> Unlike the Oculus Santa Cruz, the Oculus Go doesn’t include full motion controllers or futuristic inside-out tracking technology, which lets users walk around rooms with no external cameras. It allows you to rotate your head, but not lean or walk around. You can move its small controller like a laser pointer, but not fully mimic a virtual hand. It’s got basically the same features as Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR, but as a dedicated piece of hardware, not a combination of smartphone and plastic shell.
So basically it's another one of those "turn your smartphone into VR" without needing the smartphone.
Gear does have a head model, you can tell really easily in pretty much every Gear/Go game by looking at parallax differences between near and far objects.
TLDR: "Overall, Go's performance should be on par with a Galaxy S8 or better."
It's pretty much the same hardware as a GearVR with an S8. The big difference is that it is physically larger, so the thermals are greatly improved. Thermal throttling may be the largest bottleneck in mobile VR.
There's no "6 degrees of freedom" here, just head orientation, much like the Gear VR and so on. It's significantly more basic than the Rift in that regard.
> Unlike the Oculus Santa Cruz, the Oculus Go doesn’t include full motion controllers or futuristic inside-out tracking technology, which lets users walk around rooms with no external cameras. It allows you to rotate your head, but not lean or walk around. You can move its small controller like a laser pointer, but not fully mimic a virtual hand. It’s got basically the same features as Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR, but as a dedicated piece of hardware, not a combination of smartphone and plastic shell.
So basically it's another one of those "turn your smartphone into VR" without needing the smartphone.