We've just had a new update from Valve about the Steam Frame, so I'm here to tell you everything we know so far. Originally slated for a release in "early 2026", the Steam Frame's price and official launch date should have been with us by now. Valve took to a new hardware blog to say that a release in the first half of 2026 is still on course, but amidst a RAM pricing crisis, we aren't getting a proper price and launch announcement just yet.
We did, however, get some more handy information and close-up looks at a few finer details of the Steam Frame in this new blog post though, so it's time to re-examine everything we know. From the outset, it looks as though Gabe Newell's company is taking a really different approach with this headset than it did with the Valve Index. Valve's first headset earned a spot among the best VR headsets, but it was very much billed as a high-end device that was still in the early era of at-home VR gaming devices. Steam Frame looks like it wants to fit in with a new era of Valve's hardware which is priced more reasonably, although we await confirmation on that.
