When it comes to VR hardware, so far there are mobile-based headsets that require a smartphone, and there are higher-end headsets that connect with wires to gaming consoles or PCs. Facebook’s Oculus, it seems, is working on something in-between. At the Oculus Connect 3 event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Oculus is in the process of developing a new headset that will work without mobile phones, cables, or outside PCs. (The project still doesn’t have a name.) The new headset will make use of what Facebook is calling “inside-out tracking” – in other words, it will let users move through a virtual three-dimensional space without the need for any external hardware made for positional tracking.

Also at the Oculus Connect 3: The company announced some new products, including the new Oculus Touch controllers (shipping December 6), which allow Oculus Rift headset users to physically manipulate virtual objects. And Oculus announced that it will begin selling a new head-tracking camera for the Rift, which will allow the headset to track a users’ movements around an area in a room. (I.e., room-scale VR.) The new head-tracking camera will cost an additional $80. The Rift itself costs $600.