Friday, October 7, 2016

Oculus Connect 3: presentation of Facebook and other VR news – Popular Mechanics

the Company Oculus, now owned by Facebook, announced software Oculus and Oculus Social Room, along with several other updates (for example, detection systems RoomScale) and announced the official release date of the controllers, Oculus Touch.

the reasons for the purchase of Facebook company Oculus in 2014, it’s now a lot clearer, one need only look at the Facebook presentation of the VR in action. Service of virtual social networks will enable users to communication with each other with a radius of 360o, as well as to meet virtual avatars within the Network. As an example of such interaction was demonstrated in a virtual scene in which the avatars first, played cards, and then suddenly switched to combat swords. Communication within virtual reality can also be implemented using devices and programs Facebook from almost anywhere on Earth. So, by using Facebook Messenger, mark contacted his wife Priscilla with the help of the gadget on the wrist while inside the VR scene.

After the demonstration, the representative of the Oculus announced the release date and price of future sensory VR controllers — they will be on the shelves in December this year and will cost $ 199 for the two controllers. Anyway, the launch date of Facebook VR, Zuckerberg did not call. However, given the pace of the company, it is safe to say that the virtual Mars and other exotic locations in the Universe the inhabitants of the Earth will visit much sooner than expedition Mask.

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