Valve’s Real Secret Weapon

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[00:02] to do with VR. It's all down to effects. So inside the Steam Frame, it has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which is a nearly three year old phone chip, but they've got a full copy of SteamOS and Windows games running on that. Now there are two reasons why this works. First of all is Proton. Now this has been around for years. It's the reason why the Steam Deck can play tons of games that are originally designed for Windows. But then when you add effects to it, they can run on a mobile chip, literally in the headset. And this opens up a huge world of possibilities. Maybe a next generation Steam Deck, [00:32] processor with twice as much battery life as the AMD chip, or maybe, just maybe, you could run full-on Steam games on your Android smartphone before too long. Imagine a world in which you can have a powerful and battery-efficient handheld or even a phone that runs pretty much your entire Steam library. It's not as crazy as it sounds.