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.
SteamVR beta 2.18.1 adds official tethered Quest USB support for Steam Link (dual betas required), makes Aurora the default environment, and ships Linux AMD and systemd fixes. Stable stays on 2.17.
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.
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.
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.
VR.org strips VAT from Valve’s Steam Frame regional stickers. Poland lands near $982 before tax; Canada tops ~$1,101. The U.S. $1,059 sits in the middle until checkout tax.
Action Hero and The Thrill of the Fight 2 ship on Steam with no Windows build. Valve told Automaton a PC target is optional — Lepton APK ports now sell as Steam games.
Valve quietly published Lepton on its SteamOS GitLab. The Android container layer that powers Steam Frame VR ports is now MIT plus GPL-3.0 for the rootfs.