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Steam Frame Update Fixes Wi-Fi Bug as 0.5 Beta Adds APKs

October 21, 2026October 16, 2026 by mw
Valve Steam Frame VR headset with its two controllers, official Valve product image

Valve’s Steam Frame client update stops Wi-Fi power saving from turning on at startup, and SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta lets Desktop mode add .apk files to Steam.

Valve Closes Steam Frame Hardware Decode Patch as Duplicate

October 21, 2026October 14, 2026 by mw
Whirligig Media Player playback controls in VR, official Steam store screenshot

A developer got HEVC hardware decoding working in Steam Frame’s Lepton container, but Valve closed the request as a duplicate of a still-blank work item.

Valve Open-Sources Lepton, Steam Frame’s Android Container

October 21, 2026September 27, 2026 by mw
Valve Steam Frame standalone VR headset product photo

Valve published Lepton on GitLab, a non-root Android container that runs Android-exclusive VR games on Steam Frame and Linux for developers porting titles.

Valve Open-Sources Lepton Android Layer Behind Steam Frame

October 21, 2026September 19, 2026 by mw
Valve headquarters lobby (CC BY 4.0, Tim Eulitz / Wikimedia Commons)

Valve quietly published Lepton, the Android container layer powering Steam Frame VR ports, on its SteamOS GitLab under MIT and GPL-3.0 licenses.

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