Enlarge / Oculus Quest is official. (credit: Kyle Orland)
SAN JOSE, California—Facebook used its latest virtual reality conference, the fifth annual Oculus Connect, to finally confirm retail plans for its most ambitious standalone VR product yet: the Oculus Quest. Originally known by its prototype name, Oculus Santa Cruz, the Quest will ship in Spring 2019 for $399.
In terms of the sales pitch, this is the Oculus holy grail: a wireless, hand-tracked, “six degrees of freedom” VR system with apparently legitimate 3D power.
“It needs to be standalone,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced about the future of all Oculus products to come, as an indicator of the “ideal form factor” for VR. “Hand presence” and “six degrees of freedom” were required as well. And this new headset ticks all three of Zuckerberg’s boxes.
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Source: Ars Technica – Oculus Quest, a fully wireless VR headset, shipping Spring 2019 for 9