Oculus Rift Price and Release Date Announced: $600 USD , April 2016 -

[José Mourinho]

FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS (PLUS ONE)

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Pre-orders are now open for the Oculus Rift, and it'll cost you $600 USD / £500 / €700.

The VR headsets are to be released in waves. The first one is scheduled for March, but this allotment has now sold out. The listing currently says that the "expected ship date" is April 2016.

You can pre-order now from the Oculus shop, where orders are limited to one per customer. The price tag "does not include tax and shipping."

The package includes a headset, sensor, Oculus Remote, cables, an Xbox One Controller, and the games EVE: Valkyrie and Lucky's Tale.

Founder of Oculus Palmer Luckey has Tweeted that "Rift+PC bundles are starting at $1499 USD. Might be able to build on your own cheaper, but good option for normal people."

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

So basically 600 bucks for a pair of monitors strapped to you head?

Pass

 

[AN/ALR56]

VR is just a fad,like 4k,kinect,3d,etc.
It's too expensive to be popular and doesn't have content to justify the purchase price or the user base for making devs create said content.

 

[Strelok]

I suspect it'll gain a lot of traction in certain communities, namely racing sims, flight sims, etc, stuff where the current solution is ungodly large monitors and heavy hardware to actually pump out a decent frame rate on rendering 3 scenes at once. In applications like that it's actually a very, very attractive prospect, especially with the depth perception and peripheral vision issues that 2d monitors have in games such as those. A traditional Triple Monitor setup can run you $700 -$900 with the cost of monitors and the mounting solutuion, and that's not counting the desk space it takes up.

It's in those communities you've seen a lot of the VR work being done, the simulation communities, and other ones where the character is in a sort of cockpit. That said I imagine the Occulus itself is going to have issues once that open source alternative happens, and far cheaper alternatives start flooding the market. Sorta the iPhone vs Android situation, without the household brand recognition the apple products had, or the massive head start at getting to market.

I should add that those communities also have a ton of money to throw around, as a large portion aren't traditional gamers, but members of the real version of the hobby who are looking to either cut costs by moving to a virtual version, or get extra time in their hobby. Alot of my opponents in iRacing for instance, are in their 30s and 40s and have raced in the real world on an amateur level (think your local 1/2 mile dirt track) but as they got into proper adult ages couldn't afford pissing their money away every week at the local track (Tires alone will set you back $500).

 

[Quijibo69]

I can buy a gaming computer with that kind of cash. I don't see it taking off any time soon. pfff!

VR is sooo 90's and cheesy!

 

[autisticdragonkin]

How long until they make porn for it

 

[Splendid]

How long until they make porn for it

Softcore porn has already been done.

 

[exball]

How long until they make porn for it

Too late.

 

[Dr. Meme]

thought the big thing about the oculus is that its supposed to be affordable

$600 for gaymer goggles is not affordable

 

[Surtur]

Its not unreasonable for the technology they packed into it. The cost of a smart phone not on a plan cost more than that.

 

[CatParty]

only $600?
why not impulse buy one. now i'm interested

 

[Sperglord Dante]

thought the big thing about the oculus is that its supposed to be affordable

$600 for gaymer goggles is not affordable

"affordable" as in "this shit doesn't cost thousands of dollars" not affordable as in "I can buy half a dozen with my monthly "

 

[José Mourinho]

 

[Somar]

$600? thanks but I'll stick to the Samsung Gear VR, It's actually pretty cool and I would highly recommend it to people with a Galaxy smartphone, especially since it's $500 cheaper then the Oculus Rift and powered by the same company.

 

[Accel_Rider]

The future is now.

 

[Splendid]

The future is now.

The number of people who would legit buy this, even if you couldn't fuck the girls, it astounding.

 

[AnOminous]

FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS (PLUS ONE)

So for just about $600 you can be guaranteed to die alone?

 

[AN/ALR56]

$600? thanks but I'll stick to the Samsung Gear VR, It's actually pretty cool and I would highly recommend it to people with a Galaxy smartphone, especially since it's $500 cheaper then the Oculus Rift and powered by the same company.

It requires a 600$ phone to run

 

[Strelok]

It requires a 600$ phone to run

If I wanted an overpriced phone with no expandable memory and an unremovable battery, I'd just buy an iPhone.

 

[AN/ALR56]

If I wanted an overpriced phone with no expandable memory and an unremovable battery, I'd just buy an iPhone.

You can squeeze in another Android phone from what I read about,but you lose some functionality.