It's been nearly six years since Valve released the Index, a PC gaming VR headset that's still praised today as one of the best ever made. In that time, the VR landscape has changed massively though, and devices from the Valve Index era that launched with motion tracking base stations and frustrating cables are starting to show their age.
It's been rumored for a while that Valve is secretly working on a successor to the Valve Index, and new leaks put it in position to challenge the best VR headsets on the market today. Codenamed "Deckard", the headset is touted to be a standalone, wireless device like the Meta Quest 3 or Pico 4 Ultra. It's also got controllers with the codename "Roy", so Apple Vision Pro's hand-tracking approach doesn't seem to be what Valve is chasing.
