Author: Eric Ravenscraft / Source: reviewgeek.com
The brand new Oculus Go headset, announced at Facebook’s F8 conference today, is a self-contained VR headset that doesn’t require computers or a separate phone to work.
The new headset marks a turning point for VR. So far, if you’ve wanted to try out the immersive reality experience that Oculus has been promising for years, you not only needed an expensive VR headset, but an expensive gaming PC to hook it up to. This was also true of the Oculus’s main competitor, the HTC Vive. On the other end of the spectrum, cheap headsets like the Google Daydream or Samsung Gear VR were empty headsets that you put your phone in to get a VR-like experience, but without all the complex motion tracking.
The Oculus Go meets somewhere in the middle. At $200, it’s more expensive than a Daydream or Gear VR headset, but it also contains all the hardware you need right out of the box. You don’t need a compatible smartphone to use it. It’s also considerably cheaper than the massive gaming rigs that you’d need for a full Oculus.
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