{"id":16520,"date":"2018-09-27T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16520"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:22:58","slug":"facebook-announces-new-oculus-quest-vr-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16520","title":{"rendered":"Facebook announces new Oculus Quest VR headset"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook CEO debuts the Oculus Quest in San Jose, California. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Facebook is launching another virtual reality headset that doesn’t need a PC to work. This one might make serious gamers happy.<\/h2>\n

The Oculus Quest will be released next Spring and retail for $399. <\/p>\n

CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new hardware at the Oculus Connect conference in San Jose, California, on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The latest VR headset from Oculus combines the mobility of its standalone, $199 Oculus Go with some of the power of its Oculus Rift, which must be tethered to a computer to work. <\/p>\n

The Quest has some improvements over the Go, including better position tracking through four wide-angle cameras. <\/p>\n

Facebook says users will be able to wander around in up to 4,000 square feet of space <\/strong>while using the headset. It comes with handheld motion controllers and will work with 50 existing Oculus <\/strong>applications when it ships. <\/p>\n

Facebook bought Oculus for $3 billion<\/a> in 2014 with the belief that immersive virtual reality would be a place people could socialize in the future. <\/p>\n

The company previously launched Facebook Spaces<\/a>, a virtual reality social network that lets cartoon versions of people interact in virtual locations. <\/p>\n

CNNMoney (San Francisco) <\/span> First published September 26, 2018: 6:34 PM ET<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook CEO debuts the Oculus Quest in San Jose, California. Facebook is launching another virtual reality headset that doesn’t need a PC to work. This one might make serious gamers happy. The Oculus Quest will be released next Spring and retail for $399. CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new hardware at the Oculus Connect conference…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}