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Valve Open-Sources Lepton, the Android Container for Steam Frame VR Ports

September 27, 2026 by mw

Valve Steam Frame standalone VR headset product photo

Valve published frame-public/lepton on GitLab: a non-root Android container that runs Android-exclusive VR games on Steam Frame / Linux via the Steam client — built for developers porting titles, not general Android use.

Valve Open-Sources Lepton, the Android Layer Behind Steam Frame

September 19, 2026 by mw

Valve headquarters lobby (CC BY 4.0, Tim Eulitz / Wikimedia Commons)

Valve quietly published Lepton on its SteamOS GitLab. The Android container layer that powers Steam Frame VR ports is now MIT plus GPL-3.0 for the rootfs.