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good morning welcome to oculus connect 3 so we have a lot to share today to get started I'd like to welcome Mark Zuckerberg we're here to make virtual reality the next major computing platform you know the magic of VR software is this feeling of presence we should build software and experiences that follow the way that we that our minds work in the way that we process the world first live demo and VR hey guys how's it going hey Mark it's great to see ya hey Mark I can smile I can look surprised Oh take a look at your own avatar well why did you make me look like a young version of Justin Timberlake how could I take us to the bottom of the ocean sounds good alright welcome to Mars you want to play a game oh it sounds great let's try let's try a quick game with cards huh there we go two for you two for you all right what do we plan let's just do a quick game of high card ready flipping over on three one two three huh I win out there I'll go first wave it's Center aboard making my own row that's really good this you're like so gonna go like that alright I know it haha watch a simple video now unlike on the phone I can zoom this up to any size with light Hey hi how's it going there is one more kind of software that I'm really excited to talk about today and that's computer vision software today there are two primary categories of virtual reality products right there's mobile but it's a great and affordable experience the second category is PCP are the highest quality of virtual reality experience that you can get today we believe that there is a sweet spot between these we're working on this now and we're going to continue making progress on computer vision until we can unlock this completely new category of virtual reality product I want to talk about a few of the platform investments that we're making but there's another content ecosystem that we think is super important you can think of this ecosystem as the VR web the VR web is going to be one of the easiest ways to develop and share your content so you can imagine receiving a URL hitting that link and instantly being teleported inside this car this is a really neat demo you can actually configure the car live and see it and this is all this all this can all run at 90 FPS on rift so today we want to enable social presence at the platform level I'm excited to introduce oculus avatars people can actually feel like themselves and easily recognize their friends so first things first I've got the hairstyle and face shape and my avatar so I'm going to go for something a little bit you know that's a look I want to go for let's try putting them on oh yeah I'm gonna go for this I got the scarf guy you know the bowtie guy by metal first so Wow okay so oculus avatars are going to be launching on rift at touch launch we also have them coming to mobile in early 2017 you've wanted to be able to talk to your friends wallet VR so I'm excited to announce parties with parties up to eight people can talk while you're in VR today we're excited to announce oculus rooms there's a bunch of different things to do in the room itself you can watch TV with some of the best videos available on Facebook you can listen to music with friends and you could play minigames with up to eight people and look at all of the options we have to explore together both parties and oculus rooms will be shipping on gear in a few weeks and early next year on rift so now let's jump back to the oculus ready program we started with six partners and eleven machines over the last year we've grown this program to 11 partners and more than 40 machines and like I said this spec started around $1000 last year you can now get in for under $700 now let's talk about the rift headset now we want to give you a new option for even deeper immersion the oculus earphones these sound is good as some of the highest end earphones in the world so oculus earphones will be available for $49 and start shipping later this year now let's talk about touch touch delivers the magic of VR imput touches $1.99 and start shipping in volume December 6 you'll be able to pre-order touch online and in retail worldwide on October 12 10 october 10 we're also bundling two of our favorite titles with all pre-orders VR sports and the unspoken will touch support room scale yes it will we've created a room scale option using a third sensor and extra sensors will be available for purchase for $79 and SCHIP on December 6 we are incredibly pleased to announce a collaboration with walt disney studios we're going to bring Blade Runner to the our our promise it's to deliver the best VR products the best VR platform and the innovations that continue to drive this industry forward I realize that you could find almost any type of content that you wanted on the except for the one thing that we all care the most about which is what's going on with the people that we care about around us so so I built that and it's going pretty well so far