Steampowered Speculation

UNOFFICIAL news, speculation, and fan posting regarding Steam, Valve, and anything in between! This is a fan account, meaning I’ll be posting fan stuff here.

[Steampowered Speculation @SteampoweredNW]

The Summer Sale has begun! On from now until July 9th. Happy saving!

https://t.co/aOs0ZxmWrL

[Steam @Steam]

The fantastic art for this sale was created by @thetiffopotamus, with animations by @thanhuki! Need more from this adorable duo? Head to the Points Shop: https://t.co/kbdjRzw5zB

[The Photoshop Guy @Photoshop_Gy]

Highly intelligent supercomputers will see this, and will still ask if you're coming to Test tomorrow?

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

Steam Frame specific changes are being merged into SteamOS 3.9

Very similarly how Steam Machine support was added to 3.8 leading up to its launch

[Chris Mizo @MizoChris]

More fresh SHIPMENTS of Virtual Reality devices from Valve?

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

CHECK YOUR EMAILS!!!

You will either have an email that you’re in the reservation queue ror Steam Machine (which means you’ll get an email to order yours soon) OR an email that you’re in the waitlist (which means you’ll have to wait)

[‎Gabe Follower @gabefollower]

A tour of Gabe Newell's new 111-metre superyacht, the Leviathan, revealed that the owner made an unusual request to replace the traditional upper deck saloon with a high-tech gaming room.

"We designed the gaming table and collaborated with the owner's IT specialists to integrate equipment including ceiling cameras and a projector for holograms and virtual reality. The table is surrounded by gaming chairs".

They even included a photo of a group of people playing Counter-Strike 2 in the ocean.

Source: @boatint

[Steampowered Speculation @SteampoweredNW]

@WardeN47256938 @gabefollower (That's probably a horrible way of explaining this, that's just the understanding I've had for the past few years.)

[Steampowered Speculation @SteampoweredNW]

@WardeN47256938 @gabefollower Source 2, unlike its predecessor, shares engine versions between games. The more games are updated at the engine core, the more likely things from other projects might slip in, due to them using the same version, rather than branching like Source 1 did.

[‎Gabe Follower @gabefollower]

New mention of a project called HLX (rumored to be Half-Life 3) in the latest Dota 2 engine update.

[Steampowered Speculation @SteampoweredNW]

Incredibly insane deal on Alyx, by far the best VR game I’ve ever played. Give it a buy if you’re interested!

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Half-Life: Alyx is $14.99 on Steam https://t.co/Jmn4p81p7i

[Steam @Steam]

The Steam Summer Sale is here! ☀️ For the next two weeks, discover thousands of discounts, take a gander through your Discovery Queue to meet new games and stickers, and check out new Points Shop items to match the summer vibes. Now until July 9!

https://t.co/4TuWeBEkZO

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

Valve added Steam Frame’s input tutorial UX for SteamVR Home

BUT Interestingly enough, they also switched off the default setting of you launching into SteamVR Home when SteamVR first boots up

[Steampowered Speculation @SteampoweredNW]

@HardwareSteam People haven't even gotten their hands on the machine yet 😭

[‎Gabe Follower @gabefollower]

Valve pushed an update to Steam Frame private beta for developers with an interesting string: "Unclaimed Content".

"You have additional unclaimed content for this game. You can see more information and claim this content at any time by clicking the button below."

Source: @Lifeismana

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

Steam Frame has its own dedicated “Performance Settings” located in the Quick Access Menu UI (just like the Steam Deck equivalent)

The settings include eye tracked foveated rendering (if available) and tweaks for ARM Memory compatibility

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

Steam Frame has been added to Valve’s Compliance Documentation BUT only currently in Traditional Chinese.

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

The three types of PCVR Connection Statuses for Steam Frame:

Connected to your Home Network or Standard Router

Connected to the Dedicated Steam Frame Dongle

Connected to the PC via a Wired USB Cable (probably similar to Oculus PC Link… or whatever the hell they call it now)

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

Valve is preparing Pyrowave video encoding for Steam Link

Pyrowave is a really fast/low-latency GPU encoder that is entirely based on Vulkan. And was designed strictly for streaming Games

WiVRn, an open source wireless PCVR streaming app, has also been using this experimentally

[Steam Hardware Updates @HardwareSteam]

Yet another Steam Frame Wireless Adapter Driver update!