Unreal Engine 5.8 adds experimental Steam Frame support, Qualcomm give the Steam Frame a dedicated page

Valve's new VR kit the Steam Frame appears to be inching closer to a release announcement - here's two more fun bits of news on it for you.

The first is a pretty minor one, as technology company Qualcomm have recently given the Steam Frame a dedicated page on their website. Why? Because it's powered by their 4 nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. They list various products their hardware powers, so that's not surprising but to see it live there means it must be a bit closer to release now.

Additionally, for game developers Unreal Engine 5.8 Preview has rolled out and their roadmap link has it clearly noted under Platforms that it has "Steam Frame Support (Experimental)" added in from developer Victor Brodin that simply notes:

Together with Valve we have implemented experimental support for their next XR platform: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

bPackageForOpenXRImmersive is a new setting that defaults to true in the VR Template.

If you're interested in the Steam Frame compatibility review process, Valve also have a public page up in the Steamworks Documentation. It notes Valve added a special Performance Criteria overlay developers can use to help measure resolution and frame rate.

When it comes to performance games need:

• 2D titles: your game must run at a minimum 30 fps at 1280x720 during normal play.
• VR titles: your game must run at a minimum of 72 fps at 1728x1728 during normal play.
  (Recommendations: We strongly recommend submitting both motion vector and depth suitable for reprojection. This will not automatically throttle your application, but will enable users to optionally run at higher refresh rates using improved reprojection techniques.)
  VR games below 1440x1440 will appear with an Unsupported badge.