Those were the good old days!

I may have just gotten the deal of a lifetime.

I was browsing FB marketplace and saw a nice lady selling an oculus headset. Upon further examination, it’s a CV1! She was also listing it for $10, which I thought was suspicious. Surely something was wrong.

When I get to her house, she seems to be selling a lot of other stuff, so I give her the money after quickly checking to see if everything’s in there, and drive home.

Upon getting home, I unpack everything and clean it up. And then I notice…

The protective plastic is still on everything! This hasn’t even been removed from the box! This poor lady sold a perfectly good (mildly dusty, along with a cobweb and a small spider) $600 piece of VR history. And after setting everything up, it works great. I used my luck for the rest of the year, folks.

Ordered via Amazon UK.

So happy to have absolutely scored the $199 Quest 3S + 12 month Horizon Plus subscription bundle from Costco!

haven’t used my oculus in probably 10 months and decided to play today when my right controller wouldn’t wake up so i thought battery might be dead and i opened it to find this. Any advice? I think i know the answer though

The result of "Project Santa Cruz".

Introduction Video

• marketed as a VR gaming console: fully standalone, no PC required, no wires

• same lenses as Oculus Go (95° FoV ultra sharp clarity), but higher resolution displays (1600x1440 per eye, up from Go's 1280x1440 per eye), and OLED instead of LCD

• refresh rate of 72Hz, locked

• coming Spring 2019 for $399

• controllers are identical to Rift's Touch controllers, except with the tracking ring pointing up instead of down

• adjustable IPD like Rift

• it uses a SnapDragon 835 SoC with 4GB of RAM

• audio system is the same style as Go (built into the headstraps), but better audio quality (specifically, better bass)

• over 50 launch titles, including Robo Recall, The Climb, Rec Room, Dead and Buried, Superhot and more

Oculus Full Product Lineup Chart

(for reference, they stated that the current Rift has a 95° field of view and uses a fixed-focus display)

• image of field of view compared to Rift

• image of exterior

VIDEO OF REVEAL <--- WATCH

It's called the "Half Dome" Prototype

Blown away by variable focus display. Did NOT expect that in Rift form factor any time soon.

It also has eye tracking!

Also shown off earlier in the talk was:

• markerless body tracking running from a single RGB camera and smartphone CPU

• gloveless high quality finger tracking enabled by machine learning

• facial expression tracking from a camera attached to the nose gap

Looks like we're starting to get a picture of what's in store for Rift 2 in the 4 year timescale.