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Oculus Go is the first VR gadget you might actually buy
If all the hype about virtual reality were true, you’d be reading this column through VR goggles.
But in actual reality, tech’s next big thing has been stuck as tech’s niche market thing. When VR for homes arrived two years ago, it required strapping on a $600 face computer with a cable slithering down your back into another, even more expensive computer. Or you needed a special phone slipped inside funny headgear. The tech got in the way of non-gamers even trying VR.
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It costs just $200. It has no cables. It’s easy to use. It works for iPhone people and Android people, Mac people and PC people.
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The Oculus Rift was the 2016 gadget you hoped your neighbor bought so you could try it out. The Oculus Go is the 2018 gadget you buy as a gift.
The Oculus Go doesn’t solve all the problems facing VR. You can teleport to new places, but you won’t forget you’re actually wearing goggles. And aficionados will be disappointed that the Oculus Go, in an effort to trim its price and bulk, offers less-sophisticated VR experiences than its predecessors.
Yet the Oculus Go addresses what I think is a bigger issue: It’s accessible to people who aren’t super rich or super into video games and computers. And VR will become better when more than just geeks get involved.
What makes the Oculus Go a breakthrough is that it’s self-contained. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which debuted in 2016, are tethered to high-end PCs. Sony’s PlayStation VR plugs into a PlayStation. The less-expensive Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View require specific-model Android phones. (That, in particular, had left iPhone people out of the fun.)
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