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Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]
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The new controller and headset have ~~stressed~~ addressed every issue I had with each directly.
It killed me that the original Controller didn’t have a second analog stick. A lot of people tried to claim that the trackpad was a viable replacement, but I just could never get used to it. Loved all the other features.
On top of that, no more light towers! I’ll finally be able to bring it friends’ places to demo! Plus the fact that the headset supports native gaming means no tower needed for some titles. I’d imagine the vast majority of VR-focused titles will run just fine since they almost all target low-spec anyway.
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I wonder if the Steam Frame is the codename deckard. I was really excited for that because it was supposed to have Steam Deck performance, but with an Arm processor that will be hard since most games need an emulation layer.
It is Deckard, from the looks of it won't be as powerful as the steam deck but not because the ARM chip is slow. They said it is just because the effective TDP of the ARM chip (after subtracting all the work it is doing to track the headset and controllers and do the rendering) is like 7 watts, compared to the 15 watts of the steam deck. So you will probably still be able to run some of the more indie games on it. The translation later is also a 10-15% slow-down for CPU bound games, but they said should be negligible for GPU bound games.
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Been waiting for this vr headset to release for years, only to find they’ve used lcd’s instead of OLED screens. I’m so disappointed and pissed.
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With the fact there's apparently surprisingly reasonable evidence of a new half life game, I wonder if that's likely to get announced when they give these a release date. I could see them bundling it with the steam machines at least. Assuming the rumors turn out to be true.
I've been under the impression that it is very likely to be a sequel to Alyx. Possibly a launch title for the Frame.
But I don't think any of the rumors expected a new Steam Machine. We thought it was gonna be a new Deck.
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I'm disappointed in the screens they used but it unfortunately makes sense that 4k microOLED isn't feasible. I wish the new controllers supported Lighthouse tracking too. If the new controllers really are proprietary to just this single HMD that's a big failure in my opinion.
The only other major PC oriented inside-out system, Windows Mixed Reality, allowed controllers and headsets from all brands participating in the program to freely intermix. I'd doubt Valve would be dumb enough not to also follow this path, if there are ever successive iterations of this hardware.
let's hope they sell these globally this time.
I will buy the VR headset immediately
I wonder why only HDMI 2.0 on the Steam Machine, 'cos RDNA3 is capable of HDMI 2.1 and you need it to go over 4k 60Hz (I know it says 4k 120Hz for the Steam Machine's HDMI but I suspect that's either 4:2:2 color or DSC if it is really HDMI 2.0).
I believe they mentioned that it is basically HDMI 2.1 but some features weren't supported maybe 4:2:2 color, I don't remember. I think they also mentioned they are working on fixing it so they can call it HDMI 2.1 but they aren't sure if they can so they are just calling it 2.0 right now to be safe.
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