Poke

I love VR and technology behind it. I'm a big fan of valve.
I am a big headphone enthusiast.

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

STEAM FRAME UPDATE

It looks like SteamOS Manager is getting final updates for Steam Frame support!

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Valve turns 30 today, marking three decades since Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company in 1996.

Valve started as a game developer and became one of the biggest forces in PC gaming with Steam.

30 years of Valve and still no Half-Life 3

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

Spigen Steam Frame controller grips now available in the US with product photos 👀

[Poke @dark2d_y]

@Reilapard

[Poke @dark2d_y]

@Reilapard

[5 fps bellhop @baronessawaits]

nuke at the club #nukeattheclub

[ImaSpaceKat @imaspacekat]

Taking Fairfax Industries was the easy part?

#batcase #deadlock

[‎Gabe Follower @gabefollower]

Valve just uploaded eight Steam Frame introduction videos to the backend, including guides on how to install ergonomic mask and handstraps similar to Valve Index Controllers.

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

STEAM FRAME UPDATE

Steam Frame’s Wireless Adapter can utilize both your home WiFi and the dongle’s connection simultaneously to maximize connection performance.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Fairphones lack the updates and hardware-based security features expected by GrapheneOS.

They're missing hardware security features needed to provide strong encryption for the vast majority of users not using a very strong passphrase. They're similarly missing hardware-based protections heavily used in GrapheneOS to protect from exploitation including remote attacks.

Fairphones have atrocious updates, privacy and security. They lag many months and even years behind on providing crucial standard privacy and security patches. They've failed to respond to the discovery of severe security issues including multiple of their devices using publicly available private keys for signing.

Fairphone lags months behind on providing Android Security Bulletin patches which are themselves delayed by months compared to when OEMs are first provided and allowed to ship the patches. They lag a year or more behind on major OS updates and count this as additional support time compared to other OEMs. For example, a final major OS update being delayed for 3 years is marketed as providing 3 more years of support compared to shipping it on time.

Fairphone 5 and earlier have an end-of-life kernel branch and the same fate awaits the Fairphone 6. Pixels move to newer kernel branches and are currently moving to 6.12 and then on to 6.18. Other OEMs are also beginning to use newer kernels and move to new branches. Linux LTS branches are only going to have 2 years of support going forward.

Fairphones are designed and assembled by an ODM. Fairphone has very limited involvement in engineering the devices. The working conditions and supply chain are also largely up to T2Mobile rather than Fairphone. Whether either of those are better than Pixels or especially iPhones should be demonstrated with evidence. There's extremely little information available on the working conditions, pay and other aspects of the assembly and supply chain for Fairphones.

Fairphone replaced their own open source OS without Google Mobile Services with /e/ as part of a close partnership with Murena. /e/ and Murena have repeatedly claimed highly private and secure devices mainly benefit criminals and pedophiles along with peddling other authoritarian talking points. They've falsely claimed GrapheneOS devices are mainly used by criminals and aren't useful to regular people. Fairphone has chosen to stand with this company included when contacted by the media about criticism.

https://t.co/BWM15UuiuU

https://t.co/QmrgmbRyVa

Despite the marketing, /e/ has very poor privacy and security. /e/ has their own invasive services with tracking, gives highly privileged access to default enabled Google services and doesn't keep up with basic updates. It greatly rolls back privacy and security compared to the Android Open Source Project.

https://t.co/4ntrvMGkFA

https://t.co/zEdqfnCH36

https://t.co/uWVPGoiEUs

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Gabe Newell has made a rare appearance to present The International 2026, and he looks so good

Valve co-founder talks about how much Dota 2 and The International have changed since the tournament first started 15 years ago.

Newell hasn’t attended The International in person since 2019

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

STEAM FRAME UPDATE:

The ARM Steam Client had an update this morning that contained these videos. It was quickly pulled after that, but of course people managed to grab them. These are videos that detail the unboxing, sign-in, and setup of the Steam Frame.

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

STEAM FRAME UPDATE

Steam Frame ARM64 Compat List just got multiple updates and is no longer private. It also was just added to the Steam app.

[울새(ulsae) @ulsae1995]

Someone actually made Devotee Victor skin mod! Huge thanks to Beyonx!

https://t.co/3fIQV0xrZn

[Chris Mizo @MizoChris]

⚠️ Pure speculation, but has anyone else noticed this pattern with Valve?

The Steam Controller was announced the moment the Steam Medieval Fest ended.

The Steam Machine was announced the moment Steam Next Fest ended.

Now Steam Train Fest ends on Monday, July 27 at 10 AM PT… the exact same time Valve has made these previous hardware announcements.

• Steam Medieval Fest ended ➡️ Steam Controller announced
• Steam Next Fest ended ➡️ Steam Machine announced
• Steam Train Fest ends Monday, July 27 at 10 AM PT
• Valve has been ramping up SteamVR activity and hardware shipments recently
• There is absolutely no confirmation this means anything.

Again, this is just speculation based on timing,
not a leak or insider information.

It could be nothing at all… but if Valve follows the same pattern for a third time, July 27 could end up being a very interesting day. 🤔

[MastaMunsta @MunstaMasta]

Good night

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

Ancient Dungeon VR shared info about the their enabling of Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering on Steam Frame

“GPU frametimes dropped from ~9.5ms to ~6.0ms (55% potential fps improvement)

It allows us to run at either higher framerates or resolution without impacting visual quality”

[Brian Lindenhof @TheShadowBrain]

A lot of people forget the Steam Frame is running a proper PC OS, you can do stuff like this entirely self-contained with no PC connection at all, just some chromium windows on-device.
Doing stuff like this is some of my favorite casual VR use.
I hope it releases soon!