Valve hasn’t revealed a price or release date for its long-awaited standalone Steam Frame headset, although we seem to be getting suspiciously close to it.
As noted by hardware analyst Brady Lynch, Valve has just published a new store landing page for Steam Frame content, compiling all the “best” games and demos certified to work with the company’s soon-to-be-released VR headset.
There are currently only four titles on the Great on Frame website:
- To black (VR game) – Binary Mill
- Portal 2 (flat screen game) – Valve
- Laboratory hands diaphragm (Demonstration of hand interaction in virtual reality) – Valve
- Laboratory (large format VR demo) – Valve
Courtesy of Valve
Of course, the Steam Frame will run many (much) more games, since the standalone headset can not only download, store locally, and play almost any game on the flat screen. To Steam Deck, but also many VR games for PC, optimized to run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 (Gen 3) mobile chipset. This comes in addition to the ability to wirelessly stream games directly from a VR-enabled PC at higher quality.
While we had a chance to check out the Steam Frame following its reveal last November, the two biggest missing pieces are undoubtedly the price and release date.
If it’s something like the Steam Machine, which launched last month with a not-so-friendly price starting at $1,050, we’d also expect some initial price shock. To Valve’s credit, the company has been open about the fact that the RAM and storage crisis has driven up prices across the board, though that doesn’t make $1,000-plus MSRPs any easier to swallow.
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