Valve’s rumored standalone XR headset, codenamed ‘Deckard’, is virtually the stuff of legend at this level, with hypothesis brewing since information miners first found point out of the alleged gadget in January 2021. Now, leaker and information miner ‘Gabe Follower’ maintains Deckard is coming by the tip of 2025, priced at $1,200.
Gabe Follower, who additionally runs a YouTube channel, experiences in an X publish that “[s]everal folks have confirmed that Valve is aiming to launch new standalone, wi-fi VR headset (codename Deckard) by the tip of 2025. The present worth for the total bundle is about to be $1200,” they are saying within the X publish.
Gabe Follower additionally maintains Valve can also be set to ship video games or demos “which are already finished” particularly for Deckard.
Notably, that $1,200 worth level “shall be bought at a loss,” Gabe Follower maintains, who posits Deckard will use the identical SteamOS as seen in Steam Deck, Valve’s handheld, albeit tailored for VR.
“One of many core options is the power to play flat-screen recreation[s] which are already playable on Steam Deck, however in VR on a giant display screen and not using a PC,” Gabe Follower claims, additional noting behind-closed-door displays may begin quickly.
Whereas all leaks must be taken with a grain of salt, Gabe Follower has precisely leaked plenty of Valve-specific initiatives previously, together with leaks on Counter-Strike, Half-Life, and Valve’s upcoming PC shooter MOBA, Impasse.
Even when the leak was extra of a shot at midnight than insider data as such, it’s clear Valve is getting ready one thing associated to XR. In November 2024, leaked 3D fashions hidden in a SteamVR replace appeared to point out off a brand new VR movement controller, codenamed ‘Roy’.
Departing from commonplace VR movement controller layouts, Roy seems to supply extra of conventional gamepad-style button format, which might make flatscreen gameplay (in a digital surroundings) a 1:1 enter expertise with Steam Deck.
Successive rumors preserve Deckard might embrace PC VR wi-fi streaming capabilities, eye-tracking, in addition to passthrough AR options, probably placing it in competitors with Meta Quest and/or Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
