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    Oculus Go

    Jun 08, 2018 6 minutes

    SPECIFICATIONS

    Screen 2560x1440 75Hz Storage 32GB (£199), 64GB (£249) Weight 468g

    From £199 oculus.com

    The Oculus Rift kick-started the current wave of interest in virtual reality. So far it has proven to be more of a gently lapping, Mediterranean kind of wave rather than a Malibu-style point break, but there is definitely a lot of interest.

    Reality bites

    What nobody has quite been able to do so far is put virtual reality in an affordable, simple format that doesn’t require donning a massive pair of astronaut goggles tethered by wires to a PC or console. Okay, there is the Gear VR, also made by Oculus, but that’s only for Galaxy phone owners and it requires you to use your phone as the screen and processor, which feels a bit weird to us.

    But now Oculus has released the Oculus Go. It costs £199 (32GB memory; £249 for 64GB) and is self-contained: the headset houses the computer required to run it, and the fast-refreshing

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