Starting February 16th, you’ll be able to pre-order an “Oculus Ready” PC bundled with a Rift headset.
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Oculus Rift manufacturer Oculus, has today announced the first batch of Oculus Ready PCs alongside Oculus Rift bundles.
The price point for the bundles creates a lot of separation from the $99 Samsung Gear VR headset that Oculus helped build, which runs on a Samsung Galaxy phone that costs around $600.
The bundles – which come from ASUS, Alienware and Dell – will include an Oculus Rift, a sensor, an Xbox One controller and two free games, including Lucky’s Tale and EVE:Valkyrie Founder’s Pack. That makes the Rift bundle about twice as expensive.
This announcement gives us a much clearer idea of how much people will have to pay to actually use the Rift, which sells without a PC for $599. An Intel i5-6400 seems to be the CPU of choice, and NVIDIA’s GTX 970 is the most popular GPU.
Folks who’ve already pre-ordered the headset can get discounts if they just need the computer. Asus and Alienware also offer a few Oculus Ready options somewhere in the middle of the price/power continuum. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Best Buy, Amazon, and the Microsoft Store will all start taking pre-orders on Rift-and-PC bundles starting on February 16, ahead of shipping to “select countries” in April (Best Buy now lists an April 23 ship date). The Oculus Ready line should also provide an easy, “all-in” solution for eager virtual reality early adopters that have more curiosity than hardware-building prowess. One would imagine that these machines will ship out sooner, rather than later.
