The fifth Oculus Connect developer meeting is underway in San Jose, California this 7 days. Apart from currently being a location for VR builders to satisfy up and examine the potential of immersive systems, Fb — the proprietor of Oculus — laid out its upcoming measures for exactly where VR (and AR) will head.
And of course, that incorporates new components: the $399 wi-fi Oculus Quest VR headset.
This is what is actually coming:
- Oculus Quest standalone VR coming spring 2019 for $399: The new system slots in among the existing $199 Oculus Go and the initial Oculus Rift, also at present $399. But, as opposed to the Rift, the Quest is completely wireless and it truly is manufactured for online games
- Zuckerberg still wants to get 1 billion people into VR, but it’ll take a while
- Expressive Avatars will be readily available afterwards this calendar year
- Oculus cellular application now supports Rift
- Oculus Product or service Supervisor Sean Liu introduced Oculus Go updates to make articles search far better let for casting to cellular equipment and ultimately TVs and the start of YouTube VR assistance
- Facebook’s Oculus Go is getting YouTube VR
- NBA online games are coming this slide to Oculus Venues.
- Vader Immortal, a 3-component Star Wars VR expertise, will be readily available in 2019 as a start title for the Oculus Quest.