Oculus’s new and upcoming VR standalone headset is officially called Oculus Quest and it’s due to hit the market in the spring of 2019 for $399 for the 64GB model, and it will feature resolution of 1600×1440 per eye.
The new headset will ship with more than 50 titles, plus developers are working to bring notable Rift VR games such as Robo Recall, The Climb and Moss. Oculus Quest has long been the light at the end of the tunnel for Oculus VR. Developers have promised that it will be a powerful, self-contained headset capable of delivering the vision of VR that folks have been dreaming of for decades. Everything we’ve seen about it so far lends credence to this claim.
The Oculus Quest headset offers motion-controlled gaming in a standalone device, complete with six degrees of freedom and true wireless gaming. There are no sensors or strings trailing out of the headset, instead using “inside-out” tracking to tell how players are moving. Oculus calls this technology Insight and says it uses four ultra wide-angle sensors plus computer vision algorithms to keep tabs on players and the motion controllers.
Quest is a few steps up from Oculus Go, the company’s $200 wireless VR model. The Go is similar internally to the Gear VR, a mobile-driven headset, though it doesn’t rely on a smartphone to run. Meanwhile, Quest is positioned to compete against PC-quality VR headsets, but without any tethers.
We know that the Oculus Quest will be lightweight, comfortable and freeing, without any wires tying players to a PC. It will also include updated Touch controllers and innovative VR audio.
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