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Valve has finally announced the Steam Frame release date, price, and pre-order details. However, some buyers hoping for long gameplay sessions with the VR headset are expressing concern. Most reviews cite short battery life as a drawback of the wearable.

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 last hardware launch, the Steam Frame arrives covered in bumps and scrapes from a fight with the…

Valve, the company that operates Steam, has released the Steam Frame VR headset. The Steam Frame can not only connect wirelessly to a PC to play VR games, but it can also run VR games directly on the Steam Frame itself, allowing users to play without a PC. Furthermore, it can project a giant display…

Valve has officially announced the pricing and details of the Steam Frame, its next-gen wireless VR headset succeeding the Valve Index.

Valve has officially opened reservations for the Steam Frame, its new stand-alone VR headset. Rather than launching with a traditional preorder system, the company is using a reservation queue designed to help reduce scalping and give more buyers a fair shot at purchasing one.

Much like the Steam Machine, Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset feels like a device that should have shipped five years ago. As a standalone wireless headset, it’s directly competing with Meta’s Quest lineup, even though that company has seriously scaled back its VR ambitions. The ability to play many Steam VR games right within the…

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 you don’t mind spoilers, a good, often great bit of kit, and a fascinating machine – it’s lightweight and wonderfully comfortable, with some neat…

Valve has unveiled pricing for its new VR headset, and like the Steam Machine, it’s bound to be controversial. The Steam Frame headset will start at $1,059 for the 256GB model and rise to $1,299 for the 1TB version, including the controllers. For that sum, you’ll also get a rebuilt version of Half-Life Alyx, Valve’s…

That was not the line anybody was waiting for this morning, and I include myself, because for ten months the only question this headset ever got asked was what it would cost, and at 10:01 Pacific Valve answered it. Alex has the full price breakdown, and Nina has the reservation rules, which close Thursday at…

Following a memory-related delay, Valve’s Steam Frame is finally ready to launch.