Valve plans to supply prescription lens inserts for its Steam Body VR headset “forward of launch” this 12 months

You will have seen that Valve has tweaked the wording concerning its upcoming {hardware} launches, together with the Steam Body VR headset. “Early 2026” has now pivoted to a extra imprecise “first half of the 12 months” launch window, as revealed in a current weblog submit on the Steam Group boards. On the identical time, a couple of extra questions in regards to the {hardware} have been answered, and Valve plans to supply extra video and weblog content material within the build-up to launch.

Valve says it plans to launch prescription lens inserts for the Steam Body. We’d additionally count on third events to supply these lenses – for instance, Apple chooses to bundle its Imaginative and prescient Professional headset with optical inserts from German producer Zeiss. It’s not but identified whether or not Valve will produce official, first-party lenses or equally outsource them.

Does the Steam Body work with glasses?

Prescription lenses are designed to make utilizing VR headsets simpler or in any other case extra snug for glasses wearers. Nonetheless, they aren’t a necessity for the Steam Body. In response to Valve, members of its workforce who put on glasses have been utilizing the headset “with out difficulty,” although it finally comes all the way down to the width of your glasses’ frames.

Can Steam Body be used whereas sporting glasses?

A bunch of individuals on the workforce put on glasses and use Steam Body with out difficulty, but it surely actually depends upon the width of the glasses frames. And whereas we don’t have particulars to share but, we’re trying into making prescription lens inserts obtainable forward of launch.

Supply: Valve, through Steam Group

The lead developer of Godot XR, Bastiaan Olij, lately talked about his expertise with a Steam Body dev equipment, pointing in direction of the consolation issue as certainly one of his favourite issues about it up to now (he significantly likes that it could possibly relaxation on his brow with out discomfort). Olij, as a glasses wearer, additionally says “it’s wonderful” along with his glasses on, although admits he’ll “finally get lenses for it”.

The Steam Body has been designed as a light-weight VR headset, weighing in at simply 440 grams. That is round 75 grams lighter than the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S, so it’s clear that Valve has taken steps to make sure the gadget is snug for a variety of customers.