When in 2014, Facebook took over the Oculus company, many were the users who had opted for the Kickstarter project where it had been presented, they expressed their discomfort after announcing the purchase of Facebook. Two years later the bad omens were fulfilled when the Oculus Rift arrived on the market leaving a bad taste in the mouth of many of those interested in this new sector, since the HTC Vive, it had also launched a model far superior to that of Facebook.
Both models are within the reach of few people, not only for the price of the equipment, but for the investment that must also be made in a team capable of moving the games. But it seems that by next year that is over, since Facebook is working on VR glasses that will not have to connect to a computer or have to use a smartphone like Samsung's Gear VR.
The best of all, at least initially is the price of them, a very contained price that will be around $ 200, as reported by Bloomberg. In this new project called Pacific, Facebook will rely on Xiaomi to manufacture them, even so it seems too low a price to be able to offer similar features to those that we can find in the Oculus Rift or in the HTC Vive.
According to the publication, these new virtual reality glasses ewill be managed by a Qualcomm chip, which no matter how powerful it is, I doubt that it is capable of offering the same quality as today's less powerful desktop computers. Facebook wants everyone to have access to this type of device, but if what it is going to launch on the market is an economic model with very fair features, it should be dedicated to something else, because for that we can make use of the Gear VR from Samsung that also incorporate a touch.
A few days ago we informed you of the price drop the Oculus Rift had received, leaving the final product with the controls at 449 euros, a movement that already I could sense a second generation Oculus Rift, but not a low-cost model with which surely, it may be the end of virtual reality for Facebook, precisely now that it has signed the former international head of Xiaomi, Hugo Barra, who surely will have had a lot to do with it. see with the agreement for the manufacture of these new glasses.