Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive? - bbc.com

Share Save Add as preferred on Google Tom Gerken Technology reporter Watch: BBC’s Tom Gerken gets his hands on Valve's Steam Frame Valve's new virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, has officially been released - but it comes at a high price.

The hardware is excellent - a light device which feels comfortable to wear and is packed with clever technology - so long as you're willing to pay a whopping £1,089 for a headset with 1TB of storage.

The variant with 256GB of storage, meanwhile, costs £889.

Both are capable of streaming from a PC as well as playing games on-device, with varying degrees of success.

But it carries a price tag which will make a lot of people roll their eyes, and doesn't do much to dispel criticism that increasingly-costly VR headsets are pricing people out of the hobby.