Rockpapershotgun iconRockpapershotgunSep 14, 2026 ~1 min source read

Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones

It's a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one. A fight which, judging by how it'll cost ya £889 / $1,059 at minimum, it lost.

Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones

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It's a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one.

A fight which, judging by how it'll cost ya £889 / $1,059 at minimum, it lost.

However, something else the Frame has in common with the revamped Steam Machine is that as a piece of hardware per se, it's really quite likeable.

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It's a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one. A fight which, judging by how it'll cost ya £889 / $1,059 at minimum, it lost. However, something else the Frame has in common with the revamped Steam Machine is that as a piece of hardware per se, it's really quite likeable.

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  • It's a happy marriage of core VR capability and genuinely new engineering ideas: some simple practicality boons, some with the potential to change PC games as we know them.

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