- The new valve helmet would cost $ 1,200 in a bundle
- The company would sell helmets at a loss
- Sources say you can play steam bridge games on it
The next VR VR helmet, named “Deckard”, would be launched towards the end of 2025 and would have cost $ 1,200, according to new claims of a well -known content creator.
According to Gabe Follower, a content designer with more than 200,000 subscribers on X, the new VR Valve Deckard helmet will be available as a full package for $ 1,200, which would include certain games, as well as the two “Roy” controllers. Despite the high price, it is said that it will be “sold at a loss” by Valve.
In addition to playing virtual reality games, we think that the helmet will also be able to play “flat games” similar to the steam game without any requirement for the use of a monitor or an external television. Gabe Follower claims that “Valve wants to offer the user the best possible experience without reducing costs”.
In addition, it was said that the models for “Roy” controllers were visible in an update Steamvr. Acrtained, the new VR helmet will support a modified version of Steamos as in the steam bridge, but adapted to a virtual reality experience. The controllers seem to delete the traditional design of the ring from the previous model of the company, the valve index, in favor of something closer to the meta quest 3.
As an autonomous device which can also be connected to a PC, we do not currently know what type of VR Helmet of Material Valve presents itself, with a few fears that it could have trouble reaching its 120 Hz refreshment rate with a claimed resolution of 1440p on two screens. Likewise, there was no mention of the battery life planned at that time.
Previously, in September 2023, Valve certified an unexpected material device in South Korea, and the company alluded to the next generation of its VR helmets. The Greg Coomer product designer said: “I can certainly say that we continue to develop recently VR headsets. Valve has a lot of expertise in VR and confidence in medium games and VR.”
The next generation will be expensive
While the PC valve index was launched at $ 999 in June 2019, the next VR autonomous deckard helmet seems to be more expensive at $ 1,200 for the “full bundle”. As an all-in-one appearance, its main competition will not come from high-end PC reality Reduction options such as HTC Vive Pro 2 and Pimax Crystal, but the tastes of Pico 4 and (especially) the Meta Quest 3, as well as the cheaper meta Quest 3.
Most autonomous helmets are considerably cheaper than the alleged price of the Deckard valve. For example, the Meta Quest 3 costs $ 499.99 for the 512 GB model, the Meta Quest 3S costing even less, from $ 299.99 for the 128 GB version. In addition, the Pico 4 Ultra, a mid-range all-in-one helmet, sells for the equivalent of $ 670, although it is not currently available in the United States.
This puts the next VR autonomous helmet in a difficult market where it is a high -end helmet intended mainly for PC players which also costs double (or triple) most of its competition. Although its features (doubly as a portable steam bridge) seem intriguing, it is an incredibly high price requested given the current state of the market, eclipizing all the general public options available at the moment.
We will not know if the Deckard valve is worth it until we saw it in action or tests it ourselves, so it is too early to judge its qualities according to rumor than rumor. However, taking into account that it costs more than the $ 200 index (and much more now since sales) and many of its competitors, it seems to be a niche product for a smaller subset of PC players who also want to play a premium for the use of portable steam bridge, when they probably already have the laptop in their homes at the start.
That said, it could be a shattered success as an encompassing solution to replace monitors and televisions if you are someone who lives in a cramped space. As we have seen with the dazzling elevation of Steam Deck in the past three years, with the now incredibly fierce competition, the deckard could do something that is done and ends up being imitated and innovated by others. If this should happen, however, it will have to offer a PDSF much lower than what is alleged here.
