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Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

Also listed here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Valve has already sent support for the new Steam Controller upstream: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame for release in 2026. There is an image of a Steam Controller, which looks like a hybrid between the original Steam Controller and the layout and trackpads of the Steam Deck.
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[–] 103 points 11 months ago (17 children)

The VR headset is going to be standalone??

That's pretty nuts right?

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  • [–] 127 points 11 months ago* (9 children)

    even more nuts is that it will support pc games via FEX, an emulation layer that runs x86 windows games on ARM in Linux

    In addition to streaming from your battlestation

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Crazy...

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    But does it have a crazy price?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Im guessing Vive prices. Id be suprised at less than 1k, but no word on it yet.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Valve said they expect it to be cheaper than the Index, so it shouldn't be more than 1k

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Frankly it all three are logical next steps. With the way windows is going, valve needs to decouple it's store from the windows dependency. The deck was the tester, now we get the not so cheep next generation

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Any ideas on Linux support?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    pretty sure it’s SteamOS, an Arch Linux derivative, on a fairly popular Snapdragon platform. probably not too difficult to hack on it.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    It days right in the marketing text that the headset is "a PC" which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.

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