The Steam Frame Has Two Speakers On Each Side Of Your Face For Vibration Cancellation

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

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

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