A Valve leaker claims the Valve Deckard headset is about to launch by the tip of this 12 months at $1200, together with first-party “video games or demos”.
The leaker, referred to as Gabe Follower, has efficiently revealed the existence and particulars of a number of Valve tasks up to now, together with Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) and Impasse.
Now, in a put up on X, Gabe Follower claims “a number of folks” have “confirmed” that Valve goals to launch its wi-fi standalone headset working SteamOS, codenamed Deckard, by the tip of this 12 months, with a “present” goal worth of $1200 for the complete bundle, which is able to embody first-party “video games or demos”. Apparently, they declare this $1200 worth will see the product offered at a loss, suggesting Valve intends to pack high-end parts and specs into Deckard.
A number of 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 complete bundle is about to be $1200. Together with some “in-house” video games (or demos) which can be already carried out. Valve wish to give… pic.twitter.com/alHzQuwNvc
— Gabe Follower (@gabefollower) February 26, 2025
The claimed leak comes three months after fashions of Deckard’s “Roy” controllers had been found in SteamVR driver information, revealing their design and inputs. The fashions included bumpers and a D-pad, suggesting the Roy controllers can act as a gamepad for flatscreen gaming. Gabe Follower claims this capacity is a “core characteristic” of Deckard, and doesn’t require a PC, with the flatscreen video games working onboard.
Roy is nearly definitely a reference to the antagonist of the film Blade Runner, whereby Deckard is the protagonist.
Valve Deckard ‘Roy’ Controller Fashions Found In SteamVR
Fashions of Valve Deckard’s ‘Roy’ controllers had been found in SteamVR driver information, revealing their design and inputs.
That Valve is engaged on a brand new headset was not a rumor, even earlier than the controllers leaked. The corporate has repeatedly confirmed it over the previous three years.
In December 2021, effectively over a 12 months after the launch of Index, Valve President Gabe Newell stated the corporate was “making large investments in new headsets”.
In October 2022, Valve posted a job itemizing for a pc imaginative and prescient engineer to assist “prototype, ship, and assist” a VR headset for “tens of millions of shoppers world-wide“, with inside-out monitoring, digicam passthrough, surroundings understanding, eye monitoring, and hand monitoring. And in December 2022 Valve product designer Greg Coomer informed a Korean gaming information journal the corporate has been “engaged on a brand new VR headset recently”, and that there are “a number of tasks happening in-house”.
Most just lately, in November 2023 Valve strongly hinted that the headset would concentrate on wi-fi VR streaming out of your PC, one thing that datamining had already urged.
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Index reaching six years outdated in June, and its SteamVR utilization share has been steadily declining since launch of Quest 3. Valve followers have been crying out for a successor, and lots of within the business have hoped it to be a standalone direct competitor to Quest 3. Whether or not or not Deckard focuses on standalone VR or wi-fi PC VR, although, stays to be seen.
We’ll maintain a detailed eye on the Valve leaker group, and the corporate itself, within the coming weeks and months for any additional hints of a possible 2025 launch of Deckard.
