In addition to Valve contributing to the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for enhancing the Linux gaming experience and their AMD-powered Steam Deck, the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset is making use of Mesa’s open-source “Turnip” Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.
Linux consulting firm Igalia who has long seen funded work from Valve wrote a blog post today to outline their recent efforts given last week’s Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller announcement. Igalia highlighted the work they have been doing for the Steam Frame around FEX for x86/x86_64 emulation on ARM for the Qualcomm Snapdragon powered VR device. Plus the work done to Turnip for serving as the Vulkan driver on the Steam Frame
For me, it was the biggest announcement from that and probably the reason i might invest in the Steam Frame.
That way I support Valve (or more like “i agree with that so here is my money) going the way of ARM support for Linux, the same way I bought the Steam Deck to “support” Proton translation layers.