Facebook plans cheaper VR headset. SAN FRANCISCO»

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to be realizing a sobering reality about his company’s expansion into virtual reality. The headsets that Facebook’s Oculus subsidiary has been making to put users into artificial worlds have been too expensive. Zuckerberg says Oculus will tackle the problem with a stand-alone headset that will set at a fraction of the price of its Rift headset that requires a connection to a personal computer.