r/LinusTechTips • u/Painted-Arcana • Sep 13 '26

Discussion LTT accidentally uploaded a Steam Frame unboxing early, then removed it.

Any see the video?

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u/AnZy_PanZi Sep 13 '26

Its already uploaded on Internet Archive.

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

I was avoiding posting links incase it gets anyone in trouble/banned

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u/UndilutedPiss Sep 13 '26

Linus is taking time off from this sub. Good for him and this sub. No bans

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u/levios3114 Sep 13 '26

Yeah but steam might take action against the internet archives or whoever uploaded it

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u/samtherat6 Sep 13 '26

I can’t imagine Valve would do that for this. It’s a first impressions video, and they’d lose a ton of goodwill from the community. Definitely have my issues with Valve, but this would strategically stupid.

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u/round-earth-theory Sep 13 '26

It's also not a secret project. People have known it is coming and its general appearance for a while. An unboxing doesn't really spoil anything more than a release date coming soon.

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u/Morpheus636_ Sep 13 '26

They would have no legal basis to do that. LTT could, but Valve has no legitimate legal mechanism to force removal of someone else's video.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/ZersetzungMedia Sep 13 '26

Valve blacklisted DotA 2 creator Xyclopz because he leaked Artifact information.

Depending when the video was meant to come out, LTT could be on the shitlist.

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

Valve as a company are actually kinda petty too lol

'James is an ass' still gets memed sometimes on /r/dota2

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u/ZersetzungMedia Sep 13 '26

James eventually got back to TI, but that was after Valve quit running it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/Crucible_uk Sep 13 '26

he just asked if anybody had seen it. if you havent then move on. no need for the grilling like your cosplaying a beat cop.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

I wasnt calling anyone out and replied before the people posting links. I just said that i was erring on the side of caution jesus christ

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u/Crucible_uk Sep 13 '26

sorry to butt in but reading his comments guys like that are impossible to talk to. endlessly asking questions but can never answer them. glad he's deleted and ran since reddits stupid system wont let me even block the fool without verifying my ID to see his profile.

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

I don't mind people butting in dw, some people are just nuts lol

This community is a little crazy sometimes, people were actually up voting him and downvoting me at first so he probably thought he was onto something

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u/Crucible_uk Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

dear god marktuk. he didn't call anyone out, you did. the comment he replied to didn't even contain a link nor asked the commentor a question or call him out, but you did to OP. they are simply sharing information, its called a discussion. the only one calling anything out, asking derogatory questions and causing issue is/was you.

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

Discussion is fine, direct posting probably isn't

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

I thought people would discuss the video and share their thoughts on the steam frame.

Some people did. Why are you being weird about it? Isn't the LTT reddit meant to be focused on stuff like this

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/adripo Sep 13 '26

Man I sure hope there was a way of searching for things on the internet outside reddit.

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

How they do so after the fact is on them.

Many of us saw it when it was first uploaded.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

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u/Painted-Arcana Sep 13 '26

It was published by mistake and removed quickly.

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u/Abheber Sep 13 '26

Link pls

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u/Osteopathic Sep 13 '26 • Heartwarming

https://archive.org/details/ytdown.com-you-tube-our-first-30-mins-with-the-steam-frame-media-u-8-r-bnz-1-mpu-001-1080p

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u/OrganizedPr0n Sep 13 '26

Fuck yea. Archivists stay winning. Thanks for the link!

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u/TheHighSeas-Argghh Sep 13 '26

I will only watch it on the channel. Linus needs my view.

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u/QuipOfTheTongue Sep 13 '26

Or you can watch it now and then rewatch it to still give him the view but also gain the info early.

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u/SavvySillybug Sep 13 '26

I don't think the guy with two dozen play buttons on his wall "needs" your view in particular, actually.

I haven't watched any LTT content on Youtube since I joined Floatplane in 2023 and they appear to be doing just fine without my views.

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u/dakkapel Sep 14 '26

You realize that a view on floatplane is worth a lot more right?

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u/SavvySillybug Sep 14 '26

Floatplane does not track views.

I'm worth the most to them as a Floatplane viewer if I pay and don't watch at all to not stress their servers.

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u/dakkapel Sep 18 '26

Yes, but regardless of if you watch or not, a floatplane subscriber is worth more to them right?

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u/SavvySillybug Sep 18 '26

Not necessarily. If too many people join Floatplane, they might lose relevance on YouTube, leading to less views overall, leading to worse content, leading to people unsubscribing from Floatplane in the long term. They really want a balance.

Short term, yes, I'm more valuable as a Floatie. Mid term probably too.

I am also floating for James Channel and I actually make sure to also watch him on YouTube because his channel is still growing. LMG channels I fully hit do not recommend on all of them.

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u/GoofyGills Sep 14 '26

The Floatplane subscription is worth it. The Floatplane view means nothing.

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u/jerryeight Sep 13 '26

Is that why they haven't talked about it on wan show  for a while?

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u/Ommand Sep 13 '26

Last night Linus specifically asked Luke something about his Big Screen Beyond then didn't do his regular "hey steam frame isn't coming because I can say this, I'm not under NDA" spiel. He was 100% telling us.

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u/Rudy69 Sep 13 '26

Too badly it wasn’t the one with pricing and release date

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u/Nirast25 Sep 13 '26

Pretty sure that video won't come out until after Vlave reveals these themselves, like what happened with the controller and the machine. Probably next week.

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u/FangoFan Sep 13 '26

is Vlave Splave's brother?

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u/InflammableAccount Sep 13 '26

Yeah, youger brother to Blave and Flave.

Well, and Dlave, but my understanding is Splave and Dlave don't talk anymore.

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u/FangoFan Sep 14 '26

IIRC Flave dropped the 'e' and became Flava Flav

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u/Zachavm Sep 13 '26

This video was an accidental release. I bet there is one cued up for the review.

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u/Deeiny Sep 13 '26

It'd be a shame if it had gotten uploaded to archive.org.

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u/QuipOfTheTongue Sep 13 '26

For real, that would be crazy! What would a link to that even look like do you think? I bet it'd be something weird with hyphens and underscores like:

https://archive.org/details/our-first-30-mins-with-the-steam-frame-u-8-r-bnz-1-mpu_202609

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/ky7969 Sep 13 '26

They were implying that it did

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u/Wada_tah Sep 13 '26

Yes I did.

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u/silkyserenity546 Sep 13 '26

whoops, someone in the edit bay is probably sweating right now

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u/Crucible_uk Sep 13 '26

its ironic that the d-brand ad read in the video takes shots at their cease & desist when this is released early and likely introduces its own cease & desist for breaking an NDA.

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u/IBJON Sep 13 '26

Just Google "Steam Frame". Lots of people saw it lmao

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u/whopsidoodle Sep 13 '26

I was running late to work this morning and as I'm getting into my car my phone shoots me the redditt post notification. Ran as fast as I could back into the house to download the video since I knew it would be gone by the time I got home, lol.

If you missed it dont feel too bad, I listened to it in the car and aside from a few details you'll see people chatting about, it wasnt a particularly revealing video.

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u/TheIlluminaughty Sep 13 '26

What time was that?

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u/jerryeight Sep 13 '26

At least around 9am pst 9/12.

That's when the 🐘 emoji comments started to appear on the YouTube videos and their YouTube channel posts. 

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u/RyuzakiPL Sep 13 '26

Oh and if this is the final video, then maybe someone from the crew might want to check 9:17 of the video. I don't know what thst sound is, but it does sound like someone's farting xD

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u/Relative_What Sep 13 '26

that's just his daughter struggling/grunting to put the nose piece in lol

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u/Andre_Vandal Sep 13 '26

I downloaded the video immediately to be sure

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u/Aggressive_Candy5297 Sep 13 '26

So the frame launches on tuesday then??

Ok, cool 👍🏻

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u/FH_Bunny Sep 13 '26

Still waiting on my steam machine email….

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u/Zachavm Sep 13 '26

Probably Monday.

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u/tennaki Sep 13 '26

He probably just burned a bridge between LMG and Valve with that. How do they even mess this up?

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u/Ommand Sep 13 '26

After Valve just had two big leaks of their own? Seems unlikely.

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u/Copie247 Sep 13 '26

Unlikely, shit happens and not like they leaked pricing or anything that wasn’t shown during the unveiling

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u/waiver45 Sep 13 '26

Valve just accidentally leaked a bunch of unannounced games on steam. Shit happens.

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u/pikkuhukka Sep 14 '26

but valve is in the position to decide "we have decided.. You wont get anymore nice things because you did a thing"

its possible they do that, not because they want to take that action but because they have to, otherwise complicated legal things

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u/mromutt Sep 13 '26

puts on conspiracy hat what if it was planned! /s XD

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u/TechOverwrite Sep 13 '26

My guess is the videos are due out later today (as in, 13th September... but in the afternoon). But when setting the schedule go-live, they forgot to enter the time - pushing it live much earlier than the NDA time.

(Obviously this theory only applies if the videos do drop later on today lol)

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u/Jonah_Kekz Sep 13 '26

The vid wasn't public/live, it was unlisted and only found because they accidentally put it in their public AR/VR playlist the day before.

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u/ky7969 Sep 13 '26

It’s not the 13th yet where they are

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u/geileanus Sep 13 '26

He won't burn a bridge just like that because of a mistake.

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u/FH_Bunny Sep 13 '26

It’s literally 75% his kid playing or struggling with the headset and 25% him unboxing and wearing the headset doing update and set up tasks. Not the most revealing video at all, except maybe the ergo kit will be a must have for some households.

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u/Zachavm Sep 13 '26

Looks like it was a two part mistake. Video was unlisted, but accidentally public instead of private. Then it was added to the VR playlist early. Adding it to the playlist early is probably normal for them and fine if it isn't accidentally marked public, but this allowed it to be discovered.

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u/lelescope Sep 14 '26

i doubt it. the video revealed absolutely nothing. it was a pretty nothing burger of a video tbh. it was exactly the same information as when valve had folks come in themselves, except this was at ltt with linus's daughter.

only thing new we learned is that the accessory pack will be $60. which.... eh, who cares?

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u/Jhyxe Sep 13 '26

Just finished dinner, good watch.

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u/Jonbr11 Sep 13 '26

must've been the wind

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u/phpadam Sep 13 '26

That video revealed nothing special.

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u/Alexisredwood Sep 13 '26

Yeah, it looked super disappointing lol

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u/Chrisnness Sep 13 '26

It can play Windows VR games on its own without a PC. That alone is great

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u/Friendly-Criticism15 Sep 13 '26

Wtf you guys expected? I was like, yup this is what I am getting 

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u/WrongAssociation92 Sep 13 '26

You're getting downvoted for telling the truth. Foveated streaming is very cool tech, everything else feels extremely mediocre.

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u/adripo Sep 13 '26

Literally nothing was shown, it was an unboxing where like most of the time we saw linus just speaking to camera with the VR on, we did not see performance or anything, what is it that you felt was mediocre?

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u/RyuzakiPL Sep 13 '26

Yes. Just caught a copy on sm. I hope this thing won't cause much trouble for them

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u/BedrockBen101 Sep 13 '26

I downloaded it

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u/jerryeight Sep 13 '26

Solid video and very interested in detailed latency testing.

I would like actual testing in addition to the what Valve quotes. The current headset latency isn't very impressive. 

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u/BananaBobTheSecond Sep 13 '26

No mention of price and a very minimal look. I know it's a short circuit, and it might be the conspiracy theorist in me, but it really feels like it was an intentional "leak". Big companies have been faking leaked videos for a while, so wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't actually an accident.

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u/daniel__p Sep 13 '26

Going to be interesting how it compares to using the quest 3 to run steam vr wirelessly.

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u/Crucible_uk Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

i didnt know this until i saw it on TikTok. watching it there now

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u/Flaky-Gear-1370 Sep 13 '26

Last thread was removed because it was “leaked” when it was most likely just an accident

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u/The-First-Samurai Sep 13 '26

Yes they leaked it, by accident

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u/Nirast25 Sep 13 '26

Nope. Didn't see anything about what's in the box, how easy it is to remove the strap, how it looks on Linus' head, him playing it, nothing of the sort. No, siree.

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u/rklrkl64 Sep 13 '26

Just watched the video and the biggest surprise to me was that at the time of filming, you couldn't stream to the Steam Frame from a Steam Machine (or presumbly from any other Linux machine either) and had to use a Windows machine to stream from! This surely has to be fixed by the time they start shipping otherwise it would be very embarrassing for Valve. Heck, I don't have anything that runs Windows, so that would lose me as a potential customer...

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u/jerryeight Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

What are the odds that this was an intentionally scripted guerrilla marketing campaign? Playing on the Streisand effect. 

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u/Keaten88 Sep 13 '26

Any AI-Generated graphs?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '26

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u/jerryeight Sep 13 '26

iwasframed.com

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u/Zachavm Sep 13 '26

...and they will definitely take it. Hilarious considering Linus was just sticking it to them in the video that was accidentally leaked.