{"id":19027,"date":"2018-05-01T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317325"},"modified":"2018-05-01T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:31:00","slug":"oculus-opens-orders-for-its-200-standalone-vr-headset-oculus-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/oculus-opens-orders-for-its-200-standalone-vr-headset-oculus-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus opens orders for its $200 standalone VR headset: Oculus Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus has opened up orders for its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307422\/Oculus_Go_is_Oculus_standalone_199_VR_headset.php\">first standalone VR headset<\/a> Oculus Go, which retails at\u00a0$199 USD for 32 GB of storage or $249 USD for 64 GB.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the standalone headset features\u00a0built-in spatial audio and an integrated microphone, while things like headset weight, support straps, and facial interface have all been optimized for comfort.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oculus Go launch with several apps and games including an updated\u00a0Oculus Rooms, originally released for the Gear VR, which features customizable environments, more life-like avatars,\u00a0 tabletop games\u00a0from Hasbro, and the ability to watch full-length movies from the\u00a0Oculus Store.<\/p>\n<p>Orders,\u00a0including bulk orders,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oculus.com\">are open now<\/a>\u00a0and, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0revealed at the F8 developer\u00a0conference earlier today, start shipping today. Interested developers can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/oculus.com\/business\">Oculus&#8217; business site<\/a> for more information.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus has opened up orders for its\u00a0first standalone VR headset Oculus Go, which retails at\u00a0$199 USD for 32 GB of storage or $249 USD for 64 GB. According to a press release, the standalone headset features\u00a0built-in spatial audio and an integrated microphone, while things like headset weight, support straps, and facial interface have all been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19027","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\/19027","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=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}