Steam Frame, Explained

05/12/2025 51 min Temporada 1 Episodio 17
Steam Frame, Explained

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Send us a textWe dig into Valve’s Steam Frame headset, the revived Steam Machine concept, and the new Steam Controller 2.0, weighing smart tradeoffs against ambitious promises. Comfort, eye tracking, and foveated streaming headline a PC-first strategy that could challenge Quest on user experience.• why Valve picked a mobile ARM chip over XR silicon• eye tracking as the key to dynamic foveated rendering gains• PC-hybrid focus with a low-latency wireless streaming puck• openness of the Steam library and Linux-first SteamOS• missing features: no hand tracking, monochrome pass-through• LCD panels vs OLED hopes, and real-world contrast limits• comfort-first design with balanced weight and modular front• Steam Machine power, TDP, and tough pricing realities• controller upgrades: dual trackpads, gyro, community profiles• future possibilities: gaze input, hybrid compute, OpenXR portsTell us what you think. Don’t forget to subscribe, share, hit the like button, you know, all that stuffSupport the show

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