{"id":184708,"date":"2016-10-26T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=184708"},"modified":"2016-10-26T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:59:33","slug":"cheap-microsoft-virtual-reality-headsets-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/184708-cheap-microsoft-virtual-reality-headsets-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Microsoft virtual reality headsets announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has partnered with hardware manufacturers to ship virtual reality headsets from early 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The VR headsets will be made by companies such as\u00a0HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer, and will start from $299 (R4,157).<\/p>\n<p>The headsets will start shipping with the Windows 10 Creators Update between March and May 2017, said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>All the VR headsets will ship with six-degrees-of-freedom sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also demonstrated\u00a0&#8220;Holotour&#8221; &#8211; which allows you to explore and interact with new places &#8211; which will run on Windows 10.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/184700-windows-10-creators-update-announced.html\">Windows 10 Creators Update announced<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has stated that hardware partners will bring affordable virtual reality headsets to the market in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,123,29210,26970,39518],"class_list":["post-184708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-virtual-reality-vr","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-10-creators-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184714,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184708\/revisions\/184714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}