Oculus Rift Consumer Edition Pre-Order now Live!

[Chasem121]

Looks like Vive will be the one chosen, as it will likely to be cheaper.

 

As for why I'm saying that, I found that this had good points.

 

 

Rift: 300 custom parts, all requiring molds, tooling, materials, created by external companies and assembled on a single line. Absurdly expensive packaging, matte black heavy box with custom molded casing. High Quality IR camera, look up how much it costs to manufacture a GoPro. Tack on an xbox controller (probably not much but it adds) and this little guy again not much but its something. Comes from silicon valley. Results in a cost higher than you're expecting.

 

Vive: Manufactured with cheaper parts, cheaper materials, manufacturing lines that are owned by the company making it in freaking Taiwan. The lighthouses are just two motors, two lasers, LED board, single photodiode, power cable... they cost almost nothing to make. Controllers are a bit expensive but since they're ambidextrous they only need one set of molds. They don't need to subsidize development costs since that has already been handled for them. They don't need to subsidize software since thats already been done for them. All they have to do is what valve says and what their industrial designers say.

 

[AMaleWhale]

New tech is always expensive on launch. Give it 6 months to a year and wait until some competition rolls out. The price will go down. 

 

I have a feeling that it will be some sort of cartel-ish situation though, like the vive coming out at the exactly same price or something. Oculus was supposed to be the "open" and "indie" version keeping it cheap, but the Mark Zuckerberg was all like "I want in on that, fo shizzle" and sent that idea to the trash. 

 

TL;DR price probably won't drop on VR for atleast ~4-5 years if you ask me, but I sure do hope I'm wrong.

 

 

Something entirely unrelated: Anyone know why it gets so much more expensive in EUR? Because currently 599 USD = 555 euros, yet the store price is 699 euros. And then ofcourse shipping is probably more expensive to europe as well. I'll probably get someone I know in the US to buy it for me and ship it over or something, because that is a big price difference.

[LAwLz]

Holy shit I just saw the price in Euro and Pounds. What the hell were they smoking when they came up with those prices?

It costs 500 British pounds or 700 Euro plus shipping. I thought the US price was way too high but the EU prices are insane.

[Octagoncow]

If my computer were more powerful, I'd buy it with a little regret on the price. But, my 670 wouldn't work well at all. I plan on building a new computer in the next few months so I'll probably get the Oculus in the fall or something once I have a better idea of what the experience is like, and I have a computer that can handle it.

[alamox]

If my computer were more powerful, I'd buy it with a little regret on the price. But, my 670 wouldn't work well at all. I plan on building a new computer in the next few months so I'll probably get the Oculus in the fall or something once I have a better idea of what the experience is like, and I have a computer that can handle it.

keep in mind those are the recomended requirement, not minimum, so it would still work on your rig for basicaly most games as long as you have the USB ports(or buy a USB header for 20 bucks), although i dont think there will be games any time soon

the requirement cited by oculus is to allow you kind of flawless experience, even with demanding games, and i know alot of ppl are getting mixed up with this, especialy when you have other vendors trying to sell stuff confusing ppl at the same time, get our Nvidia VR ready PC, only at Origin PC....

[Praesi]

I wait for Reviews and Games that support it. And what Valve will offer. I dont spend 600€ just to see a better Release 6 Months later.

[Octagoncow]

keep in mind those are the recomended requirement, not minimum, so it would still work on your rig for basicaly most games as long as you have the USB ports(or buy a USB header for 20 bucks), although i dont think there will be games any time soon

the requirement cited by oculus is to allow you kind of flawless experience, even with demanding games, and i know alot of ppl are getting mixed up with this, especialy when you have other vendors trying to sell stuff confusing ppl at the same time, get our Nvidia VR ready PC, only at Origin PC....

That's a very fair point, but I don't want to have to bump down my settings a bunch to have it run at the highest frame rate.

Maybe a better way to phrase my thoughts would have been to say that I don't want to spend $600 to have a suboptimal experience on my desktop and have it ruin my VR experience. My 670 isn't a bad card by any means, but it can struggle keeping games at higher settings and 60fps constantly. I'd rather just wait till I have a better system even if the price on the Oculus doesn't go down at all.

I really hope this all made sense. I'm typing this on my phone.

[TopDollar]

40% increase sure, but this is a 100% increase.

 

A 40% increase would have been 420 bucks, which I'd have been fine with. I was expecting 450-500 after Luckey indicated the price would be "a little higher" than what they had aimed for.

Well, 70% increase actually based on Oculus's statement in October saying the price would be higher than $350. I accidently calculated the increase to $500, not $600, so that's where the 40% came from, my mistake.

 

Either way, a company publically releasing an estimated target sale price early in the product development can be a risky move since there are a lot of unknown factors and many things can change.

[Sakkura]

Something entirely unrelated: Anyone know why it gets so much more expensive in EUR? Because currently 599 USD = 555 euros, yet the store price is 699 euros. And then ofcourse shipping is probably more expensive to europe as well. I'll probably get someone I know in the US to buy it for me and ship it over or something, because that is a big price difference.

 

 

Holy shit I just saw the price in Euro and Pounds. What the hell were they smoking when they came up with those prices?

It costs 500 British pounds or 700 Euro plus shipping. I thought the US price was way too high but the EU prices are insane.

 

@ Both: There are basically two options. Either that's their way of accounting for VAT, or they are screwing Europeans.

[KE2012]

Hmm. I think Rift may have just signed their own death certificate. With the price being set at £500 very few are going to buy it, and because of the low number of users it is not going to be profitable for developers to make VR titles without steep prices. So The thing is pricey, has few games, and what games it does have are expensive as shit.

[alamox]

Holy shit I just saw the price in Euro and Pounds. What the hell were they smoking when they came up with those prices?

It costs 500 British pounds or 700 Euro plus shipping. I thought the US price was way too high but the EU prices are insane.

 

VAT in france is 20%, so it rounds up to 660€, but because we are french we get 699€, then another 50 bucks for shipping

[EChondo]

Damn, that's way too much for my taste. Might as well wait and see what Vive has to offer. If it's around the same price or even costs more with better features I'd rather spring for the Vive.

 

Now I'm expecting around $1000 for the Vive, at least mentally preparing me for that price won't leave me in disappointment when it's announced, unlike the Rift.

 

Can't wait to see what Palmer has to say in the AMA.

[Thony]

When going through checkout it says it's coming from Oculus VR Ireland (so no import tax) and it's £499 without shipping.

Doesnt matter where it comes from, the company originates from US so overpricing for UK and EU applies

[TopWargamer]

Considering that you're getting the Rift, a couple controllers, and a couple games, the $600 price tag isn't too bad, although I really wished they would have given us the option to pre-order just the Rift.

[kameshss]

A guy asked why Oculus Rift is expensive than dev kits.

 

See what Mark Zuckerberg answered

 

[NinerL]

$600 FOR THAT? I'd rather get a small taste of 'virtual reality' by ordering a google cardboard VR headset.

[Zerreth]

Considering that you're getting the Rift, a couple controllers, and a couple games, the $600 price tag isn't too bad, although I really wished they would have given us the option to pre-order just the Rift.

 

couple controllers ? You are aware that it is shipping with a single xbox one controller and that you'll have to buy the touch controllers separately in the 2nd half of 2016 right ?

 

Also, the touch controllers will likely add another 100€ at least... (also know that the touch controllers need a second camera pole)

[EChondo]

A guy asked why Oculus Rift is expensive than dev kits.

 

See what Mark Zuckerberg answered

 

-snip-

"Comes with controller"

 

Yeah, cause that totally increases the value of the bundle by hundreds, a Xbone controller you guys got for probably pennies on the dollar and completely ignore the fact that most people probably have their own controllers already.

 

Jesus, just sell the Rift by itself; no audio, controller, remote, etc. crap.

[Clyne]

Okay i rather buy the Samsung VR instead as that's just 100 dollars and that would do fine with the VR things i would do.

[TopWargamer]

couple controllers ? You are aware that it is shipping with a single xbox one controller and that you'll have to buy the touch controllers separately in the 2nd half of 2016 right ?

 

Also, the touch controllers will likely add another 100€ at least... (also know that the touch controllers need a second camera pole)

Oh, I thought they came with it.

[Betabot]

A guy asked why Oculus Rift is expensive than dev kits.

 

See what Mark Zuckerberg answered

 

 

I think someone needs to have a chat with Mark.... Tech is meant to get cheaper over time, therefore the old dev kit would not be worth the same today as it was beforehand.

 

I don't think it should have costed this much to be honest, but I can see why it is this much.

 

I, like many others believe they should have just sold the main unit by itself. Most gamers that have a system good enough to power this, will have a controller and decent headphones. Taking that into account the ~$1100 (AUD) is ridiculous. At most it should have been around the ~$800 mark in my opinion.

 

$132 for shipping is also ridiculous.

[Jamdude]

Doesnt matter where it comes from, the company originates from US so overpricing for UK and EU applies

Why do people always think that?  The UK price is always almost exactly the same as the US price.  Oculus Rift is $600 without tax, change that to GBP and you get £410, add VAT and you're at £492.  It's the same with every other piece of hardware.

[alexstahp]

Okay i rather buy the Samsung VR instead as that's just 100 dollars and that would do fine with the VR things i would do.

 

You mean the Gear VR which may be $100 if you forget to include the price of S6/edge/edge+ / note 5 which are all like $600+ anyway (i'm not american so i'm assuming that price) 

[Majestic]

 

tee-hee, he uses the same argument I used.  In so many words.

 

This pricing makes the adoptation of VR and support for it a long-term process.

[Clyne]

You mean the Gear VR which may be $100 if you forget to include the price of S6/edge/edge+ / note 5 which are all like $600+ anyway (i'm not american so i'm assuming that price) 

Most of us would actually check the requirements before buying the product....

I own a Note 5 and it's fine for me, heard that the rift uses a Note 3 screen or was that a few years ago.