I think we upgraded from shovel to those truck vacuum things for sewers and septic tanks and whatnot.

Though I recon city sewage sanitation workers do occasionally have to put in some elbow grease and go at it the old fashioned way.

Would steam frame fall into a vr headset category that doesn’t spy on you?

Yes an account is required for most straightforward functionality and it is made to primarily work with steam but from what I know it can be bypassed and isolated to a specific dongle network channel and will only sends stuff like eye tracking or camera data if you submit troubleshooting logs, everything else is either on device or not stored at all