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Valve reveals Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame, unifying PC gaming across TV, desktop, and VR, with launches for early 2026.
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With the Steam Frame, Valve Might Finally Catch Up in VR, But I Still Have Questions
Six years after the Valve Index, the company's Steam Frame ditches the cables and base stations in favor of freedom and flexibility. But can it compete in a world where VR alone isn't enough?
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.
Valve revived the Steam Machine branding for the first time since 2015 to launch a living room-focused gaming platform.
The company also teased the Steam Frame, a follow-up to the Valve Index VR headset, along with an updated Steam Controller.
Hands-on with Valve Steam Frame, a light modular VR headset that runs games locally or streams from PC, powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and eye tracking
The new headset is called the Steam Frame, and it’s trying to do several things at once. It’s a standalone VR headset with a smartphone-caliber Arm chip inside that lets you play flat-screen Windows games locally off the onboard storage or a microSD card.
Valve is adding three devices in early 2026: a new Steam Controller, a tiny Steam Machine, and Steam Frame — a wireless VR headset that also runs SteamOS. Here’s what they do, specs we know so far, regions,
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