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This is a mobile headset not a Rift 2.
I said I CALLED IT! Y'ALL CANT DENY ME MY RIGHT!
This is a mobile headset not a Rift 2.
Yes.$200 headset "Sounds like crap"
I think I'm completely done with Oculus and after that insane Rift deal, I suspected that they are simply trying to clear out inventory and abandon the Oculus Rift. Then today this story hits. Oculus will attempt a relaunch next year with a low quality Gear VR knockoff.
Might be time to sell my Rift now before it's no longer supported and going for $50 on ebay.
I should have went with Vive. I hope HTC or somebody else steps up and offers a true next gen VR experience.
Welp, I was super wrong they weren't going to announce a new headset.
This makes the price cut seem like they're on the way out of the PC space.
Sounds like a Gear with the phone included. And I'm not sure why would somebody want that.
The point is the tech isn't there for a compelling product to exist at this price point yet. This is like putting down people criticizing the idea of a $3000 formula 1 racer. Like of course WE know it's not gonna be up to par with a standard F1 vehicle and fine, sure, maybe there's a market for people out there who wanna try formula 1 racing but don't have the cash/means to buy the real thing, but if it is marketed as and unknowing people buy it expecting anything close to an actual F1 experience, in the way that this thing almost assuredly will, people are gonna be sorely disappointed or at the very least nonplussed. And unlike $3000 F1 racers there's an actual realistic roadmap to a compelling and affordable VR product that could have chilled sales as a result of this down the line.
Uh, HTC are doing the exact same thing with the Vive standalone.
I find it funny how this thread contrasts with this one: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1375713
Welp, I was super wrong they weren't going to announce a new headset.
This makes the price cut seem like they're on the way out of the PC space.
No, they are not. Their standalone headset which is based on Google's Daydream has positional tracking. Which is the minimum requirement to provide a decent VR experience. A VR headset without positional tracking is like selling coloured glass as diamonds.
It will rather sour people on VR than convince them.
"Google to launch standalone VR headset w/inside-out tracking"
Until VR doesn't need a separate PC it will be a tiny ass niche that seems to only exist for VC fools to get burned and directionless indie devs to get their expectations out of whack.
No positional tracking
FaceBook thinks VR video chat is important so this make sense.
How would VR video chat even work?
ah yeah, all those devs who have no idea what's going on in the field they spend all day working in
The same fucking morons who traipse about every day declaring "unequivocal truths" about motion sickness in VR that are flat out false?