Valve May Be Working on an OLED Steam Frame, According to Datamined Source Code
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Valve May Be Working on an OLED Steam Frame, According to Datamined Source Code
The Steam Frame came out a month ago, and while it is one of the best PCVR headsets, its lenses weren't quite as high-quality as some of its competitors. However, it seems like Valve might be working on a mid-generation refresh with OLED optics.
Valve is reportedly developing an OLED panel for the Steam Frame, codenamed Plano, to improve resolution and refresh rate. Just over a month after its official release, Valve appears to have plans to further enhance the visual capabilities of the Steam Frame VR. According to the latest reports, the VR headset will receive an OLED panel upgrade, replacing the current LCD panel, bringing significant improvements to display quality and user comfort…
If you find the basic version too cheap for some reason, fear not, because Valve may have found a way to make the Steam Frame even more expensive.
A leak suggests that Valve would already be working on a new version of its Steam Frame, this time equipped with OLED screens, even microLED, with very high definition. The goal could be to attack, in particular, the Samsung Galaxy XR on the very high-end.
Steam Frame OLED Version Surfaces in Source Code, Suggesting a Possible Hardware Refresh
Valve’s Steam Frame is barely out the door, but now data mining has reportedly surfaced that an OLED version may already in the works. The News As reported by Steam Frame Hub, Valve may be working on a new version of Steam Frame, which much like Steam Deck, may include OLED panels instead of LCD. […]
The rumoured Steam Frame OLED would fix one of the Frame's minor weaknesses and do nothing for its major ones
Good catch by SteamFrameHub here: snippets of the recently released Steam Frame kernel source code contain references to a possible variant of Valve's new VR headset with upgraded OLED lenses. A failed prototype, ditched during development? Maybe not – one of the related code branches, which codename the device 'Planar,' was updated on October 2nd, weeks after the LCD-lensed Frame opened for reservations. There's details, too. The OLED lenses se…
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