A Valve leaker claims the Valve Deckard headset is ready to launch by the tip of this yr at $1200, together with first-party “video games or demos”.
The leaker, often called Gabe Follower, has efficiently revealed particulars of a number of unannounced Valve initiatives up to now, together with Counter-Strike 2 and Impasse.
Now, in a put up on X, Gabe Follower claims “a number of individuals” have “confirmed” that Valve goals to launch its wi-fi standalone headset working SteamOS, codenamed Deckard, by the tip of this yr, with a “present” goal value of $1200 for the total bundle, which is able to embody first-party “video games or demos”. Apparently, they declare this $1200 value will see the product bought at a loss, suggesting Valve intends to pack high-end parts and specs into Deckard.
A number of individuals have confirmed that Valve is aiming to launch new standalone, wi-fi VR headset (codename Deckard) by the tip of 2025. The present value for the total bundle is ready to be $1200. Together with some “in-house” video games (or demos) which might be already achieved. 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 have been found in SteamVR driver information, 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 capacity is a “core characteristic” of Deckard, and doesn’t require a PC, with the flatscreen video games working onboard.
Roy is nearly actually 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 have been found in SteamVR driver information, 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, effectively over a yr after the launch of Index, Valve President Gabe Newell stated the corporate was “making large investments in new headsets”.
In October 2022, Valve posted a job itemizing for a pc imaginative and prescient engineer to assist “prototype, ship, and assist” a VR headset for “tens of millions of shoppers world-wide“, with inside-out monitoring, digicam passthrough, atmosphere understanding, eye monitoring, and hand monitoring. And in December 2022 Valve product designer Greg Coomer instructed 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 just lately, in November 2023 Valve strongly hinted that the headset would give attention to wi-fi VR streaming out of your PC, one thing that datamining had already advised.
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Index can be six years outdated 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 lots of within the business 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 preserve an in depth eye on the Valve leaker group, and the corporate itself, within the coming weeks and months for any additional hints of a possible 2025 launch of Deckard.
