The Steam Frame has two speakers on each side of your face for vibration cancellation

In its caller Steam Frame VR headset, Valve enactment dual audio drivers connected each broadside successful the included caput strap. That puts the audio adjacent your ears portion you’re wearing it, and successful my little clip trying the instrumentality astatine Valve’s office recently, I thought the dependable was conscionable fine. But the prime to person those dual drivers besides helps trim audio vibrations, which helps the headset with tracking portion you’re playing games successful VR, Valve hardware technologist Jeremy Selan tells The Verge.

The Frame, similar galore different VR headsets, uses outward-facing cameras built into the main portion of the headset for tracking. However, audio with bully bass “induces vibrations into the headset,” which tin impact that tracking, according to Selan. But connected the Frame’s included caput strap, the dual drivers per broadside are “mounted other to each other,” which creates “vibration cancellation inherent successful the design.” That allows for “better tracking, adjacent with bully audio,” Selan says.

Pretty cool! The headset is modular, too, truthful theoretically, you mightiness beryllium capable to usage different caput straps with different audio solutions later. It’s a truly absorbing headset — I precocious got to effort it for myself.