Valve's Steam Frame headset launch shows strong demand with over 40,000 signups, but only 19,000 people have secured reservations while the rest await backorder fulfillment. The company is deliberately managing supply through a randomized reservation system to prevent scalping and gauge actual demand before committing to large-scale production.
Valve has open-sourced Lepton, a tool designed to help game developers port VR Android games to the Steam platform. The tool provides minimal functionality focused specifically on enabling game launches rather than general Android support.
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset, running Linux on ARM64 architecture, prompted the developer to port Factorio to ARM64 Linux. The process required setting up cross-compilation from x86 to ARM64 using Clang, obtaining system files via debootstrap, and building dependencies like OpenSSL for the new platform.