Standalone VR is in the works at Facebook/Oculus.
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Oculus is working on a standalone VR headset

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that the company’s Oculus division is working on a standalone version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, with no wires and no connection to a PC.

Zuckerberg announced the prototype at the Oculus Connect developer event in San Jose, California, where 2,500 developers are attending the three-day event. He said that the prototype sits between mobile VR, where you use a headset with a mobile phone’s screen such as the Samsung Gear VR and the Google Pixel, and the Oculus Rift, which connects through wires to a PC.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.