New mystery Valve hardware device certified in South Korea

pcgamer.com:

A new Valve hardware device has just received radio certification in South Korea, which is often a precursor to a wider release. But what, exactly, is it? The obvious candidates are a new Steam Deck, a controller or a VR headset.

Given what Valve has said regarding the Steam Deck 2, a new model or even a significant update doesn't feel imminent, so we'll rule that out. A new controller is a bit more plausible.

However, Valve discontinued the Steam Controller back in 2019 and the broad sense is that it along with the whole Steam Machine thing was rolled into the Steam Deck. So, a new controller seems unlikely, though not entirely impossible.

Which leaves us with a new VR headset. The existing Valve Index is an entirely wired and «dumb» unit meaning it's essentially just a display and can't run any software itself. It's also over three years old. 

Meanwhile, this Korean certification is for some kind of wireless device. The new listing is also pretty much identical in its details to that of the Meta Quest 3, which is a relatively low cost wireless headset with its own CPU, GPU, RAM and storage.

So, one of the more likely prospects is that Valve is about to wheel out a new mainstream all-in-one wireless VR headset that doesn't require a PC, and has some kind of computing and OS onboard.

A new Valve hardware device just received radio certification in South KoreaValve Index was 1007Steam Deck was 1010??? is 1030https://t.co/AfgKorlyFZ pic.twitter.com/ECJPhqxTsuSeptember 7, 2023

The details are entirely speculative for now. The Quest 3 runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. The precise specs haven't been released, but it will likely be related to if not identical to various smartphone Snapdragon SoCs. Realistically, that's the kind