{"id":118021,"date":"2020-09-14T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370131"},"modified":"2020-09-14T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:56:00","slug":"facebooks-oculus-quest-2-leaks-ahead-of-official-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/14\/facebooks-oculus-quest-2-leaks-ahead-of-official-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Oculus Quest 2 leaks ahead of official reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is readying to announce a new VR headset, and while doing so seems to have accidentally leaked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r4EPMxJiJRQ\">duo<\/a> of its promotional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_b8xf2DpAMk\">videos<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>That new headset is the Oculus Quest 2, a follow up to its earlier standalone VR headset the Oculus Quest. Both the headset and its accompanying controllers have received a visual overhaul and, as noted in the video, the new headset also brings built-in support for controller-less hand-tracking.<\/p>\n<p>One video outlines the device as a streamlined, smaller, and lighter take on the Quest that offers 50 percent more pixels than its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Under the hood, the unannounced headset is powered by the VR and AR-centric Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform, a display that\u2019s \u201calmost 4K,&#8221; 6GB of RAM, and as much as 256 GB of built-in storage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Given the timing, it\u2019s likely the device is one of the announcements planned for Facebook Connect, the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/368810\/Facebooks_VR_rebranding_changes_Oculus_Connect_to_Facebook_Connect.php\">recently rebranded dev conference<\/a>, on September 16.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[embedded content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is readying to announce a new VR headset, and while doing so seems to have accidentally leaked a duo of its promotional videos online. That new headset is the Oculus Quest 2, a follow up to its earlier standalone VR headset the Oculus Quest. Both the headset and its accompanying controllers have received a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}