{"id":6551,"date":"2017-10-12T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2017-10-12T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T04:06:00","slug":"oculus-connect-event-brings-new-headset-price-drops-hints-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/oculus-connect-event-brings-new-headset-price-drops-hints-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus&#8217; Connect event brings a new headset, price drops and hints at the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/27130432\/23222-29076-gyqppfeohneujy2bcgaf-l.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Presenting at an event in San Jose on Wednesday, Facebook&#8217;s Oculus introduced the Go, a new headset capable of operating without a connected phone, Mac, or Windows PC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Oculus Go is a a direct replacement for the partnered Samsung Gear VR headset. Interestingly enough we spoke about what might happen to Samsung &amp; Oculus&#8217; relationship on this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2017\/10\/episode-166-intelligent-home-assistant-ai-speaker-mania\/\">podcast<\/a> after it was announced Samsung would be making Microsoft MR headsets soon.<\/p>\n<p>The new Go has an inbuilt 2560 x 1440 display and audio however a headphone jack allows other headphones to be easily connected. It will be available for US$199.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing Oculus Go\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-bQUBzPZHHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new Go Oculus announced the temporary price drop to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B073X8N1YW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B073X8N1YW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=reckoner0f-20&amp;linkId=2d5a2d65ce4a84217a88b03a72399df7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oculus Rift + Touch bundle*<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=reckoner0f-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B073X8N1YW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> would become permanent. The new RRP a very low US$399.<\/p>\n<p>Finally Oculus showed off new six-axis controller for the upcoming &#8220;Santa Cruz&#8221; untethered headset being worked on by Oculus. Don&#8217;t get too excited, we&#8217;re likely not to see it come to fruition for another year at least.<\/p>\n<p><small>*Please note the link to the price dropped bundle is an Amazon affiliate link that benefits Reckoner.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/10\/11\/oculus-reveals-199-standalone-go-vr-headset-drops-rift-price-to-399\">Oculus reveals $199 standalone &#8216;Go&#8217; VR headset, drops Rift price to $399<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenting at an event in San Jose on Wednesday, Facebook&#8217;s Oculus introduced the Go, a new headset capable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}