[UPDATED] Oculus Rift Pre-Orders - 6th Jan

[WiiManic]

SOURCE : https://www1.oculus.com/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-open-on-january-6/

 

Today, we’re excited to announce that pre-orders for Rift will open on Oculus.com at 8am Pacific Time on January 6!

We’ll be sharing everything you need to know to order your Rift on Wednesday when pre-orders go live.

 

As a reminder, every Rift comes bundled with Lucky’s Tale by Playful, and we’re also including CCP’s EVE: Valkyrie for free with every pre-order!

 

Not too much to say here, except how hyped I am! Been waiting since 2012, so I'm more than excited!

How is everyone else feeling?

 

Thats 4pm GMT for us UK lot.

 

 

UPDATE :

 

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, posted this on Reddit to do with why the price hasn't been announced:

This is standard practice in the consumer electronics industry. The price is almost always announced alongside preorders. Phones, game consoles, they all do it this way - it is kind of weird to see people thinking it is some kind of special sign about anything!

 

Guess that is to help tone down the people who think that its because of a very high rift price?

 

That said, I'll post this here to give some people an idea about the pricing, since I realise not everyone keeps up to date as I do!

Its an article explaining why the rift is going to cost more that $350. We don't know how much more, but more than that. 

 

There is also this tweet:

Pre-orders will be global, not US only - We have the required certification in 20 countries, more will follow.

 

FURTHER UPDATE:

 

Palmer still on twitter:

 

No chance of Rift preorders "selling out", we will keep taking preorders for as long as people want EVE: Valkyrie!

 

If enough people pre-order and somehow exhaust all the stock we are building up, later orders will just have a later ship date.

 

[Jamdude]

VR is my next big purchase, I think I'm going to hold off until the Vive is out though.

[Vincent__Thunder]

what is the price?!?!?

[WiiManic]

what is the price?!?!?

Wish I knew! It seems price, full specs and whatever else go live along with the pre-order.

[kacper]

what is the price?!?!?

Nobody knows. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if even Oculus doesn't know the price yet.

 

Last couple of Palmer's tweets weren't that optimistic. It seemed like he was preparing us for something much more expensive than DKs. 

There were some rumours about >500 USD. Hell , even 700 USD. 

 

I'm still wondering how it'll be with non US distribution. Something like 1000 USD in Europe would be really fucked up. 

[Sauron]

Remember kids, NEVER preorder!

[bob345]

One of the few things i will likely ever pre-order. Tried the dk2 and that was fantastic. this one will be even better.

[paps511]

Remember kids, NEVER preorder!

 

TB is flowing through you!

 

But really... Buy it day 1, or after review units are sent out. Especially if it is like order now, ships Dec 2016

[MEC-777]

Just want to know the price... Guess we'll have to wait and see.

[HippY]

I am very very excited, but I am going to wait a bit. 

I am going to wait until:

A: Ocolus Rift CV1 is regarded "the best thing ever" after a month or so, so after the first hype wave is getting a bit smaller

B: HTC Vive comes out and some comparison

 

As much as I want to be an early adopter, that means i will need to upgrade my PC and sink a large amount of cash in there. I might as well wait a bit for something that I am going to use for years

[Sauron]

TB is flowing through you!

 

But really... Buy it day 1, or after review units are sent out. Especially if it is like order now, ships Dec 2016

 

CHANNEL THE BISCUITS

[Sauron]

I think it's funny how he talks about how important it is to keep customers informed, and yet we still don't know the specs or price of the Oculus Rift, 2 days before it goes up for pre-order.

It will be exciting to see what it's like. I don't think pre-ordering it is a good idea though.

 

My hopes reside in Carmack knowing what he's doing

[Sakkura]

HTC Vive has me more hyped than the Facebook Rift. And this tells us practically nothing new, not even the actual release date. Wednesday will be interesting, that's all I got.

[MEC-777]

 

I think it's funny how he talks about how important it is to keep customers informed, and yet we still don't know the specs or price of the Oculus Rift, 2 days before it goes up for pre-order.

It will be exciting to see what it's like. I don't think pre-ordering it is a good idea though.

 

I think it's better to have the specs unknown, keep the product under tight wraps beforehand so as to not create undeserved hype and unrealistic expectations from the customers.  

[Commander Llama]

This is an exciting year. 2016 is going to be a VR bloodbath. Who will come out on top? Truly none of us can know yet.

 

For my part, I am not investing in VR until:

1) A leading headset is more obvious (I'm hoping for the Valve backed one, since I expect it will have the best Steam integration)

2) The next year give or take determines whether this is all just some bullshit expensive gimmick or not

3) The headset that works best with Star Citizen becomes more solidified

[nasses321]

Ohh man! My body is ready!

It will be interesting to see how they will ship the rift, please don't use UPS again!

And I wonder what the price will be with shipping and taxes included, I'm a big VR fan so I would pay a pretty penny, but if it ends up being double the price of the DK2 I would pass.

Also I'm not sure if my R9 290x will have the punch required, my 4790K shouldn't be a problem so that's good!

[jagdtigger]

I am very very excited, but I am going to wait a bit.

I am going to wait until:

A: Ocolus Rift CV1 is regarded "the best thing ever" after a month or so, so after the first hype wave is getting a bit smaller

B: HTC Vive comes out and some comparison

As much as I want to be an early adopter, that means i will need to upgrade my PC and sink a large amount of cash in there. I might as well wait a bit for something that I am going to use for years

Run a 3dmark fire strike ultra, according to them the recommended gaming pc for the rift would reach 2596 points. My 4670k@4,5GHz and r9 290x gets 2845...

[Rune]

Freaking finally.

[Briggsy]

Wonder if they are going to distribute the pre-orders in the same way as the DK2... What was $350 USD for my DK2 ended up being quite a bit more in Canadian dollars when all was said and done. I believe shipping was in USD, so the total ended up being over 500 CND, and then when the item was delivered I had to pay duties/taxes on delivery with credit card.... so the total ended up being somewhere between 550-$600 CND for the DK2. That was back when the Canadian dollar was stronger than it is now. 

 

If I buy the consumer version its going to be from an online retailer in canada, and not through Oculus. Not going through that again lol.

[EChondo]

I'd be willing to do $300 max, anything higher...I don't think I could personally justify the price.

 

I'm hoping it'd be under $300 though.

 

Also hoping that they can make enough to supply the demand...really don't want a constant wave of "Out of Stock" everywhere.

 

*Edit, forgot about the Vive for a second. I think I'd prefer that, so I'll just wait for both to release and then compare.

[WiiManic]

*snip*

 

I've just updated the original post, both with a comment from the founder on a lack of price, but related to you an article from a few months ago talking about why the Rift is going to be more than $350 USD. 

 

For people worried about the pricing, you can always wait. Next generations should be cheaper, and with new technologies coming when the hardware is ready, the requirements for the machines to run it should also go down. VR is going to be a more niche hobby for a while, until the machines to run it and the headsets themselves are cheaper. 

[Guest Kloaked]

HTC Vive has me more hyped than the Facebook Rift. And this tells us practically nothing new, not even the actual release date. Wednesday will be interesting, that's all I got.

Why would you go for the HTC one over Occulus? Just curious.

[Sakkura]

Why would you go for the HTC one over Occulus? Just curious.

 

Same or very similar display, better motion tracking, less unnecessary hardware bundled with it (increasing the price), less focus on exclusives, and it's affiliated with Steam rather than Facebook.

[Thony]

My body is ready but my PC not at all  

[Davehaslanded]

Can't remember the last time I was this excited for new tech.

I put off buying a DK2 simply because I didn't want to deal with all the tinkering and wanted to wait for native support.