The $7.98 SteamVR overlay vrOS shipped playtest builds 2.1.0, 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 between October 13 and 16, swapping camera-based Steam Frame tracker alignment for a walk-based ±2 cm room lock and then patching a 10 cm drift after tracking loss, while its own docs still call the native Frame build unreleased.
VRChat’s 2026.4.1 open beta adds a Safety Center and a plan to replace account suspensions with feature-level restrictions and in-client appeals. The backend is not live, so every tester sees ‘Account Standing: Good’, and two patch builds in seven days fixed calibration and OSC bugs.
Valve’s SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta adds just six new changelog lines, including improved Steam Frame wireless adapter support and the return of Android binder IPC. Linux 7.2 and Plasma 6.7.3 carry over from earlier 3.9 previews.
An unofficial mirror called evlaV turned Valve’s Steam Frame source tarballs into 24 GitHub repositories in under 13 minutes. We checked the timestamps, branches, and commit authors.
Road to VR put Valve’s promised Steam Frame head strap back in the news on October 15. The details still trace to September interviews and a June FCC manual, and Valve has yet to give a price, a date, or a photo.
A stable Steam Client update for Frame stops Wi-Fi power saving from re-enabling at startup, while the opt-in SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta adds .apk files to Desktop mode’s Add to Steam menu. Valve publishes no compatibility list.
SideQuest Ltd. lists AltspaceVR on Steam as free Early Access for October 2026, keeps the price free after Early Access in its FAQ, and names Steam Frame on the recommended VR line—without a ship day or Microsoft data migration.
A developer got HEVC 8-bit and 10-bit hardware decoding working inside a modified Lepton container on Steam Frame. Valve closed the opt-in request as a duplicate of a work item that still has no description, assignee or date.
Zen Studios’ Pinball FX VR went live on Steam on October 14 as a Steam Frame-only game at $9.99. Hours later the studio said a DLC recognition fault may leave some purchased tables temporarily unavailable, with no fix timeline.
SteamFrameHub, Notebookcheck, and Steam Deck HQ say public SteamOS kernel branches describe Plano micro-OLED panels at 3552×3840 per eye on the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with a half-native default render and foveated scaling — Valve has not announced it.