Oculus Rift goes mainstream early 2016

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It's finally happened: Oculus has announced a date for the finished version of its Rift virtual reality headset. The Oculus Rift consumer edition is going to be shipping in the first quarter of 2016, with pre-orders opening later this year.

The Oculus Rift has gone through several iterations since it was launched on Kickstarter in the summer of 2012. It's seen two development kits and multiple prototypes, most recently the "Crescent Bay" design that appeared last year. Crescent Bay uses two small displays, an external tracking camera, and carefully designed software to create the illusion of 3D space. Especially since its acquisition by Facebook in early 2014, Oculus has de-emphasized hard technical detail, but a company blog post says that some specifics for the consumer Rift are coming next week.

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Going to cost a lot of money, need a high end system to run it, and then have to buy the Rift as well. I'm still not that interested in it, personally.

LukeGPosted:

i love oculus rift when i tried it it was so trippy

ArzuaPosted:

Looks awesome but probably quite expensive also.

OGPosted:

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UZl I bet its neat. I would love to try one just to see how far technology has taken us.


Yeah me too I wonder how much they cost though.


Most probably around $600 -$700, then they will start lowering the price since almost no one is going to buy it

TaigaAisakaPosted:

Wasn't the Oculus Rift sold to Facebook last year? Either way, I don't really play enough games that would make VR all that interesting (no, FPS games in a VR doesn't seem interesting to me.)

JamyPosted:

Really really disappointed at the resolution that Oculus have gone and decided to use. Looks like i'll be using SteamVR then instead.

codsturePosted:

I really want to get my hands on one of these

KatsumiChanPosted:

Evo8 I have a feeling the price is going to be steep.


It probably will be around $500-$750

Evo8Posted:

I have a feeling the price is going to be steep.

DPMPosted:

This looks like it will be a lot of fun to use.