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Oculus Go announced, $199 standalone headset
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BlastProcessing
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From where I'm sitting, it made it pretty easy to read the important information.
artsi
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The Futurist
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Shit
This made me lose my shit at work.
That is just angular tracking.
MiamiWesker
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Oh so this is for mobile games not the actual big games people care about. That makes me feel better about the rift I have.
plagiarize
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This is an alternative to buying a high end Samsung phone and a Gear VR.
This image from reddit will give a good idea on how the 2 new oculus headsets are positioned in their product range.
Gear VR < Oculus Go(standalone) < Santa Cruz headset(standalone) < Oculus Rift (pc)
for those with no idea on what santa cruz is, it was announced with Oculus Go.
Santa Cruz project dev kits are going out to devs in 2018 with 6DoF (ie. positionally tracked) controllers that don't require sensors or base stations of any sort.
Gear VR < Oculus Go(standalone) < Santa Cruz headset(standalone) < Oculus Rift (pc)
for those with no idea on what santa cruz is, it was announced with Oculus Go.
Santa Cruz project dev kits are going out to devs in 2018 with 6DoF (ie. positionally tracked) controllers that don't require sensors or base stations of any sort.
Blam
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Holy shit.
Just like Palmer.
Trogdor1123
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To jump into vr or not to jump into vr... The tech is evolving so fast it's hard to see which way to go.
It's a gear VR with the phone glued in.
This is probably not the way to go. VR without positional tracking is not really VR, it's just a really cool Viewmaster.
Acxtually, this means no. 3DoF means rotation only.
birthbystars
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I don't get the first post
https://twitter.com/wolfenstein/status/916075551382585344
... So we're finally getting the much-awaited pleasure model?
PetriP-TNT
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For people who want a mobile headset, but don't have a Samsung Gear VR or Day Dream capable phone. Not bad considering they run around $100 for the headset + you need a phone.
They are also showed off the santa cruz prototype again which will be standalone mobile headset with 6 DOF + tracked controllers.
Dreamwriter
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Ive been wanting a GearVR or Daydream, but use iPhones. So Oculus Go is perfect for me. Id much rather have Santa Cruz, but what ya gonna do.
Papo Swing
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Really? smh
Dyson Industries
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Bloody amazing
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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Same ol G
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Legen wait for it ... dary
People without Samsung phones who want to play Gear VR shit.
I worry that putting half-assed mass market VR out there muddies the waters for the good shit.
Drillary Clinton
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best first post ever
irrotational
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Loving the recursion! Top effort!
Pretty much. About cheap enough for some YouTube VR and some Naughty America.
Goddayum
Bringer Of Bacon
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Snooze... wake me up when its discontinued
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Its mobile VR and you and access Gear VR contents , without needing to buy an expensive high end samsung phone and Gear VR separately
$200 is rather cheap
This is the best first post I have seen in a long time lol
Prevolition
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3DOF only, possibility of hype deflated. But glad a portable solution sans smartphone will be viable soon so I can support competitors.
McBradders
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Hell of a first post. Lawd...
On topic: this feels like the sweet spot. Wonder what the performance is actually like...
fierrotlepou
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Close the thread.
You can't have even halfway decent mobile VR (Gear or Daydream VR) for 200 bucks, not by a mile, so we definitely know one of those. And the other is what they claim.
This does not have positional tracking.
So people can stop asking
Pass.
There are cheaper alternatives for VR porn.
Dreamwriter
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We do, they said it had the best looking display of all VR headsets. Which means better than Vive and Rift, which are considered top of the line in terms of VR display quality. They also made a big point that the device was supposed to be a middle ground in terms of power, between mobile and PC, so in theory it should be more powerful than mobile.
As for undercutting mobile VR, that depends on how you calculate it, since the other devices dont work without an expensive phone, but if you have that expensive phone, they are really cheap (if not free). Unless you count Google Cardboard in there, in which case $200 is insanely pricier for mobile VR.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
I'd say not quite yet, but 2019 could be the year stars align.
Edit: that's not a typo: two years from now.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Like what? Google cardboard?
That can't be an argument, of course you need to calculate all the costs. Otherwise you could e.g. say PC VR is dirt cheap if your already own a Threadripper, a 1080 TI and an HTC Vive.
Toni
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Dreamwriter
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Disagree, because theres a difference between having a computer almost nobody has and will guaranteed be a required upgrade for most people, and one of the most popular cell phones. A GearVR doesnt cost $900 because it needs an $800 phone, nobody in the world thinks like that.