Valve closed an ARM64 Remote Play AV1 bug by pointing to a 2015 request, days after enabling the FEX code cache in Proton Experimental for ARM, the path Steam Frame uses for Windows games.
Three Steam Frame owners report the native Linux build of Half-Life: Alyx exits when barnacle blood spray fills the view. Valve’s only reply this weekend closed a different Alyx crash as a duplicate of an issue open since 2020.
The unofficial Steam Frame companion app shipped three releases in about 20 hours. v0.1.5 rotates tokens and blocks off-network connections, but the headset-to-phone link is still unencrypted.
Two Steam Frame owners report the Chaperone boundary grid stops appearing while streaming from a PC. A Valve developer has asked for reproduction steps; no defect has been confirmed.
One Hamsa says Valve asked for a day-one Steam Frame port of Underdogs. The Frame build is live without multiplayer; H3VR’s Frame patch is still on the experimental branch.
Valve’s SteamVR 2.18.1 beta revised proprietary driver interfaces and Steam Link OSC output without noting either change — breaking at least one paid add-on while the USB Quest tether headlines the same build.
Valve’s SteamOS 3.9.2 beta fixes the frame limiter incorrectly applying to VR titles streamed from a Steam Machine to a Steam Frame, and restores Remote Play on headless Machines.
A September 27 GIGAZINE unboxing puts a retail Steam Frame on the scale at 438 grams, maps glasses clearance, and shows the modular strap owners will actually handle.
Valve published frame-public/lepton on GitLab: a non-root Android container that runs Android-exclusive VR games on Steam Frame / Linux via the Steam client — built for developers porting titles, not general Android use.
Valve’s opt-in Steam Frame OS beta defaults spectator view to smoothed output, adds Dominant Eye selection, and bundles SteamVR 2.18.1 — with a companion client update for streaming color and battery percent.