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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. 

Valve is finally launching its VR headset ‘Steam Frame,’ after remaining silent for nearly a year. Following the ‘Steam Machine,’ this completes the final puzzle of the three-hardware lineup slated for release this summer. The 256GB model is priced at $1,059 (approx. 1.43 million won) and comes with Half-Life: Alyx for free.

Valve’s continued push into the hardware spacecontinues with the release of the Steam Frame, a spiritual successor to the Valve Index and a marked improvement for standalone VR headsets everywhere.

Valve’s new VR headset, the Steam Frame, is dropping very soon, and today is the first day you can sign up to purchase one of your own. Much like with the launch of the Steam Machine, the console-like PC that dropped earlier this year, today is the first day you can get added to 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 major player in the world of PC-connected VR headsets, first through its “strategic partnership” with HTC on the…

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

Gravity gloves on, I approach a dark passage. I can hear alien grunts. The voice on my headset tells me to watch out for “barnacles,” and I know to look up and shoot ceiling-hugging aliens with the gun in my controller-gripping hand. I’m in VR, playing Half-Life Alyx again. It’s a game I once played…

Valve’s new virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, has officially been released – but it comes at a high price.