Oculus' Santa Cruz VR headset proves the future of VR is wireless

The future of VR is wireless.

Today, Oculus announced that its standalone VR headset prototype, the Santa Cruz, will be available to developers in the next year. The company didn't provide further details of when exactly that would be, but they were giving demos of its latest prototype at its Oculus Connect conference and I was able to take the latest version for a spin.

I was impressed with the demo I had last year of the early prototype, even though it was a pretty limited proof-of-concept more than anything else. So I was excited to see that Facebook has made significant progress in the last year. Read more...