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.
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.
Valve’s October 2 Proton Experimental entry adds early 32-bit OpenXR support, but only on x86 and only with PROTON_USE_WOW64=1, a variable missing from the README’s options table. No game, figures, or stable date are given.
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.
Schell Games declared I Expect You To Die 2 and 3 Steam Frame Verified on October 1. The sequel got a two-line patch; Cog in the Machine moved to OpenXR and Unity 6 with fixes for wide-FOV headsets.