Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg showed off the company's first foray into the mobile virtual reality platform.

The 32-year-old Internet entrepreneur discussed about his company's latest VR headset on the stage of the Oculus Connect developers' conference.

Although the upcoming device is still a prototype, a few of its features have instantly caught the eye of many tech analysts. For one, this standalone virtual reality headset has positional tracking feature. In a video demonstration, the headset appears to be a modified Oculus Rift with a module located on the back of the headset.

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Tech Crunch revealed that the positional tracking technology integrated into the device allows the headset to understand where the user stands in the physical world and properly adjusts the onscreen renders accordingly. This feature is a big breakthrough especially since current generation virtual reality headsets are limited only to a fixed viewpoint.

With this new positional tracking technology, users can walk through the virtual reality experience and be able to enjoy the renders from almost every angle.

Following the reveal, many virtual reality enthusiasts and experts instantly lauded the technology as "real VR."

Zuckerberg admitted, however, that the development of the technology is still in its early phase.

Apart from this new project, the billionaire also shared that they are aiming to create the technology as affordable as possible in order to reach a wider audience.

Positional tracking technology has been a staple feature for major high-end VR headsets such as the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift, and the recently released PlayStation VR.

With this latest announcement, Oculus is essentially closing the gap between high-end virtual reality headsets with their more affordable mobile VR counterparts.

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