Oculus Quest will cut the cords but keep the hand-tracking when it arrives next year

Oculus announced a brand new set of wireless VR goggles last night, this time in the form of the Oculus Quest. Before you start thinking, ‘Hang on a sec, this is just another one of those Oculus Go mobile-type gubbins, isn’t it?’, bear with me.

For unlike the Oculus Go, the Oculus Quest offers the same hand-tracking Touch controllers you get with the Oculus Rift proper, as well as the same six degrees of free movement you get on Rift, all without the need for a PC, wires or external motion sensors. It’s almost like this is what VR headsets should have been like when they first came out two and a bit years ago, isn’t it? Here’s what we know so far.

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