VR-specific improvements.Aces of Thunder has just...

Meta Connect 2026 is fast approaching, and it seems a big surprise hardware announcement has just been leaked — by none other than Meta itself. It’s not much but our first official look at the...

<p>Ever tried touching your face in VR, only to have your controller hit your headset?</p>

Until a little over a week ago, I had never built a VR app.I’ve spent a few years using VR and writing about it, so I have a pretty good sense of what feels natural inside a headset. Building those...

Plaintiffs in Illinois and California aren't happy with Meta dabbling in facial recognition on smart glasses.

The Seattle-based VR specialist has closed its doors after over a decade.

Apple laid off around 100 staff working on Vision Pro, including "largely shutting down" the spatial gaming team and downsizing the immersive video team, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.Gurman...

Leading AI models stumble out of the gate, Apple's foldable is finally here, and another VR studio bites the dust. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the eyes of Charlie...

iOS 27 is now rolling out to compatible iPhones, and this year, the list of models supported by Apple's new software update is impressively long.Typically, Apple leaves a handful of iPhones out in...

A software engineer and creative tinkerer has shown off a futuristic Meta Quest plus 3D printer workflow in a video shared on social media. Hank on X demonstrates modeling a 3D object on his...

Moss developer Polyarc Games announced it’s closing shop following a “major project” cancellation earlier this year. Polyarc announced the closure in a LinkedIn post (via Good Virtual Reality),...

The next couple of weeks are going to be exciting: most probably Steam Frame is launching today, Snap Specs is launching on the 16th, and Meta Connect is on the 23rd. A lot of new AR/VR headsets and...

A 66-page class action filed September 4 in the Northern District of Illinois builds part of its facial recognition case on a Meta patent application published in May. The patent is real, and its own title cuts against the reading the plaintiffs give it.

French XR startup Lynx found a buyer, but the fate of its second headset remains unclear.Lynx founder and CEO Stan Larroque confirmed in July that EssilorLuxottica acquired the company, including its...

Polyarc wound down on September 11 after nearly twelve years. Eight days earlier it shipped a free local co-op update for Moss: The Forgotten Relic, and two days earlier it posted a discount. The dates are worth reading in order.

SteamVR 2.17 went stable on September 10. Buried under OpenXR is 32-bit runtime support, which matters because Windows sends 32-bit apps to a different registry branch than the one your 64-bit runtime is registered in.

Below Great on Frame sits a Playable tier with 23 games in it, and the result tokens say why each one missed. Eleven failed because they never ask the system for the on-screen keyboard, and sixteen of the 23 are Steam Deck Verified.

Valve now names a runtime for every Great on Frame title, and 52 of the 130 point at lepton-stable, its Android layer, rather than Proton. Three of them are Steam pages with no PC build at all.

Counterpoint Research updated its quarterly XR shipment tracker on September 8. VR headsets fell 18 percent year over year in Q2 2026 and AR devices rose 138 percent, but the paragraph worth reading is the one naming enterprise buyers and robotics teams as the demand that held.

Lumus named Zhejiang Crystal-Optech as a third manufacturer for its geometric waveguides on September 9, eight days after licensing its next-generation thin waveguides to Quanta Computer. Both partners are also investors in the company.

Hello Games shipped No Man's Sky Cosmos, update 7.0, on September 9. The rendering section adds foveated rendering on PC VR, the bug fix section still has time for a PSVR Move controller binding, and the spacewalk rework raises a comfort question nobody can answer yet.

A hand-tracked mixed reality investigation game reaches PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on September 9, nineteen months after its Quest launch and two seasons after the promised spring window. Nobody has explained how the mixed reality survives the trip.

Two FCC grants landed under Pico's grantee code on September 1. The head-mounted half is authorized for one radio band, 2402 to 2480 MHz. The tethered unit carries 5 GHz, 6 GHz and Bluetooth. The puck is not just a battery pack.

Meta announced Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere: An Immersive Experience on September 3, filmed at Billy Bob's Texas and shot for 3D VR 180. The announcement quantifies nothing, which leaves commissioning behavior as the only readable signal in a category both platform holders are treating differently.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a live theatre production performed inside VRChat for six people at a time, took Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the Creative Arts Emmys.

SteamDB shows two of the Steam Frame's seven backend packages changed on September 3 after sitting untouched since May 5, and Brad Lynch says a reservation system for two SKUs went live alongside them. The Steam Machine's packages moved six days before its lottery opened.

Sony's August 2026 PS VR2 download chart puts Job Simulator, Pavlov and Moss VR back in the top ten, all three dated February 22, 2023. Bootstrap Island reached number three in nineteen days on sale, and nothing from 2025 charted at all.

Realities.io shipped a five year birthday update for Puzzling Places on September 3. The feature list is filed under three platform headings instead of by feature, the three biggest additions are Quest only, and the passthrough slider is listed for a Valve headset that has not shipped yet.

Stryker announced on September 1 that the first hip arthroscopy using SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro was completed at Duke Health. The more consequential document is FDA's De Novo record DEN250040, which created product code SIT and regulation 888.1150, a new Class II classification whose listed submission type is already 510(k).

TDK's AIsight unit closed its OQmented purchase in May and announced it on August 18, taking the patents and the engineers but not the product support, warranties or customer obligations. The technology has now had three corporate owners and two insolvencies in under a year.

HTC published US store listings for the Vive Eagle on September 3 at $499. Three configurations are buyable, seven say Coming Soon, and the 90 language translation in the marketing is the paid tier, not the two years of VIVE AI Plus that ships in the box.

Valve's Steam Link public beta on Quest can now stream over a USB-C cable, riding on NCM support Meta added in Horizon OS 2.5. It still wants your Wi-Fi on, and a one-star open-source repo documents why.

Beyond 2 now starts at $959 and Beyond 2e at $1,159, down $60 each. The headset price did not move. The standard configuration swapped a $120 cushion built from a 3D face scan for a $60 universal one.