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Oculus Rift Consumer Edition Pre-Order now Live!

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Yesterday (GMT) January 5th Oculus released a video were they announced the next day january 6th at 17:00 CET the Oculus pre-orders would be launching.

And a day later (Today) the pre-orders have gone live !

 

 

The rift comes bundled with EVE: Valkyrie and Lucky's tale

and also comes with a Xbox one controller, small (removable) headset , A sensor for movement,Cables Oculus remote and the Oculus rift ofcourse ;)

Note: Oculus will release the Oculus touch controllers at a later date.

 

The Oculus rift has a 2160 X 1200 OLED screen with room for glasses in the headset.

 

The Oculus rift is expected to ship in March 2016

and the price is 600$ Dollars or region equivalent + tax.

and not to mention that these prices are without tax and shipping.

 

Recommended Specifications: 

AMD R9 290 / Nvidia GTX 970

Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater

8GB of Ram

A HDMI 1.3 Video output

3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 ports (lol)

WIndows 7 SP1 64 BIT or newer

 

These specs oculus says will run the oculus rift without problems and said these specifications will "never" change.

 

EDIT 1: Since the oculus pre-order got availeble a lot of people have ordered it and now the expected ship date has being increased to June 2016.

 

Source: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/

 

For lols: http://bit.ly/1ZNOiXk

 

On 11/19/2014 at 2:14 PM, Syntaxvgm said:
You would think Ubisoft would support the Bulldozer based architectures more given their digging themed names like bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
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yikes I was gonna buy one originally but it's out of my price range atm...and 600$ is way more than I thought it would cost

muh specs 

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source: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/

 

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knowing you need a pretty powerful system to drive this thing .. oh boy

nah, I won't bet on VR succeeding, not in this decade - it will become the afterthought SONY's 3D has become

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the minimum recommended system build price starts at ~950$

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That's way more than I expected. I was looking at $400-$500. If this is that much then I'm scared for the HTC Vive. I thought oculus said they'd make it affordable. I should have backed for a dev kit. It was half this price and we get a free one.

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£500?!  :o

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It's £500!  :o

12600k | MSI MEG S280 | SSUPD Meshilicious | Asus ROG STRIX Z690-I | Crucial 16GB 4800MHz CL38 | MSI Gaming 980Ti | CM V850 SFX | WD SN850 1TB, WD SN550 1TB 
Pi 4TB NAS | Asus VG27AQ, Asus PB278Q | Logitech G Pro X Superlight | Glorious G-HXL-STEALTH | Keychron K4 V2 | Sennheiser HD 599 w/ Fiio E10
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$850 Canadian is too steep for me to justify an order without reviews first. Bummer.

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That's way more than I expected. I was looking at $400-$500. If this is that much then I'm scared for the HTC Vive. I thought oculus said they'd make it affordable. I should have backed for a dev kit. It was half this price and we get a free one.

Oculus said it would EVENTUALLY be affordable.

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holy shit, that`s expensive as fuck, I don`t see any reason why a couple of small features would make it THAT expensive

to game or not to game, that`s the question

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Looks like this video just became relevant again:

 

 

But seriously, HTC/Valve would be foolish to at least not try to undercut that price.

wow, xD

 

On 11/19/2014 at 2:14 PM, Syntaxvgm said:
You would think Ubisoft would support the Bulldozer based architectures more given their digging themed names like bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
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Was definitely planning on buying one, but for $600... No thanks........ 

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Oculus said it would EVENTUALLY be affordable.

I just don't understand why it's so expensive. It doesn't seem like a whole lot. Dk2 was like $350 right? Not a whole lot has changed as far as I'm aware.

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People are willing to pay that much money for smartphones, so if you think of it that way... it's not that crazy.
And a few years from now this price will come down.

However, too much for me right now considering I'd need a PC upgrade as well to even use the thing.

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holy shit, that`s expensive as fuck, I don`t see any reason why a couple of small features would make it THAT expensive

R&D costs I guess?

 

The thing has been in development for a hell of a long time.

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I just don't understand why it's so expensive. It doesn't seem like a whole lot. Dk2 was like $350 right? Not a whole lot has changed as far as I'm aware.

Cos you know, development kits are always cheaper to help production and development of software.  Has been true for everything ever IMHO.

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It's too early to tell how things will progress given that VR is going to be having its starting run this year (and will most probably start a new trend in how games are made)

 

We'll have to wait for competitors to judge whether it's worth it or not.

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With this price, I'm very scared VR will fail. I was very optimistic for VR but God, who the hell is going to pay for this. AAA VR games will have trouble even turning a profit.

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Here in Italy it's 700 euros. Yeah, not happening. I'm not convinced it's overpriced, simply because I have nothing to compare it against, but it's definitely more money than I'm willing to spend on it. Maybe gen 2.

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People are willing to pay that much money for smartphones, so if you think of it that way... it's not that crazy.

And a few years from now this price will come down.

However, too much for me right now considering I'd need a PC upgrade as well to even use the thing.

you shouldn't compare the price of a device with the price of a peripheral. not to mention a lot of people get a phone on contract not upfront. this is very expensive for a supposed consumer product.

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source: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/

 

COwve58.png

JR0uAVL.png

knowing you need a pretty powerful system to drive this thing .. oh boy

nah, I won't bet on VR succeeding, not in this decade - it will become the afterthought SONY's 3D has become

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the minimum recommended system build price starts at ~950$

 

 

290s are dirt cheap now though

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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