"You can think of the just-announced Steam Frame as a wireless VR headset for your PC, or a Steam Deck for your face. But another way to think about it is that Valve is finally entering the mobile realm. The Frame doesn't just run Windows games on its Arm-based Qualcomm Snapdragon chip - Valve will now support and encourage developers to bring their Android apps to Steam as well."
"It'll try to make some of them first-class citizens, too, Valve engineer Jeremy Selan tells The Verge. "From the user's perspective, our preference is that they don't even have to think about it, they just have their titles on Steam, they download them and hit play.""
"Valve says the Steam Frame can use the same Android APKs developers already use to bring their apps to phones and Android-based VR headsets such as the Meta Quest - and it's launching a Steam Frame developer kit program to help put the hardware in developers' hands."
Steam Frame is a wireless VR headset for PCs that Valve positions as a Steam Deck for the face. The device uses an Arm-based Qualcomm Snapdragon to run Windows games and will also support Android applications on Steam. Valve will accept the same Android APKs used for phones and Android VR headsets like Meta Quest. A Steam Frame developer kit program will distribute hardware to developers. Valve intends to make Android VR titles seamless to users, aiming for downloadable Steam listings that launch without extra configuration, and is targeting VR developers from existing Android headset platforms.
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