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Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day
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Roughly 140 tons of Steam Machines should be in the US now, too.
Roughly 140 tons of Steam Machines should be in the US now, too.
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On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame, Valve’s new gaming headset.
Import records show that Valve’s distribution partner Ceva offloaded nearly 32 metric tons of “Virtual Reality Devices” on Valve’s behalf — or roughly 13 tons of actual product, after you subtract the roughly 3,700 kilogram weight of five 40-foot shipping containers.
That’s the same math we used to estimate that Valve imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days last month — and since Valve is differentiating between “Game Consoles” and “Virtual Reality Devices” in its import records, we can be far more certain that the Steam Machine console is the device it was stockpiling before.