Valve’s ARM64 Steam Frame build of Half-Life: Alyx keeps every original asset and Workshop mod intact — foveated rendering and depth reprojection make the Snapdragon port work.
iFixit’s September 23 Steam Frame teardown finds modular foams, a detachable headband, and serviceable optics — then hits glue on the 20.9 Wh battery and a hard-to-reach fan. No numeric repairability score.
Arcturus Vision’s $149 clip-on camera gives Valve’s Steam Frame HDR color passthrough and tracked spatial video. Valve lists it as Steam Frame Compatible.
Proton Experimental’s September 21 changelog pulls Wine Mono 11.3.0 — the project’s first ARM64 build — and Xalia 0.5.0 into the opt-in stack Steam Frame uses with FEX.
AstroBeam’s Stellar Cafe is live on Steam for PC, Deck, and Steam Frame at $9.99 — the same cut hits Quest. Voice-first robots, no dialogue trees.
Skarredghost’s Sep 21 XR Week Peek stacks Steam Frame review consensus against Quest 3 pricing, Snap Specs’ enterprise pivot, and Meta’s Luna–Phoenix Connect runway.
Scott Hayden’s September 21 guide puts Steam Frame with Quest 3 in a $1,700 enthusiast PC tier — and shows DIY builds costing more than prebuilts.
Valve’s SteamVR Hotfix 2.17.10 restores Motion Smoothing Force Always-On, closes two Linux AMD crash paths, defaults Steam Link CAS to off, and renames OpenXR bumper to shoulder.
Coal Car Studio’s asymmetrical party putter leaves Quest Early Access for a Steam 1.0 drop on September 22, already Steam Frame Verified with free phone saboteurs.
Zenni Optical is an authorized Valve Steam Frame Compatible provider for snap-in single-vision Rx inserts at $67.95, launching with Steam Frame purchase emails.