{"id":500657,"date":"2026-06-15T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500657\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:54:08","slug":"vrchat-devs-prepare-for-steam-frame-launch-this-summer-with-standalone-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500657\/","title":{"rendered":"VRChat devs prepare for Steam Frame launch this summer with standalone build"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You don\u2019t actually need a VR headset to play VRChat, but it has long been one of the most popular VR titles, consisting of millions of custom avatars and (at least) thousands of user-generated worlds. With the Steam Frame<\/a> soon on the way \u2013 now officially coming this summer<\/a> \u2013 the VRChat devs have uploaded another version for playing on the headset standalone.<\/p>\n

The game is already available on Steam as a Windows x86 build, and there\u2019s no doubt that the Frame will work well with the VR title, thanks to Valve\u2019s use of compatibility layers such as Proton and FEX<\/a>. The latter is used for running Windows games on ARM-based devices like the Steam Frame. Either way, VRChat\u2019s Android version is now on Steam for even more support.<\/p>\n

VRChat\u2019s Android version has been uploaded to Steam<\/p>\n

As spotted in a recent update in VRChat\u2019s app history on SteamDB<\/a>, the developers of VRChat have uploaded an Android Package Kit (.apk) to the Steam version of the game, along with support for OpenXR. To put it simply, the game will be well supported on the Steam Frame in standalone mode, without requiring you to connect to another gaming machine.<\/p>\n

VRChat is already available on the Google Play Store for Android devices \u2013 Meta Quests<\/a> run on a modified version of Android, if you didn\u2019t know \u2013 so this is a build of the game that is already ready to go. <\/p>\n

Since the Steam Frame can load .apk files, it makes sense for this update to be specifically targeting Valve\u2019s new VR headset. Android performance should be smoother than Windows due to the OS being more optimized for the ARM architecture.<\/p>\n

\"\"Source: SteamDB<\/p>\n

In the same vein that Proton runs Windows games on Linux, and FEX runs Windows games on ARM devices, Valve has a compatibility layer for Android games on Linux, officially known as Lepton<\/a>. As such, it seems the most efficient way to run these games standalone on the Steam Frame, which is powered by an ARM-based Snapdragon Gen 3 chip, is with an .apk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PC Guide is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,60,80,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-500657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}