Oculus Connect 2016
The Oculus Rift may have started the virtual reality revolution, but recent weeks haven’t been overly kind to the start-up turned multi-million dollar VR headset. Competitors have begun to eclipse it, and a scandal involving its creator hasn’t done the company any favors.
Worse, the headset was slow in coming to market, and when it finally arrived for consumers to buy, units were scarce and even those who pre-ordered waited months to get one. Meanwhile the competing HTC Vive is looking better and better to VR developers.
Reports are Rift sales (and Vive sales, to be fair) may be tanking, whatever Luckey has to say about it. And the recent alleged leak of the Oculus Touch controller price is the cherry on top.
That being said, if the long-awaited Rift controllers really cost £190 (about $250) at checkout Oculus will have even more convincing to do at Connect 2016, its annual virtual reality conference, to win a waning audience back on its side.
In Oculus’s defense, it’s been an uphill battle all along to convince the world that VR is ready for the mainstream, and it’s arguably …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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