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October 6, 2016 05:46 pm GMT

Oculus is building standalone VR headset that doesn't need a phone or PC

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There are two kinds of VR headsets right now: smartphone-based ones like the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View, and PC-based ones like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The two offer low-end and high-end VR experiences, respectively.

There's really nothing in the middle yet, but at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to change that. He believes self-contained, standalone VR headsets that don't need a phone or a PC will occupy that space and revealed Facebook-owned Oculus is building one.

SEE ALSO: 1 million people use VR every month: Oculus

The prototype standalone VR headset Zuckerberg showed on stage looks very much like an Oculus Rift, just sans the cables needed to connect to a PC. Read more...

More about Zuckerberg, Facebook, Prototypes, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Vr

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