Steam Frame Unboxing & Setup Videos Leak, Pointing to Imminent Launch
It looks as though Valve is actually gearing up to release Steam Frame, as user setup videos have leaked showing off unboxing and first-time user experience with Valve’s first standalone VR headset.
As first reported by Steam Hardware Updates on X, the ARM Steam Client got an update this week that contained a number of videos, including an unboxing, sign-in, and setup video of Steam Frame.
Although Valve immediately pulled the videos in a subsequent update, all three video has been reuploaded multiple times by now; here’s one such compilation from YouTube channel VRelity that includes all three.
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"you need a Steam account to use Steam Frame" doesn't sound great. Though I trust Valve infinitely more than Meta, I still hope they aren't trying to prevent the hardware from being used outside their ecosystem.
Yeah, I've been really looking forward to this thing, but I don't like that little blurb at all. I totally get needing a sign-in to run Steam-purchased games directly on the headset, but it shouldn't be required for streaming or any of the other functionality. When a product requires sign-in to function, if that sign-in stops working for some reason (no internet, product out of support due to age, etc) then that product becomes an expensive brick. I'm hoping they just mean that it requires a sign-in to be used in standalone mode with Steam games. We'll see.
They're probably trying to head off scalpers this time. You know they will send a robot army to buy all these headsets up and jack the price on the used market.
Granted it's a much more complex system than the controller, I do expect a means of using the headset and motion controllers outside of steam shortly after launch.
Given there are no tethered capabilities, I do wonder how complicated it would be to have this foveated streaming solution running elsewhere.
(I would prefer the option to plug a cable in, personally :/)
The glossy outfacing surface does not look appealing and prone to scratches I believe, where I would prefer matte or something solid instead, yet the overall wireless wonder is, of course, a dear miracle... of a great amount of hard work and ingenious attitude of the developers, artists... which is ineffably magnificent...
Agreed, that’s all I ever think about whenever I see those surfaces.
I had that in my last car, a Kia Niro, and it was so ugly and scratched and filled with fingerprints after just a month of owning it.
I don’t know why they insist on using that material.
Brace yourself for the price boys and girls, also for the availability.
This needs to be out today!