Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day

The Verge’s Jay Peters wearing Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset, from the side.

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 sin …

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