Steam Frame - Hacker News

Posted by Philpax 11/12/2025

Steam Frame(store.steampowered.com)

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reactordev 11/12/2025||

These links open Steam app on my phone and crash immediately.

Ciantic 11/12/2025||

What the, this link also crashes KDE Plasma, when opening this link with Google Chrome. I had to reboot two times, just clicking this frame link.

Both times, first journalctl entry in the crash time is:

[drm:__nv_drm_gem_nvkms_map [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to map NvKmsKapiMemory 0x0000000070a84e8b

Then KWIN dump etc.

Reminding me to buy AMD next.

reactordev 11/12/2025||

This is due to a video that has drm encoding and the browser trying to decode it. The drm blob contains the codec keys in our driver and the browser is supposed to negotiate this. It fails. At least on Nvidia for you. It fails for me on safari on iOS.

seba_dos1 11/13/2025||

DRM in context of that log message is Direct Rendering Manager which is a Linux subsystem for handling GPUs; it's unrelated to Digital Rights/Restrictions Management and there are no DRM-encumbered videos on that page.

archi42 11/12/2025|||

Same here. Also happens when navigating there from within the all.

Open the website in your browser instead.

reactordev 11/12/2025||

Crashes in the browser as well. Good job Valve.

RGBCube 11/12/2025||

Finally, a modern VR headset that doesn't hate you.

tripdout 11/13/2025||

> Steam Frame is a PC: ... Just like any SteamOS device, install your own apps, open a browser, do what you want: It's your PC.

Always glad to see this.

theoldgreybeard 11/12/2025||

Wow was absolutely not expecting this. I need this.

dcchambers 11/13/2025||

This is so much more interesting than the Apple Vision Pro/Quest for one main reason: An open builder-friendly platform.

coopykins 11/13/2025||

It's the first VR device I consider buying.

pierrec 11/12/2025||

The death of VR has been greatly exaggerated. The only thing that died is the hype, and the hype will not be missed. It's just nice to have so much less bullshit.

SparkBomb 11/12/2025||

They have been trying to make VR thing since the 90s. It has never reached mass appeal and never will.

I can't wear one of those headset (I get severe motion sickness).

lopis 11/12/2025||

Meta and Apple smothered VR almost to death. Valve is coming to set VR free.

PaulKeeble 11/12/2025|

Little disappointing its not got colour passthrough. I am not convinced this generation of headsets will really be the ones that AR breaks through but still its a bit disappointing and has been useful with the latest Quest headsets. Other than that it looks fairly solid.

wlesieutre 11/12/2025|

It was noted in some articles that the "expansion port" could hypothetically be used for a color passthrough module later. But I also read that the Index had a similar port and never did much of anything with it, so that may never happen.

Definitely a cost measure to not include color passthrough, I'm not in the market to replace my Quest 3S but I'm very curious to see what price they hit with this.

Nice that it has a microSD slot so you can buy the low storage on and not be stuck with 256 GB forever.

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