{"id":199338,"date":"2025-10-09T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199338\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:07:07","slug":"valves-next-headset-reportedly-enters-mass-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199338\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve’s Next Headset Reportedly Enters Mass Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve’s next headset has entered mass production and will ship this year, a Chinese analyst group claims.<\/p>\n

The group, which calls itself XR Research Institute, claims that the launch is set for this year, and estimates a production run of 400,000 to 600,000 units per year.<\/p>\n

For comparison, that’s roughly the production scale of Apple Vision Pro. Meanwhile, 2.5 million people have unlocked the achievement for completing the Quest 3 and Quest 3S introductory mixed reality experience after two years, and Quest 2 sold north of 20 million<\/a> units.<\/p>\n

As another point of comparison, estimates peg Steam Deck at around 5 million units after almost four years.<\/p>\n

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Valve Deckard \u2018Roy\u2019 Controller Models Discovered In SteamVR<\/p>\n

Models of Valve Deckard\u2019s \u2018Roy\u2019 controllers were discovered in SteamVR driver files, revealing their design and inputs.<\/p>\n

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That Valve is working on a new headset is not merely a rumor. Over the past four years the company has repeatedly<\/a>\u00a0confirmed<\/a>\u00a0it,\u00a0strongly hinting<\/a>\u00a0that it will have a focus on wireless streaming from your PC. In this time, many references to a Valve headset called “Deckard” have been found in the code of SteamVR, and Touch-like “Roy”\u00a0controller models<\/a>\u00a0were discovered late last year.<\/p>\n

Last month Valve applied for a trademark<\/a> on the term “Steam Frame”, which dataminers have also discovered throughout SteamVR code, strongly suggesting that this could be the product name for Deckard.<\/p>\n

We’ll continue to keep a close eye on leakers, dataminers, and Valve itself for any further hints of what might be the imminent launch of the most anticipated VR headset in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve’s next headset has entered mass production and will ship this year, a Chinese analyst group claims. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-199338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}