could<\/em> likely signal a future where Oculus moves away from smartphone mobile VR as they shift to building their own platforms and letting Google dominate VR on Android, which was a bit of an inevitability anyway.<\/p>\nThe high-end \u201cSanta Cruz\u201d headset doesn\u2019t need Windows and will instead rely on onboard compute. Oculus was more than a little vague in how they portrayed the device, so I won\u2019t assume too much, but there\u2019s little doubt that the headset will be less powerful as a standalone than what the Rift can currently handle. That may end up disappointing die-hards, but subtle movements of the high-end market away from being tethered to a PC is going to do Facebook a lot of favors in terms of platform sustainability and leaving the early-adopter niche.<\/p>\n
The thing is, there\u2019s been this misconception that Valve or Samsung or Microsoft or Sony are Oculus\u2019s competitors, when the fact is that their main competitor is irrelevancy.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/09f47_oculus-go-price.png?resize=640%2C360&ssl=1\")
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Zuck introduces the $199 Oculus Go headset<\/p>\n
What\u2019s important is that these moves isolate Facebook and Oculus from other tech giants getting cold feet in the race to build VR tech. With standalone headsets, Facebook can take its massive war chest and the billions of dollars it\u2019s already pledged and put on its blinders, undercutting competitors\u2019 prices and plugging ahead even if headset numbers fail to impress.<\/p>\n
Mark Zuckerberg seems unlikely to shift his assertion that VR is the future, and with that steadfastness, if there\u2019s a market in VR, Facebook will likely be the one to realize it, both on the hardware side with Oculus and what Facebook has shown with software like Spaces.<\/p>\n
Facebook bought Oculus VR more than three years ago and the ride since has been pretty bumpy. Scandals, product delays, executive overhauls and expensive lawsuits have all partially defined the company\u2019s VR ambitions thus far. What comes next is anyone\u2019s guess, but for Facebook it will finally be their choice to make.<\/p>\n
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