Valve Steam Frame Engineering Deep-Dive: Water Cooling, Thermals, Power, Acoustics

Sponsor: HAVN BF 360 Flow on Amazon https://geni.us/PRsOyke Valve announced its Steam Frame VR headset, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller. We posted a video talking about all of that in depth, but we have more: This series of discussions and interviews with Valve's engineering teams focuses on thermal design, acoustics, and power delivery in the Steam Frame VR headset. Get the rest of the news (and the Steam Machine info) here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUxObt1efQ Learn about the special backer tiers with bonus videos and digital content: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia Or grab our new "RETRO I/O" Coaster Packs! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/gn-drink-retro-io-coaster-pack-4-custom-3d-coasters-100x100mm And our new Vaporwave Smiley T-shirt: https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/unhinged-vaporwave-smiley-t-shirt-cotton-black Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Valve Steam Frame Engineering Discussions 02:27 - Thermal Design, Water Cooling Tests 07:30 - Power Delivery, VRM Design, PCB 13:14 - Particularly Hard Challenges 18:32 - Acoustic Engineer: Vibration Challenges 21:53 - Display Thermal Sensitivity 23:03 - Driver Design, Spatial Design 24:14 - LASERS 29:52 - Testing Solutions and Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Writing Vitalii Makhnovets: Camera, Editing