Valve have released the Steam Frame's CAD files, but there’s already a cottage industry of DIY wrist straps and lifesize skull stands
Last week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time – Friday evening, after we all go home – to release the Steam Frame ’s CAD files to the world.
Last week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time – Friday evening, after we all go home – to release the Steam Frame ’s CAD files to the world.
The short version
- In short, this lets anyone with a 3D printer or a lathe or an injection moulder (etcetera) take the VR headset’s official blueprints and use them to make cool stuff for it.
- Even before this great declassifying, though, it seems some lucky first-wave Frame recipients were already putting their own headsets on the line to prototype homemade gadgets and accessories.
- At least one of them is a melting skull.
What happened
All of them, I salute, as standard bearers of this open, occasionally unhinged thing we call PC gaming. I feel like I’m missing so- oh, right, the skull.
Why it matters
Exactly the kind of thing that would ensure any future dinner party invitations you send are permanently ghosted, and yet also, a functional, convenient stand and display for your expensive VR headset.
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