"The new headset is called the Steam Frame, and it's trying to do several things at once. It's a standalone VR headset with a smartphone-caliber Arm chip inside that lets you play flat-screen Windows games locally off the onboard storage or a microSD card. But the Frame's arguably bigger trick is that it can stream games directly to the headset, bypassing your unreliable home Wi-Fi by using a short-range, high-bandwidth wireless dongle that plugs into your gaming PC."
"The pitch: Either locally or over streaming, you can play every game in your Steam library on this lightweight headset, no cord required. I think Valve may be on to something. As I explored an industrial level in Half-Life: Alyx, jumping from floor to floor and blasting headcrabs, I couldn't tell at all that the game was being streamed to me from a nearby PC. I felt like I was playing it through a hardwired connection or natively on the headset itself."
Valve's Steam Frame combines a standalone VR headset with a smartphone-caliber Arm chip and onboard or microSD storage for playing flat-screen Windows games locally. The headset can also stream PC games using a short-range 6GHz wireless dongle that plugs into a gaming PC, designed to provide low latency, high bandwidth, and robustness. New controllers include numerous buttons and inputs to support both flat-screen and VR gameplay. The headset is lightweight and cordless, aiming to run an entire Steam library either locally or via high-quality streaming. Demonstrations conveyed seamless streaming and near-native responsiveness.
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