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[Delete-Oculus] "Facebook Connect" 2020 - BINGO!

kevinw729
Honored Visionary

Edit - Wow, what a change a few months can have - with the August news we have had to make some edits to the Bingo card, the "Additional Categories" can be found at the bottom!

For
those new to this, we have held a bingo game covering Oculus Connect event
announcements for the last few years. The rules are simple. Guess which of the
announcements, omissions and surprises take place during the event, to win Big
Prizes(*)



- During Oculus Facebook Connect 7:



1. Oculus will announce a new low-price Quest [10,000-points]

2. Oculus will announce a new high-performance Quest [5,000-points]

3. Oculus will announce partnering with Microsoft (again) [20,000-points]

4. Oculus will reveal Half Dome 4 and claim it will be made [2,000-points]

5. No mention of Lenovo will be made [10,000-points]

6. No mention of Rift-S will be made [5,000-points]

7. Carmack will host his developers talk [2,000-points] *or he will not [10,000-points]

8. Oculus will announce a Rift-S upgrade [10,000-points]

9. Oculus will announce
a new software acquisition [5,000-points]

10. Oculus live feed to the event will crash! [10,000-points]


- ADDITIONAL - During Oculus Facebook Connect 7:

11. Facebook shows the new MR headset on stage [10,000-points]

12. Facebook announces a reversal to the mandatory Logon on Oculus!  [100,000-points]

13. Facebook announces the Oculus operation is now only a brand  [5,000-points]

14. All the old founders of Oculus are invited up on Stage with MarkZ  [100,000,000,000-points]

15. Horizon crashes during Facebook Connect  [10,000-points] *(different to the Live feed)



Calculate your points, to see if you win!


(Please also propose additional scenarios to add to the list)







* = Big Prizes cannot be redeemed for actual items, but are only bragging
rights. Adjudicators [OP] verdict is final on all decisions.

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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Seems speculation had flared up that a High-end Quest may be on the cards? 
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

nalex66
MVP
MVP

kevinw729 said:

Seems speculation had flared up that a High-end Quest may be on the cards? 


Brought to you by SkarredGhost, the same guy who wrote the "Is Quest Killing PCVR?" article. This seems to be speculation more than rumour, but some YouTubers have taken the suggestion and run with it. In this case, the speculation is that of Robert Scoble in an interview. Here's the relevant part of the post:

Talking about the upcoming Oculus Quest, Robert told me “Look inside and not at the box”. According to some voices he has heard, plus some speculations of his, the new device will feature:

  • Better GPU
  • A smaller and more lightweight design
  • Better cameras to provide better hand tracking, room tracking and maybe object tracking
  • 90-120Hz framerate that can be set via software (it seems that Facebook is still discussing what should be the default one)
  • 4K screen


for a price around $600. The Quest 1 will lower its price of $100-150 to foster the adoption.



Robert believes that there’s no need for a cheaper Quest
because he has problems in selling the device because of the resolution
that doesn’t let you read text or enjoy a movie better than on a
physical TV, and not because it should cost $100 less. So he believes it
must be a Pro device: “There’s a bigger market for a better quest than a cheaper quest”.



It seems that Oculus hoped to get it out for Christmas, and they’re still trying, but because of problems with the supply chain (COVID, plus the fact that now Americans can’t fly to China), most probably it will be released in spring 2021.


DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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Anonymous
Not applicable
Sounds like Quest will get some love many hoped the Rift might get.

nalex66
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If the new Quest has 4K screens, it will replace my Rift for PCVR use.

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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RuneSR2
Grand Champion

nalex66 said:

If the new Quest has 4K screens, it will replace my Rift for PCVR use.


Doesn't look right for Oculus to increase the price - if they want to increase adoption. And the pink/white colors that may attract females more... it looked more low-end than the current Quest... 
 4K screen sounds like way too much - Snapdragon 845 and even 855 will be in enough trouble just handling the current Quest screen in 90 Hz...

But I love surprises... Well, some surprises... 

PS. Great use for 4K screen could be watching 4K movies - that could be interesting... 

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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
Thanks @nalex66 - that was the rumor I was alluding too - even our friends at TESTED mentioned it as their own!

I personally am not sure its viable, but am happy to entertain it as a possibility. I think the Quest-Pro would stick a steak in the Rift-S and CV2 possibilities - but if supported by a Quest-Lite would make a good suite of products. 

The key problem with this proposal, would be the performance issues - meaning developers would have two versions of hardware to support, and we have seen the issues that has already caused.
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

nalex66
MVP
MVP
Yeah, I don't know what the basis is for this guy's speculation--maybe he knows something we don't, or maybe he's just pulling it out of his ass. I don't believe that Oculus would go that high in price, but I guess it could happen--that's only $100 more than the current Quest 128GB. I personally think they'll do better on the price.

4K screen is possible--basically the same as the G2 (2Kx2K per eye). That's about 25% more pixels vertically than the current Quest, and a little more increase horizontally, which would fit with the wider-looking lenses. A few more weeks to find out...

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGV2asZanI
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

nalex66
MVP
MVP

RuneSR2 said:


nalex66 said:

If the new Quest has 4K screens, it will replace my Rift for PCVR use.


Doesn't look right for Oculus to increase the price - if they want to increase adoption. And the pink/white colors that may attract females more... it looked more low-end than the current Quest... 
 4K screen sounds like way too much - Snapdragon 845 and even 855 will be in enough trouble just handling the current Quest screen in 90 Hz...

But I love surprises... Well, some surprises... 

PS. Great use for 4K screen could be watching 4K movies - that could be interesting... 


4K would be more useful for PCVR than native Quest apps (but could also be used for media viewing). I believe the current Quest uses 1Kx1K per eye as the default render target, despite the 1600p screen resolution. In Link mode, it uses a default render target of around 1800x2000 per eye (slightly higher than the Rift S default render target).

In any event, higher res screens would provide improved screen-door effect regardless of the render resolution.

DK2, CV1, Go, Quest, Quest 2, Quest 3.


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RedRizla
Honored Visionary
I'm pleased the next Oculus Quest might use 2k per eye but is it still going to be too front heavy? Comfort is the main thing I look for in a VR headset followed by visuals. I was hoping to see the battery moved to the back of the headset.