A giant screen for your own films, no PC needed

FrameCinema plays your videos and photos right on the Steam Frame. Send them from your phone, pop in a microSD card, or play them from a shared folder on your PC or NAS. It all runs on the headset: no PC to leave on, no streaming, no account.

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Coming to Steam in November 2026.

Captured in the headset

Sprite Fright on a big flat screen over a night lake under the stars, the playback bar a thin strip underneath. — A big screen over a night lake.

A 360 video of a lakeshore in morning sun, rocks and trees all around, with the playback bar floating in front. — Step inside 360 and VR180 videos.

The Mode menu open over Sprite Fright, a grid of modes: Flat 2D, 3D side-by-side and over-under, VR180, Fisheye 200 degrees, 360, and Swap eyes. — Switch between flat, 3D, VR180 and 360 in one tap.

Features

Opens almost anything

MP4, MKV, WebM, MOV, AVI, MPEG-TS and camcorder files (.mts, .m2ts), DVD .vob, MPEG, WMV, FLV, Ogg, 3GP and more.
Hardware decoding of HEVC up to 8K at 30 fps and 5.7K at 60 fps, H.264 up to 4K at 60 fps, and 10-bit HEVC and VP9 with HDR10.
AV1, VP8, MPEG-2, DivX/Xvid, ProRes and others in software. DVDs and TV recordings are deinterlaced automatically.
HDR10 is tone-mapped for the headset's display. Dolby Vision profile 5 files play as HDR via open-source metadata mapping; FrameCinema is not certified by or affiliated with Dolby.

Every kind of video

2D cinema on a flat or curved screen you place where you like.
3D side-by-side and over-under, half and full, with eye swap.
VR180 and VR360, equirectangular and fisheye, mono and stereo.
Spatial video from an iPhone or Vision Pro, in full 3D.
Photos: JPEG, HEIC, PNG, WebP and AVIF, 3D photos and 360 panoramas, one at a time or as a slideshow.
FrameCinema picks the mode from the file's tags and name, and spots an untagged side-by-side film from its picture. You can always change it.

Smooth and sharp

The headset's refresh rate matches your film, so motion stays smooth with no judder. European TV and DVD films are slowed a touch to fit, with the pitch kept.
Black bars are found and cropped, so a widescreen film fills the screen, or you can pick 16:9, 4:3, 1.85, 2.39, Stretch or Zoom yourself.
Each eye renders above SteamVR's default resolution for a sharper picture.

Your films, wherever they are

Send from your phone: open the address the headset shows on your phone or computer, enter the code, and send films over Wi-Fi.
microSD cards appear in the Library automatically.
Network shares: play straight from a shared folder on a Windows PC, Mac or NAS (SMB), with a read-ahead buffer so Wi-Fi hiccups don't stop the film.

Sound and subtitles

Stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 tracks, with SteamOS's own spatial sound on the built-in speakers. Pick the track, adjust the delay, or change the speed with the pitch kept.
Subtitles from the file or beside it: SRT, ASS/SSA, WebVTT, PGS (Blu-ray), DVD and DVB. In 3D and 360 they float at a comfortable depth.

A Library that remembers

Thumbnails, sorting, search, folders and Continue watching, with file names in any script.
Star ratings, favourites and tags, playlists and smart playlists, shuffle and repeat.
Every file resumes where you stopped, with its own mode, screen position, picture, audio and subtitle choices.

Made for one hand

Everything works with a single controller and its laser: play, pause, seek, skip, volume, mode, screen size and distance. The pointer is steadied so buttons are easy to hit, and you can put the menu wherever it's comfortable.

Choose your surroundings

Watch by a night lake under the northern lights or a ringed planet, out in deep space, in a dim cinema room, in darkness, in your own room with passthrough, or inside one of your 360 photos. The film's light plays across the water and the room around the screen.

Comfortable 3D

Adjust convergence, depth and zoom for each 3D or 360 file until it sits right for your eyes, and FrameCinema remembers it.