this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2026
26 points (90.6% liked)

Steam Hardware

23615 readers
164 users here now

A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Link to our Matrix Space

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I’m so ootl cause I never really bothered with vr but I wanted to get the frame. Now I just discovered that apparently valve dabbled in vr already and I Read about the Index in some titles which got me confused. Why Are people so keenly interested in the Frame when the Index already exists? For what reason would one get over the other?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 27 points 1 month ago

Valve Index is a traditional PC-VR headset. It's always tethered to a computer and it needs Lighthouse basestations set up in the room. Meanwhile, the Frame can run some games standalone without a PC, has wireless streaming for when you do play on your PC and uses inside-out tracking without the need for basestations.