Valve has just announced the Steam Frame, its new VR headset that can play games streamed directly from your PC using a dedicated streaming stick and run Windows games locally thanks to an Arm chip in the headset itself. At the same time, Valve is also moving on from its previous VR headset, the Valve Index, which it’s “no longer manufacturing,” designer Lawrence Yang tells The Verge.

The Index, a high-end headset that had to be tethered to your PC to work and used external “lighthouse” base stations for tracking, was released in 2019. In her review, my colleague Adi Robertson praised its visuals and its controllers, though dinged it for its $999 cost.

But corded headsets have also fallen out of favor since then. Meta has sold tens of millions of its standalone Quest VR headsets that can

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