Steam Frame Listing Spotted on Qualcomm Device Finder Page, Revealing That its Using a Snapdragon Processor

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Another day, another tease regarding the potential upcoming launch of Valve’s wireless VR headset, the Steam Frame. This time around, inspirational hope for a near release comes via Qualcomm’s Device Finder, which has listed the Steam Frame’s CPU. Valve has designed the Steam Frame not only for gaming but also as a VR solution for […]

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[Grimlakin]

Huh that's interesting... I was kind of expecting an AMD SOC.

 

[Uvilla]

So i take it the frame will work with the box, or whatever its called?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

So i take it the frame will work with the box, or whatever its called?

It is streaming first, so yes. Steam Machine affectionately known as the Gabe Cube, should be the center of the ecosystem. Stream games to your Valve devices, or play in lower quality on that device. I suspect the cube's hardware, running the custom optimized SteamOS, will punch above its weight compared to windows performance.

Obviously, your present PC will work for streaming too.

Huh that's interesting... I was kind of expecting an AMD SOC.

I was also a bit surprised when someone on AT told us about it a ways back. It probably made the most sense for the battery life and advertised use cases?

 

[Uvilla]

That may be a worthwhile setup. A frame and a gabe cube should be a lot of fun.
I had a deck for a while, something happened to it, it died, so that sucked, i had it hooked up to a monitor and all that. Meh, i may look into the gabe cube and the frame idk.