LOS ANGELES — VR Bangers has announced its plans to support the upcoming Oculus Quest headset.
According to the company, time flies and it’s already been a year since Facebook’s last VR event.
“At the latest Oculus Connect 5, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has given us a whole lot of new interesting facts — yet one of them is by far much more important than the others,” says a company spokesperson. “During the conference, which happened a few days ago in San Jose, new virtual reality goggles from Oculus were officially announced. Known so far as the ‘Santa Cruz’ project, the headset will go on sale in the spring of 2019 under the name of the Oculus Quest.”
First announced nearly two years ago, the Oculus “Santa Cruz” VR goggles are a standalone device that does not need a computer or external motion sensors to operate, similar to the Oculus GO, Lenovo Mirage Solo or Vive Focus, with the difference of offering full tracking of the head and hands.
This ability is provided by an inside-out tracking system called “Oculus Insight,” which is based on cameras integrated into the front panel that record both the user’s movements and the Oculus Touch controllers held in his hands.
“That is the part of this announcement that adult entertainment companies like VR Bangers find especially interesting,” the spokesperson explains. “Just imagine the capabilities of such a tracking system for adult entertainment VR.”
As key movers of the VR industry, porn companies must make sure their experiences support all the newest technologies. As Oculus is one of the biggest VR headset manufacturers in the world, and their goggles are expected to be bestsellers when they come out in 2019, they are in the spotlight for content producers.
“Even though our list of supported VR goggles is already quite impressive, we plan on adding the Oculus Quest VR visor to our selection and we are already thinking about the capabilities of incredible Oculus Insight technology for our VR porn films,” says VR Bangers’ CEO Daniel Abramovich. “We have just started working on providing the support for them and getting a pair for our exclusive tests, so by the time they will show up, our visitors and members will be able to use them to watch our immersive VR porn videos!”
The full specifications for Oculus Quest goggles have not been revealed, but rumors point to power supplied by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC and “top-class optics” (the same as in Oculus GO), as well as a display with a resolution of 1600x1440 for each eye running at 72fps. The device will also have a built-in audio system and will be sold in a set with Oculus Touch motion controllers and 64 GB of built-in memory for roughly $400.
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