Facebook's (FB) virtual reality arm Oculus,announcedits new Oculus Go at its Oculus connect4 conference on Wednesday. the headset, which will ship next year for $199 is aimed squarely at taking vrtual more mainstream .
"It's hands-down the easiest way to get into VR", Facebook vice president of VR Hugo Barra told the audience during the conference.
The Oculus Go is an all-In-one, standalone headset that, unike, previous headsets from Oculus, doesn,t need to be hked up to a PC. The Go als includes from optical lenses which enable the same field view offered by previous Oculus headsets, but with redued glare.
For Oculus,the Go is an incredibly crowded market. The oculus Go hits a sweet spot Mark Zuckerberg emphasized was necessary: it's a relatively affordable pice of hardware meant to offer up competitive features.
The Go will also play a pivotal role in Zuckerberg's new goal of getting 1 Billion people in virtual reality.
