In my news feed this morning were several articles about Oculus doing away with the Oculus Go.  It’s a bit of a bummer, as I have 5 of these units in my office for use at the college.  The apps will continue to work, however at a certain point I’m sure that Oculus will stop creating updates and patches, and developers will likely stop making apps and software for the Go.

I can totally see why they did this.  As the articles explain the Oculus Quest is killing it, last I knew it was so popular it’s still on back order. The Quest is a fantastic piece of hardware and I rarely use the Go anymore now that I have a Quest to experiment with.  Overall this is a good sign of progress in VR, older technology being lapped by the new.  Perhaps we will see more options for the Quest, or even an updated model.

Part of me was thinking that this could be a good opportunity to buy up Go’s cheap — but I really don’t have any specific uses for it.  The VirZOOM equipment I use for the exercise bike also works with the Quest, although the Go is really all that’s needed.  In fact, visiting their page just now it seems they have updated it with video and images using mainly the quest, you have to scroll down the page a bit before you see an image using the Go.

Honestly this is one of the things I enjoy about technology, there’s always something new going on!

Going forward I hope to write in this blog more regularly.  I just went through my calendar and saved a bunch of spots for writing and posting for the next few weeks.  I’ve found that scheduling time for writing really helps to make sure it happens.