{"id":19893,"date":"2018-05-08T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T02:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2018-05-08T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T02:12:18","slug":"go-ogling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19893","title":{"rendered":"Go ogling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I bought the Oculus Go. So did a number of my friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>In one sense it&#8217;s not really new. After all, I first started using their GearVR in September 2015, and in theory this is the same sort of experience: A portable 360<sup>o<\/sup> VR device with high quality direction tracking.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what they say about theory and practice: They are the same in theory, but different in practice.<\/p>\n<p>The major difference is that the Oculus Go is designed from the ground up to be a VR device, rather than an add-on to your phone.  Out of the box it just works &#8212; no need to stick a phone in it.<\/p>\n<p>The visual design of the device is great, the quality and resolution of the VR image is spectacular, and the user interface is extremely well thought out. Even the hand-held controller is awesome. And for around $200 total this thing is very inexpensive for what it delivers.<\/p>\n<p>Although I thought it needed a little character, so I stuck on some Googly Eyes.  For good measure I also added a nose:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/googly_go.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I feel my Oculus Go now expresses much more inherent personality. Although from certain angles it seems to look a little sad.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just confused. After all, should something sold by Facebook really be wearing something called Googly Eyes?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I bought the Oculus Go. So did a number of my friends and colleagues. In one sense it&#8217;s not really new. After all, I first started using their GearVR in September 2015, and in theory this is the same sort of experience: A portable 360o VR device with high quality direction tracking. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go ogling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19896,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions\/19896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}