Valve’s Steam store now says the Index is no longer being produced. Remaining headsets, controllers and accessories are 20% off while supplies last, and existing owners keep Steam and SteamVR support.
The free Arcturus Vision Camera app now hands Steam Frame back to its own infrared passthrough when a room goes dark, lets owners bind the switch to any button, and warns that switching cameras can temporarily remove the chaperone.
Bigscreen says Steam Frame demand has Beyond 2 selling faster than last holiday season, with no numbers. The Universal-Fit Cushion is sold out, the Light Seal is the new default, and new Halo Mount orders now ship in December.
Valve’s public Steam Frame hardware repo exposes a 44-pin nose-bridge port with one borrowed PCIe Gen4 lane and a 2A supply, discloses that early units shipped with a 1A part, and keeps it all non-commercial.
Valve moved SteamOS 0.4 for Steam Frame to stable with up to 12% battery gains, streaming fixes, and dominant-eye options. The full Error 17 fix still requires SteamVR 2.18.2 from the beta branch.
SteamOS 0.4.5 for Steam Frame adds one line: a fix for a headset chroma regression in VR streaming. Valve never said which build caused it, shipped a second color fix the same evening, and still keeps the PC-side SteamVR 2.18.2 on beta.
Pimax’s new wireless PC VR headset ships in 2027 for $1,399, but Native Foveated Streaming needs the $599 60G AirLink kit, and standalone apps run on a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1.
GamingOnLinux counts more than 200 Steam Frame Verified titles, up from 143 on September 18, with 70 VR-only. Flat games appear to be driving most of the growth.
SteamVR beta 2.18.1 lists a keyboard fix for Skyrim VR ‘in some scenarios.’ Two owners in Valve’s bug forum say the keyboard still never appears at character creation in Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR, and both fixes remain on beta branches.
Udi Wertheimer ran Half-Life: Alyx on Vision Pro with no PC and no streaming, using Valve’s Linux ARM build for Steam Frame, the open-source Klepton layer, and help from Claude. It is a demo, not a release.