A Valve leaker claims the Valve Deckard headset is ready to launch by the tip of this 12 months at $1200, together with first-party “video games or demos”.
The leaker, often known as Gabe Follower, has efficiently revealed particulars of a number of unannounced Valve initiatives prior to now, together with Counter-Strike 2 and Impasse.
Now, in a submit on X, Gabe Follower claims “a number of folks” have “confirmed” that Valve goals to launch its wi-fi standalone headset operating SteamOS, codenamed Deckard, by the tip of this 12 months, with a “present” goal worth of $1200 for the total bundle, which is able to embrace 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 total bundle is ready to be $1200. Together with some “in-house” video games (or demos) which are already carried out. Valve need 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 recordsdata, 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 means is a “core function” of Deckard, and doesn’t require a PC, with the flatscreen video games operating 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 recordsdata, revealing their design and inputs.
That Valve is engaged on a brand new headset was not only a rumor, even earlier than the controllers leaked. The corporate has repeatedly confirmed it over the previous three years.
In December 2021, properly over a 12 months after the launch of Index, Valve President Gabe Newell mentioned the corporate was “making huge investments in new headsets”.
In October 2022, Valve posted a job itemizing for a pc imaginative and prescient engineer to assist “prototype, ship, and help” a VR headset for “thousands and thousands of shoppers world-wide“, with inside-out monitoring, digicam passthrough, setting understanding, eye monitoring, and hand monitoring. And in December 2022 Valve product designer Greg Coomer advised a Korean gaming information journal the corporate has been “engaged on a brand new VR headset recently”, and that there are “a number of initiatives happening in-house”.
Most lately, in November 2023 Valve strongly hinted that the headset would deal with wi-fi VR streaming out of your PC, one thing that datamining had already instructed.
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Index will probably be six years previous in June, and its SteamVR utilization share has been steadily declining for the reason that launch of Quest 3. Valve followers have been crying out for a successor, and plenty of within the trade 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 hold an in depth eye on the Valve leaker neighborhood, and the corporate itself, within the coming weeks and months for any additional hints of a possible 2025 launch of Deckard.
