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Hands-on: Steam Frame Reveals Valve’s Modern Vision for VR and Growing Hardware Ambitions

Valve has finally revealed Steam Frame, the company's second VR headset. Though it's quite a departure from Index—the company's first headset released some six years ago—Valve says Frame is an "evolution" of Index. Indeed, Frame represents a modernized VR...

Steam Frame’s Price Hasn’t Been Locked in, But Valve Expects it to be ‘cheaper than Index’

Steam Frame, Valve’s next VR headset, has been announced, but the company has yet to reveal the price. However, the company says its goal is for Frame to be cheaper than its first VR headset. Steam Frame has finally been...

Valve Says No New First-party VR Game is in Development

Steam Frame has finally been revealed and promises to let players access most of their Steam library (be it VR or otherwise) right from the headset. Unfortunately, that won’t include any new VR content from Valve, the company has...

Valve is Open to Bringing SteamOS to Third-party VR Headsets

Valve's newly announced Steam Frame VR headset will be the first running SteamOS, the company's Linux-based operating system. But it may not be the last. In the same way that Valve is open to other companies building traditional devices that run...

Valve Plans to Offer Steam Frame Dev Kits to VR Developers

It's been multiple years coming, but Valve has finally unveiled Steam Frame, a standalone VR headset capable of streaming flatscreen and PC VR games wirelessly, and playing them natively thanks to its onboard Snadragon SoC. But before you pull...

Valve Announces Steam Machine and New Steam Controller, Designed with Steam Frame Headset in Mind

Valve today unveiled Steam Frame alongside two other new bits of hardware: the SteamOS-running Steam Machine and a new Steam Controller—both of which aim to work seamlessly with Valve's latest and greatest VR headset. Note: Like Steam Frame, both the...

Steam Frame vs. Quest 3 Specs: Better PC Streaming, Power & Hackability

Want to know how Valve's newly announced Steam Frame standalone headset stacks up against the competition? Read on to find out. Steam Frame is a lot like Steam Deck; it can play pretty much all of Steam's game library out...

Steam Frame vs. Valve Index Specs: Wireless VR Gameplay That’s Generations Ahead

Valve announced Steam Frame today, but what's the difference between the company's first VR headset, Valve Index? Read on to find out. Index is a tethered PC VR headset that uses the company's SteamVR tracking standard, requiring laser-emitting basestations that...
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‘Manifold Garden’ Studio to Release Room-scale VR Puzzler ‘Hotel Infinity’ November 13th

Studio Chyr, the team behind flatscreen puzzler Manifold Garden (2019), is bringing an enigmatic VR follow-up to Quest and PSVR 2 this week. Called Hotel Infinity, the game lets you explore the winding halls and grand ballrooms of a mysterious hotel using...

Former Magic Leap Engineers Launch No-code AR Creation Platform, Aiming to Be ‘Canva of AR’

Trace, a startup founded by former Magic Leap engineers, today announced the launch of a new augmented reality creation platform the company hopes will become the "Canva of AR". The News Trace says it's targeting everyone from global brands to independent...
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‘Little Critters’ Brings Lighthearted Mixed Reality Home Defense to Quest 3 Today, Trailer Here

Purple Yonder, the studio behind VR city simulator Little Cities (2022), today released a mixed reality action-strategy game for Quest 3 and 3S that challenges you to fortify your real-world home against waves of dastardly little critters. Called Little Critters, the game...

Meta Launches Dev Competition with $1.5M Prize Pool, Focusing on Casual & Social VR Content

Meta launched a new developer competition through its Horizon Start program, which could net eligible XR dev teams a good slice of its $1.5 million prize pool. The News Meta's latest dev competition is seeking to spark "innovative, immersive experiences for...

Cambridge & Meta Study Raises the Bar for ‘Retinal Resolution’ in XR

It's been a long-held assumption that the human eye is capable of detecting a maximum of 60 pixels per degree (PPD), which is commonly called 'retinal' resolution. Any more than that, and you'd be wasting pixels. Now, a recent...

‘MultiBrush’ Studio Secures $4.5M Grant to Promote Positive VR Experiences for Elders

Rendever, the company behind Tilt Brush-based multiplayer Quest app MultiBrush (2022), has secured nearly $4.5 million in grant funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the company says it will use to bring its elder-focused VR...

Sharp is Crowdfunding a Slim & Light PC VR Headset in Japan That Feels Positively Retro

Sharp announced it's launching a crowdfunding campaign for a slim and light PC VR headset in Japan, called Xrostella VR1. The News Sharp first showed off a PC VR headset prototype at CES 2023, which was supposedly meant to ship sometime...
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