{"id":934277,"date":"2026-10-15T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934277\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:06:12","slug":"valve-is-building-a-deluxe-audio-strap-with-hot-swappable-battery-for-steam-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934277\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve is Building a Deluxe Audio Strap with Hot-swappable Battery for Steam Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were hoping for better audio and battery life from Valve\u2019s recently released Steam Frame, the company has confirmed it\u2019s creating a headstrap to solve just that.<\/p>\n

Valve confirmed with PC Gamer <\/a>(via Skarred Ghost<\/a>) that it\u2019s working on a new headstrap with hot-swappable batteries and Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) drivers which are said to match the off-ear speakers seen in Valve Index.<\/p>\n

Index, which was just discontinued<\/a>, has long been the audio bar for VR headsets since its release in 2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Valve Index | Courtesy Valve<\/p>\n

PC Gamer says the upgrade will be \u201cswap-in.\u201d Valve hasn\u2019t released any further info, however it\u2019s likely to make use of the display portion\u2019s ability to completely detach from the existing headstrap and facial interface.<\/p>\n

This is set to fix two real issues with Steam Frame at the moment: middling battery life, as it provides about 1-1.5 hours of mixed use, and the headset\u2019s built-in audio, which admittedly sounds quite good overall, but predictably lacks bass due to being integrated into the headset. You can learn more from our deep dive review of Steam Frame here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Road to VR<\/p>\n

Notably, Steam Frame lacks a 3.5mm headphone jack so you can\u2019t hardwire directly with your favorite wired cans, although you can alternatively use a USB-C to 3.5mmm adapter with built-in DAC, or Bluetooth headphones.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, Valve may be taking its sweet time to release, as backorders for Steam Frame have now stretched into 2027<\/a>. Beyond that tip-off in the PC Gamer article, the company hasn\u2019t given any indication of when the audio\/battery headstrap is coming, or at what price. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were hoping for better audio and battery life from Valve\u2019s recently released Steam Frame, the company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49,48,61,260,261,262],"class_list":["post-934277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}