All preorder bundles of the headset will include the Rift VR headset with built-in microphone and headphones, a sensor, the Oculus Remote and an Xbox One controller. Oculus offers a downloadable tool for checking compatibility in its blog post announcing the Rift’s $599 price. But, clearly, enough people are willing to jump in at that price because they believe in what Oculus is selling.
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Oculus has officially opened up the flood-gates on pre-order for the Rift, though the price-point is somewhat steeper than originally expected, with a tag of approximately $599. Oculus Rift DK2 was one of the first VR headsets to support SteamVR. Though, given the beefy PC specs required to run modern PC games in VR, it’s highly likely that the Oculus Rift’s price won’t be an issue for early adopters.
Two games will be included free of charge, Lucky’s Tale, a Super Mario-like game and Eve: Valkyrie, a space dogfighting game.
Initial Oculus Rift preorders are going to set you back about $600.
Those who backed the Oculus Rift on Kickstarter pledged $300 or more to obtain a development kit of the VR hardware.
Pre-orders began Wednesday morning for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. This barely scrapes the promised Q1 2016 release which is also pretty close to the expected release of the consumer version of the HTC Vive in April.
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Oculus says that users can expect dozens of full-length AAA titles to become available through 2015, including Minecraft, Rockband VR and Crysis developer Crytek’s The Climb.
