Valve have a new trademark filed for Steam Frame, with it appearing to be multiple new types of hardware that's on the way.
To paraphrase Jeff Grubb, there’s been more smoke lately indicating a console than VR, but “frame” implies glasses implies VR headset. It could go either way or both, where the console and VR are complementary. Or neither! But I think smart money is on Valve announcing new hardware imminently, and personally, I think it’s a console like a Steam Machine but with the library problem now solved.
There were leaked specs for hardware that Valve was testing that could theoretically retail between $500 and $700, but that is analysis and inference only, not an announcement. Separately, there were leaked designs of a new Steam controller that was supposedly on its way to the production line for mass production. Valve also has ties to Keighley and the Game Awards, where Alyx was announced back in 2019 before a March release in 2020, so there could be something like that again. Another reminder that the next Half-Life game is also rumored to be imminent, so it would make sense to pair these things together like Alyx and the Index.
There’s no way it’s VR. They already have the Index name for the VR line. It’d be called the Index 2 without a doubt. Maybe AR glasses, but frame does not imply glasses. Sure, glasses have a frame, but so do so many other things. Have you ever heard of a main frame? Those aren’t a type of glasses.
The vast majority of people today have no idea whata mainframe is or think it is an old and outdated concept (or where Dot and Enzo live). Similarly, the Index branding is pretty much aligned with “VR is insanely expensive” so it wouldn’t make sense to reuse that.
What we do know is that Valve have a console form factor device in development and a new VR device in development. There are arguments for Frame being either of those. My hopium being that it is the unified ecosystem where, through the power of streaming (I am all for Steam Link either using moonlight or making better moonlight), you can have your VR/TV/Handheld gaming get supercharged by your desktop or whatever but, time will tell.
Although, truth be told, I mostly just want a Steam Controller 2.
Main frame was just an example of a type of frame that aren’t glasses. There are many other types of frames that have nothing to do with glasses. A frame is just the structure of something. The people using that name to say it must be glasses are hyper-focusing on one usage of the word.
Although, truth be told, I mostly just want a Steam Controller 2.
They’ve been working on standalone VR for a while now, like the Quest, so it wouldn’t have to be called Index 2, since it’s not just an improved version of what they made before. A colloquial term for glasses is “frames”.
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There’s no way it’s VR. They already have the Index name for the VR line. It’d be called the Index 2 without a doubt. Maybe AR glasses, but frame does not imply glasses. Sure, glasses have a frame, but so do so many other things. Have you ever heard of a main frame? Those aren’t a type of glasses.
The vast majority of people today have no idea whata mainframe is or think it is an old and outdated concept (or where Dot and Enzo live). Similarly, the Index branding is pretty much aligned with “VR is insanely expensive” so it wouldn’t make sense to reuse that.
What we do know is that Valve have a console form factor device in development and a new VR device in development. There are arguments for Frame being either of those. My hopium being that it is the unified ecosystem where, through the power of streaming (I am all for Steam Link either using moonlight or making better moonlight), you can have your VR/TV/Handheld gaming get supercharged by your desktop or whatever but, time will tell.
Although, truth be told, I mostly just want a Steam Controller 2.
Main frame was just an example of a type of frame that aren’t glasses. There are many other types of frames that have nothing to do with glasses. A frame is just the structure of something. The people using that name to say it must be glasses are hyper-focusing on one usage of the word.
This I can agree with.
They’ve been working on standalone VR for a while now, like the Quest, so it wouldn’t have to be called Index 2, since it’s not just an improved version of what they made before. A colloquial term for glasses is “frames”.