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Valve reconfirm the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller are due in 2026
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I just hope they fix their SteamVR software for Linux, it's been years of it being unusable despite the Valve Index being advertised as Linux compatible
Given that the Frame runs Linux, I would sure expect so
I hope they'll fix it for their own past headsets like the Index and HTC Vive they've co-designed
The optimistic approach is that they have a unified VR runtime that is straight up missing features on Linux, so hopefully they'll fix that up and improve it to work better.
This is my hope, too, but realistically what is going to happen is that it will only work well, out of the box for their own gear. I like the idea of getting a frame and machine (even if it is a bit underpowered), wireless foveated streaming means longer battery life and if it just works, that would be amazing. Lots of people complaining the machine will be underpowered, but they aren't counting that Valve has been using this as a target platform. Lots of shit will just work out of the box because that will give the best experience. Probably trying to get the wireless link on your own linux setup won't work without lots of futzing. Valve is free to put in whatever hacks they need to make it go. I'm willing to pay money for that so I'm not wasting my Claude tokens and my time trying to make it go