{"id":397308,"date":"2025-09-04T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397308\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:08:10","slug":"steam-frame-trademark-registered-by-valve-is-this-deckard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397308\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Frame Trademark Registered By Valve: Is This Deckard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve applied for a trademark on the term ‘Steam Frame’.<\/p>\n

First listed publicly this week, the name Steam Frame<\/a> is to be used for “Computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.”<\/p>\n

Over the past four years Valve has repeatedly<\/a> confirmed<\/a> that it’s working on a new headset, strongly hinting<\/a> that 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 “Roy” controller models<\/a> were discovered late last year.<\/p>\n

Will Deckard be called Steam Frame when it ships?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Valve Index VR headset shipped in 2019<\/a> for $1000 for the full bundle, plus a PC capable of driving it. The bundle currently shows as out of stock, and as of August 2025, it accounted for 13% of the headsets<\/a> in use on Steam. The Valve-backed HTC Vive, shipped in 2016, is still in use by 3% of the market after nearly a decade of consumer VR.<\/p>\n

While Index released in 2019, Half-Life: Alyx didn’t make it out the door<\/a> until 2020. Bringing Valve’s level of polish and quality to a virtual world with cool mechanics around every corner was a landmark moment for PC VR, but that was half a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, since shortly after the release of Quest 2, standalone headsets linking to PCs for VR have taken up much of the SteamVR market, overshadowing single-mode headsets like the Index, Vive and many other devices that could only run when tethered to a powerful PC.<\/p>\n

Is Valve planning Steam Frame to deliver some of the company’s core VR experience in standalone? Or will it double down on the PC, providing a streamlined wireless experience?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Valve\u2019s New Headset Design Is \u201cAmazing\u201d, Lynx Founder Says<\/p>\n

The founder of Lynx says that the design of Valve\u2019s next headset, codenamed Deckard, \u201cis quite amazing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The URL steamframe.com was registered in April 2019, around the time of the reveal of the Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve applied for a trademark on the term ‘Steam Frame’. First listed publicly this week, the name Steam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-397308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146189276560573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}