It was in 2018 that Facebook strongly bet on virtual reality by buying the company Oculus for 2 billion dollars. At the time, they launched the Oculus Go with an affordable price and great features. A two-year jump and it’s time to fire them. Facebook announced the Oculus Quests with a new technology called 6DOF that will allow the user to have more mobility.
“As technology has evolved rapidly since the launch of Go, it has helped us demonstrate the value of position tracking with the incredible experiences it has created for 6DOF VR, and we are ready to replicate that.” “Facebook said in the official statement. As such, we will no longer accept Oculus Go apps or app updates in the store after December 4, 2020 and no longer publish any Go apps after December 18, 2020, “they concluded.
Eye Quest. Photo: Eye
Yes well… and what is 6DOF VR?
Oculus Go started – and to this day – as a 3DOF device independent virtual reality. It means that its capacity is limited to rotational movements in applications and games they don’t need an additional device, just like smartphones are for the screen.
For its part, 6DOF (Six Degrees of Freedom) technology focuses on dramatically improving mobility features on new lenses without the need for an additional camera. Users will now be able to perform rotational and translational movements. This will give users a much more natural environment in virtual reality by allowing them to jump, dodge and dodge objects.
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Content for Oculus Quest
In the same announcement of its new Oculus Quest lenses, Facebook announced that its arrival would be accompanied by new content. “We have established a high level of content in Quest to build a platform where people have confidence in the quality of the titles they buy, and developers know that their investments have a high chance of success”, they explain in the statement.
They continue: “This strategy works: in fact, We recently shared that people spent more than $ 100 million on Quest content and more than 10 titles generated more than 2 million Quest revenue. “.
Oculus Quest. Photo: Oculus YouTube
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Although the company has declared that from December 4, no more applications or updates will be accepted in Oculus Go and that from December 18, new applications will no longer be published, it is important to mention that Facebook will continue to make corrections to its previous goals as well as security fixes until 2022.
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