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  "id": 7364926,
  "title": "Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/steam-frame-review-another-best-in-class-vr-headset-by-valve-though",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-14T17:00:42.000Z",
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    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
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    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-frame-review"
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  "summary": "It’s a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one. The supply of original virtual reality games has slowed to a dribble, and just as with Valve’s last hardware launch, the Steam Frame arrives covered in bumps and scrapes from a fight with the worst components shortage in memory. A fight which, judging by how it’ll cost ya £889 / $1,059 at…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
        "title": "Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset opens for orders, with the cheapest model priced at a lenswatering £889 / $1,059",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/valves-steam-frame-vr-headset-opens-for-orders-with-the-cheapest",
        "published": "2026-09-14T17:00:41.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Review of Valve's Steam Frame: comfortable to wear, supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has short battery life (Sean Hollister/The Verge)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/review-of-valves-steam-frame-comfortable-to-wear-supports-multiple",
        "published": "2026-09-14T17:20:03.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Valve says the Steam Frame is priced at $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for the 1TB version, both of which come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx (Adam Vjestica/The Shortcut)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/valve-says-the-steam-frame-is-priced-at-1-059-for-the-256gb-model-and",
        "published": "2026-09-14T17:25:04.000Z"
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        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Valve targeted a lower price for the Steam Frame, then the memory crisis happened: 'I wish we could have shipped it at the price that we were at last year'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/valve-targeted-a-lower-price-for-the-steam-frame-then-the-memory",
        "published": "2026-09-14T17:30:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TechSpot",
        "title": "Valve's Steam Frame launches at $1,059, and Half-Life: Alyx comes free",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/valves-steam-frame-launches-at-1-059-and-half-life-alyx-comes-free",
        "published": "2026-09-14T22:18:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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