Steam Frame accounted for 4.13 percent of VR headsets in Valve's Steam Hardware and Software Survey for October 2026, its first full month on sale, up from 0.41 percent in September. That places it sixth of the named headsets, just behind Pico 4 at 4.50 percent. Meta Quest 3 leads at 27.27 percent, and the Valve Index moved to 9.90 percent in the month Valve ended its production.
In short:
- What Valve published: the October 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey, read November 2, 2026, which carries a VR headset chart running from May 2025.
- Steam Frame: 4.13 percent, from 0.41 percent in September. Valve's headset shipped on September 14, so September counts roughly two weeks of it.
- The leaders: Meta Quest 3 at 27.27 percent and Oculus Quest 2 at 22.23 percent, with Meta Quest 3S third at 11.04 percent.
- Valve Index: 9.90 percent, from 10.83 percent, in the month Valve announced that production had ended.
What the survey measures
Valve describes the survey as a monthly, optional and anonymous collection of the hardware and software its customers use. The VR chart gives each headset's share of the headsets recorded among participants, so it measures what is in use on Steam that month. Sales and shipments are a separate count, and Valve publishes no unit figure for Steam Frame.
Where the share moved
Steam Frame gained 3.72 points. The largest decline was Oculus Quest 2, down 3.57 points from 25.80 to 22.23 percent, and the Valve Index lost 0.93 points. Meta Quest 3 gained 0.37 points and Meta Quest 3S held at 11.04 percent, against 11.07 in September. Sony PS VR2 rose to 2.41 percent from 2.31.
Valve's chart carries two rows labeled Other. One moved from 1.49 to 2.76 percent and the other from 8.92 to 8.73 percent, and the chart gives no breakdown of either.
The survey records shares and states no reason for any change, so this post attributes none. Two of Valve's own dates sit inside the window: Steam Frame shipped at $1,059 for 256GB on September 14, and the Index production announcement came on October 13.
How to read the next one
The survey page updates in place each month, so the figures above are the October 2026 edition as read on November 2. The November edition will be the first to show Steam Frame across two full months on sale.
Related reading. Our comparison of current XR headsets carries the checked prices for every headset in the chart that is still on sale, and our report on the end of Valve Index production covers the remaining stock and its prices.
