Virtual reality technology will reach $ 99 – Daily News – Lisbon

Cheaper than this will be difficult. Samsung and Facebook today announced the release of new version of virtual reality goggles Gear VR during Oculus Connect 2 conference, taking place in Hollywood. It is the second model fruit of the partnership between Samsung and Oculus and was revealed on stage at the Dolby Theater by Peter Koo, vice president of Samsung Mobile.

“We wanted to make it accessible to the whole we can enjoy the mobile virtual reality motion, “said the executive, in announcing that the price will be $ 99 – half of what it did the first version a year ago. Hits stores “in time for Black Friday in the United States”, that is, November 27, and the rest of the world soon after. “Together, we are making the virtual reality into reality,” Koo said.

The new glasses work with all Samsung range tops launched in 2015, the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge +, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, allowing an immersion in the virtual world through the phone and not the computer. Besides the aesthetic redesign, the new version is 22% lighter and “more comfortable for the user.” One of the problems of such devices is that they do hurt the head and neck after some time of use, and Samsung wants to solve it. The de-velopment was made by Oculus, now that Facebook bought and launch their own model, Rift in the first quarter 2016.

Precisely p “or because of the involvement of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made an appearance surprise in the keynote. It made no great revelations, just showing a few minutes to tell how he fell in love with virtual reality Oculus and as the last two years of development of this new version. “We are just now ready to launch the first consumer products,” he noted, saying that everyone in this event have the “opportunity to change the way we play, communicate and collaborate.”

Are 1500 programmers in the second conference Annual Oculus, offering 30 presentations, demos and workshops to Friday. “Facebook is committed to the virtual reality in the long run,” said Mark Zuckerberg.