And this year at least 20 games are expected to be available at the Oculus Store.
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And finally, what kind of rig will I need for an Oculus Rift setup?
Well, that changes now.
The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality head-mounted display headset developed by Oculus VR. “Credit card processing is trying to stay livr [sic] under load from mass script kiddie fraud attempts”, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey tweeted less than half an hour after Oculus Rift preorders went live.
However, the price tag of $600 is rather steep, especially if you throw in the fact that you need to have a decent Windows PC to use the Oculus Rift to begin with. However, if you pre-order the Oculus Rift now, they will automatically move you up the queue for being on the waiting list for the Oculus Touch. Oculus has also revealed that they are selling the Rift at a loss in order to entice people to the platform. Still, the hardware in its current configuration seems to be worth its money – after all, this is a premium device with some powerful hardware behind it, and requires a beast of a PC to properly run.
The Facebook-owned company has opened pre-orders for the headset, which will cost £499.
The Rift comes with built-in headphones and mic, sensor and an Xbox One controller. Some of the workers left the company after Oculus was acquired by Facebook.
Luckey will host an online Reddit AMA (ask me anything) forum at 6 p.m. today.
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The VR headsets are to be released in waves. The Rift VR system is an all-in-one integrated unit that includes dual low-persistence AMOLED displays that are designed for virtual reality activities. But just newly added to rest of the package is the Oculus Remote, useful to easily navigating through the VR interface.
