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oculus is cutting the VR cord and working on a wireless headset that's according to a report from Bloomberg which says the company plans to release a $200 headset in 2018 it wouldn't need a PC or a phone to run and is supposedly more powerful than the Samsung gear VR at the moment there are two main ways to experience VR through a smartphone headset like the gear VR or daydream and high-end platforms like the oculus rift that are tethered to big beefy computers to run so this new wireless headset could be a big deal but there's one potential issue according to the report the device might lack positional tracking that's the ability for the device to know where you are in the room we know oculus can do wireless and positional tracking though because at the end of 2016 CNET tried a prototype called Santa Cruz with this very feature and other companies have already announced their own headsets with positional tracking like Intel's project alloy and Google's standalone VR headsets with HTC and Lenovo the rumored oculus device is codenamed Pacific and it's designed for gaming video watching and using social media don't forget oculus is owned by Facebook and they've got a big stake in the social VR world at the company's developer conference earlier this year CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook spaces a way to interact with your Facebook friends in VR using an oculus rift position yourself with all the latest tech news at cnet.com