Facebook Announces $199 Oculus Go Standalone VR Headset (variety.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:35AM from the cheap,-mass-production dept.

Facebook is going to ship a standalone VR headset called Oculus Go next year. The headset, which won't require a PC or phone to run, will be available early next year for $199. From a report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced the new product during his keynote speech at Facebook's fourth Oculus Connect virtual reality (VR) developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Wednesday, where he framed the device as an important step towards bringing VR to the masses. "We want to get a billion people in virtual reality," Zuckerberg said. Facebook VP of VR Hugo Barra said that the company developed custom lenses for the headset, which allow for a wide field of view. The display is a fast-switch LCD screen with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels, and it comes with integrated headphones. The company will be shipping first headsets to developers in November.

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Re:Missing the Mark by Spy+Handler · 2017-10-11 06:09 · Score: 3, Informative

You do not have to buy all your games from from Oculus store. You can get games from Steam or other places. All you need to do is go into Oculus settings and check "Allow 3rd party apps"
Re:Not VR by JohnFen · 2017-10-11 07:20 · Score: 4, Informative

From TFA:

Oculus Go will ship with a handheld controller and work with the same apps available on Samsung’s Gear VR headset. However, it won’t have any positional tracking, which means that high-end VR apps available on the Oculus Rift headset won’t run on the device.