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.
Valve closed SteamVR for Linux issue #1017 in about three and a half minutes, saying the current ALVR point release (v20.14.1, from July 2025) is not supportable on SteamVR’s side, and pointed the Steam Link VR half of the report to issue #1005.
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.
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.
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.