RE: Absolutely Elkinator20 Jun 2018 15:43
Hobbit01, I'm still undecided on the price of Santa Cruz and whether it will hit a mainstream price point. 6dof head and controller tracking with a beefed up mobile processor over the current GO's is a lot to cram into a mobile standalone headset and can't see how they would come close to the GO's price point or what could be considered a mainstream price point especially when you look at the HTC vive focus's price point which I would still consider expensive to the average mainstream potential customer. I have been amazed at the GO's price and how they have hit that point in relation to cost and It really wouldn't surprise me, I'm almost hoping Oculus are taking a loss/break even on the GO and up coming Santa Cruz purely to drive adoption in this first phase of standalone headsets. With Facebook's goal of having a billion VR users and never really seriously being in the hardware space I see the Oculus buy out simply as a play to drive adoption so again might be a contributing factor to such a low price, if this were the case short term it looks crap for Facebook on the books but long term once device adoption grows I'm sure it would pay off for them. So I hope they can amaze us with a mainstream consumer friendly price for the Santa Cruz, based on tech specs I wouldn't expect it if they want to make a profit on the device however if that isn't their plan in the back ground and its all about adoption Santa Cruz could be cheaper than we expect. Fingers crossed!