Valve utilized for a trademark on the time period ‘Steam Body’.
First listed publicly this week, the title Steam Body is for use for “Pc {hardware}; pc networking {hardware}; pc peripherals; pc {hardware} and pc software program for the replica, processing, and streaming of audio, video, knowledge, textual content, and multimedia content material.”
Over the previous 4 years Valve has repeatedly confirmed that it is engaged on a brand new headset, strongly hinting that it’s going to have a concentrate on wi-fi streaming out of your PC. On this time, many references to a Valve headset referred to as “Deckard” have been discovered within the code of SteamVR, and “Roy” controller fashions had been found late final yr.
Will Deckard be referred to as Steam Body when it ships?
Valve Deckard ‘Roy’ Controller Fashions Found In SteamVR
Fashions of Valve Deckard’s ‘Roy’ controllers had been found in SteamVR driver recordsdata, revealing their design and inputs.
The Valve Index VR headset shipped in 2019 for $1000 for the total bundle, plus a PC able to driving it. The bundle at the moment reveals as out of inventory, and as of August 2025, it accounted for 13% of the headsets in use on Steam. The Valve-backed HTC Vive, shipped in 2016, remains to be in use by 3% of the market after almost a decade of client VR.
Whereas Index launched in 2019, Half-Life: Alyx did not make it out the door till 2020. Bringing Valve’s degree of polish and high quality to a digital world with cool mechanics round each nook was a landmark second for PC VR, however that was half a decade in the past.
In the meantime, since shortly after the discharge of Quest 2, standalone headsets linking to PCs for VR have taken up a lot of the SteamVR market, overshadowing single-mode headsets just like the Index, Vive and plenty of different units that might solely run when tethered to a strong PC.
Is Valve planning Steam Body to ship a few of the firm’s core VR expertise in standalone? Or will it double down on the PC, offering a streamlined wi-fi expertise?
Valve’s New Headset Design Is “Wonderful”, Lynx Founder Says
The founding father of Lynx says that the design of Valve’s subsequent headset, codenamed Deckard, “is kind of wonderful”.
The URL steamframe.com was registered in April 2019, across the time of the reveal of the Index.
