After the dull thump of the Apple Vision Pro and a tepid response to the more expensive Quest 3, virtual reality gaming seems to be in a lurch, and I’m kinda worried . But the Steam Frame headset, a hardware cousin to the Steam Deck and incoming Steam Machine, might just turn things around. And an updated VR game has shed some interesting light on what it might mean for developers.

Follow along with me here, this one has some pretty deep context. The Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset like the Meta Quest series , which runs on a Qualcomm Arm chip and has its own battery and head-mounted tracking cameras. That’s in stark contrast to Valve’s previous VR hardware like the Index, which needs to connect to a PC to play games or other programs.

The new Frame will also connect to gami

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