Today, at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the company announced that its cheap and capable Oculus Go virtual reality headset will be going on sale today. The headset costs $199 for the version with 32GB of onboard storage, and $249 for the 64GB variety. We also finally have eyes on the full hardware specs, which only […]
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Oculus Go review: This is the iPhone of VR headsets
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Oculus Go
$199
The Good
Supremely easy to use • Effortless setup • High-quality lenses for a sharp image • Comfortable to wear • Affordable
The Bad
Light leaks from nose cutout • Charges over microUSB • Takes 3 hours to fully charge
The Bottom Line
The Oculus Go is the first VR headset that truly makes it easy to dive into VR without the hassle of connecting a phone or PC.
Mashable Score4.5
Cool Factor4.0
Learning Curve5.0
Performance4.0
Bang for the Buck5.0
I can’t think of a more messy and complicated technology in the last decade than VR. Read more…
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Facebook is assembling a team to design proprietary semiconductors.
The social network seeks a manager to head an “end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization,” reports Bloomberg, citing job listings and sources familiar with the matter.
It’s not yet clear what exactly these chips will power. The job posting seeks “expertise to build custom solutions targeted at multiple verticals including AI/ML” (artificial intelligence and machine learning).
This means we could be looking at something that’s going to power the AI in Facebook’s upcoming smart speaker, which the company planned to announce in July, but delayed indefinitely among the kerfuffle of Cambridge Analytica. Amazon is also at work on in-house AI chips to power Alexa in future Echo models. Read more…
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View More Facebook is hiring a team to design its own chipsOculus implements its own GDPR-compliant privacy controls
While Facebook is still struggling to regain user trust following a data fiasco that ultimately brought Zuckerberg to testify in front of Congress, the company still has plenty to do to ready itself for GDPR and appease EU lawmakers. This includes making sure that everything is up to snuff at its virtual reality company, Oculus […]
View More Oculus implements its own GDPR-compliant privacy controlsPalmer Luckey, political martyr?
In the middle of testimony over Facebook’s privacy scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took a moment to grill Mark Zuckerberg over his company’s political loyalties. In the course of a testy exchange between Sen. Cruz and Zuckerberg, the senator brought up the dismissal of Palmer Luckey, the controversial founder of virtual reality tech development […]
View More Palmer Luckey, political martyr?Facebook shows off a new avatar system, but it’s still just for VR
Facebook is continuing to drive updates to their little-used virtual reality Spaces app where users can explore 360 content and chat with other users in VR. Today, FB showcased some big new changes to the avatar system in Spaces that switches up the visual style quite a bit. The avatar system is a lot more […]
View More Facebook shows off a new avatar system, but it’s still just for VRDoes Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?
Maggie Lane Contributor Share on Twitter Maggie Lane is a writer and producer of virtual reality experiences and covers the industry for various publications. It was barely minutes after the Ready Player One premiere, and texts from my friends and colleagues in the VR community began pouring in… “How was it?” Those of us in […]
View More Does Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?First impressions of the $199 Oculus Go VR headset
Virtual reality seems to have become a very tired topic to consumers, products are still getting made though because big tech companies are convinced of its eventual ubiquity. The challenge now becomes attracting attention from people whose attention spans for what you’re selling has perhaps already timed out. Oculus Go is the latest VR hardware […]
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Compelling virtual reality shipped to developers and consumers nearly two years ago. The first flagship headsets arrived from Oculus and HTC back in the spring of 2016, offering enough resolution, frame rate, field of view, latency mitigation and position-tracking to produce believable visual immersion. But no one seems to know what to do with it.
View More VR, presence and the case of the missing killer appAll of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate
Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today, an expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company’s Rift VR headsets with users still unable to fire up software on the devices with no word of an incoming fix from the company yet. Issues were first reported several hours ago on Reddit, where a post on the topic has already garnered hundreds of comments. The… Read More
Facebook is seeking a tech journalist and a #content creator
Facebook is looking to hire two editors, one focused on managing technology-related stories and the other working with the company’s Creative Shop for brand campaigns.
The recent job descriptions align with Facebook’s efforts to be more transpa…
I just don’t understand these cheesy virtual reality movie ‘experiences’
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I’ve always believed that virtual reality has huge potential as an entertainment platform, and clearly some directors are still with me. Oculus supported five “experiences” that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one of which landed a seven-figure deal.
The experiences are innovative and interesting — but they’re suffering from an identity crisis.
A few months ago I sampled “Coco VR,” a “VR Experience” based on the movie Coco, which was forthcoming at the time. I ran around an animated Land of the Dead in the form of a skeleton, touring an art museum, seeing a mariachi performance, and trying on skeleton costumes. Read more…
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